Lanka President Sirisena vows to eradicate LTTE ideology completely
• 9 years agoSri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has vowed to "eradicate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ideology" locally and globally.
Sri Lankan Prez Sirisena calls for unity in I-Day speech, Modi tweets in Sinhalese
Fp Archives • 10 years agoSri Lanka's president says country has not been able to unite the hearts and minds of ethnic groups despite ending a decades-old civil war five years ago.
Australia relents, temporarily allows SL asylum seekers ashore
Fp Archives • 11 years agoTwo boats of Sri Lankans were intercepted by Australia's border patrol in the Indian Ocean in late June.
Australia admits handing over Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lankan govt
Fp Archives • 11 years agoThere were claims that Australia could be breaking international law by screening them at sea and returning them involuntarily to a country in which they had a well-founded fear of persecution.
Communal violence in SL again: Sinhala - Muslim riots kill 3
Fp Staff • 11 years agoThe tensions between Sinhalese and Muslim groups was reported from the Aluthgama and Beruwala areas of Southern Sri Lanka, and are believed to have occurred following an inciteful speech by anti- Muslim Sinhalese extremist group the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)
Tamils in Jaffna want army occupation to end
Fp Archives • 11 years agoFour years after Sri Lanka's army crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrilla army and ended a civil war that had lasted nearly three decades, Tamils say they are blatantly repressed in Jaffna, the capital of this Indian Ocean island's northern peninsula.
Sri Lanka's TNA headed for clean sweep in historic Northern poll
Fp Archives • 12 years agoThe win provides a platform for the party to campaign for an autonomous federal state, although the provincial council is a largely toothless body.
Sri Lanka appoints panel to investigate mass grave in south
Fp Archives • 12 years agoConstruction workers found the grave last December at a state-run hospital in Matale, about 105 kilometers (65 miles), northeast of the capital, Colombo. The skeletons were buried in neat rows, five or six stacked on top of one another.
Google Drive gets support for 18 new languages; Urdu, Nepali included
Anuradha • 12 years agoGoogle Drive has been updated, with the addition of 18 new languages. Now considering how widely ...