In 2021, the Sri Lankan Army became the unlikely vanguard of a supposed green revolution, resulting in a radical redefinition ...

Instability in Sri Lanka’s mainstream politics was exacerbated by a revolt within the LTTE in early March 2004. Led by its chief military commander in the east, V. Muralitharan, known by his nom ...

Amid the background of political unrest ... important new addition to the writings from and about Sri Lanka in the time of the Civil War, and notable in having women at its center.

The West slams Pakistan and China for supplying arms used by Sri Lanka in alleged war crimes against Tamils during the civil war but is silent on Israel’s complicity. The report said Rajapaksa ...

The Sri Lankan government has now received intelligence reports of attempts to propagate extremist ideologies within the Muslim population in the Eastern Province. Most of such activities have been ...

But there is a reason why the Israeli soldiers referred to the war that is on a tenuous pause for the moment because of a ceasefire. In Sri Lanka, as in many other parts of the world, they are no ...

It wasn’t until after the end of the civil war in 2009 when the government defeated the Tamil Tigers—a separatist group seeking an autonomous state within Sri Lanka—that the economy started ...

After more than 20 years of war, in February 2002 the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam signed a ceasefire agreement. Barriers to travel, dialogue, and understanding ...

Even the terrors and travails of the recent pandemic are being forgotten. When it comes to Sri Lanka’s civil war, which lasted three decades and ended only in 2009, so much is now forgotten.

The meagre wage rises announced in the budget, which do not compensate for soaring inflation, are in line with the IMF’s ...