Sri Lanka backtracks on opposition to French FM
May 24, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka distanced itself Thursday from opposition to Bernard Kouchner, who was named by the European Union to monitor human rights on …
May 24, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka distanced itself Thursday from opposition to Bernard Kouchner, who was named by the European Union to monitor human rights on …
May 22, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a suspected Tamil Tiger training facility inside rebel-held territory on Tuesday, the defence ministry …
May 21, 2007 (AFP) - Four members of Sri Lanka's security forces were killed and five wounded in separate attacks by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday, …
CHENNAI, India, May 20, 2007 (AFP) - Eleven southern Indian fishermen who went missing in March returned at the weekend alleging that they had been abducted at …
May 20, 2007 (AFP) - Six people were killed and 10 others were wounded as government troops traded fire with Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's war-torn north, …
May 20, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil rebels on Sunday vowed never to return to peace negotiations unless the government halts a military campaign …
COLOMBO, May 19, 2007 (AFP) - Five family members, including two boys aged four and eight, were hacked to death on Saturday in a town just outside the Sri …
May 17, 2007 (AFP) - Security forces shot dead at least 20 Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka in a fresh outbreak of fighting, the defence ministry said …
COLOMBO, May 17, 2007 (AFP) - A trawler suspected of smuggling weapons, possibly for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, has been sunk by the coastguard of the …
May 16, 2007 (LBO) -- Sri Lanka Wednesday appointed Chamal Rajapakse, brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, as the new minister of ports and aviation filling …
May 16, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president vowed on Wednesday not to depend on foreign aid after Britain said it would suspend debt relief to its former colony …
May 16, 2007 (LBO) - Police has questioned a newspaper editor over reporting of the activities of the Goldquest scheme in Sri Lanka, and a subsequent …
COLOMBO, May 14, 2007 (AFP) - Eight Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fresh clashes in Sri Lanka's embattled northern and eastern regions, the defence …
May 13, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's failure to share power with minority Tamils and put an end to extra-judicial killings have raised prospects of more aid cuts …
May 13, 2007 (AFP) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Buddhist monk in eastern Sri Lanka Sunday as security forces killed five Tamil Tiger rebels elsewhere, …
May 12, 2007 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan unit of Royal Dutch Shell suffered damages of at least 700,000 dollars in an air attack by Tamil Tiger rebels last month, …
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2007 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan national pleaded guilty in a Maryland court Thursday to charges he tried to smuggle US weapons to Tamil Tiger …
May 11, 2007 (AFP) - Human Rights Watch on Friday renewed a call for independent foreign monitoring of human rights in Sri Lanka, where hundreds of people have …
May 10, 2007 (AFP) - Former Sri Lanka president Chandrika Kumaratunga has protested the withdrawal of commandos assigned to protect her, saying she was still a …
COLOMBO, May 10, 2007 (AFP) - The United States Thursday accused Sri Lanka of going back on promises to protect human rights and said the situation in the …