Politics

Sri Lanka facing crisis over ‘disappearances’: rights group

COLOMBO, March 6, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is one of the world's worst perpetrators of "disappearances" and abductions, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling …

International rights panel quits Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, March 6, 2008 (AFP) - A top foreign panel invited by Sri Lanka to observe investigations into human rights abuses announced Thursday it was quitting …

Sri Lanka troops enter northeastern township: military

Mar 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan troops have captured a Tamil Tiger held town in the northwestern Mannar area of the island as part of a bid to cut off a …

Roadside bomb kills Sri Lankan Tamil MP: party

March 6, 2008 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan Tamil lawmaker and his driver were killed Thursday in a roadside bomb attack that his party and Tamil Tiger rebels said was …

Sri Lanka television worker slashed with razor

Mar 05, 2008 (LBO) – A librarian working for a Sri Lanka state television station where a junior minister was held hostage after he stormed its newsroom …

Sri Lanka intimidation of journalists condemned by rights group

March 05, 2008 (LBO) – Media rights group Reporters Without Borders has condemned attacks against Sri Lankan journalists who exposed by live broadcast an …

Sri Lanka drifting towards dictatorship: civil society

Mar 05, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan civil society groups Wednesday warned that the government's contempt for the rule of law and the constitution was …

Sri Lankan forces push into Tiger territory: defence ministry

March 4, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan forces pushed deeper into Tamil Tiger territory in an offensive that has left at least 69 guerrillas and nine government …

Sri Lanka Navy probes suspicious vessel: military

March 03, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lankan naval vessels have been deployed to intercept a suspicious vessel 150 nautical miles off the island's eastern coast, the …

Sri Lanka rescues migrants adrift after 20 perish

COLOMBO, March 3, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's navy on Monday rescued 71 Myanmar and Bangladeshi survivors adrift in the Indian Ocean after 20 people died aboard …

Sri Lanka artillery battles kill 27: defence ministry

March 3, 2008 (AFP) - Artillery exchanges between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger separatists across the embattled tropical island's north left at least 25 …

Soldier killed in Sri Lanka blast, says army

March 2, 2008 (AFP) - A government soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack carried out by Tamil Tiger guerrillas Sunday in northern Sri Lanka, the army …

Sri Lanka mediaman threatened by gangsters; errant minister runs free: rights body

Mar 01, 2008 (LBO) – Another mediaman who filmed a confrontation between state TV workers and a minister who stormed the station's newsroom has been …

Sri Lanka says another 45 Tigers killed as blast toll climbs

March 1, 2008 (AFP) - A police officer wounded in a suicide bombing died in hospital Saturday, a hospital spokesman said as Sri Lanka's defence ministry …

Sri Lanka blast a suicide bombing: military

Feb 29, 2008 (LBO) - A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber triggered a bomb during a search operation in Colombo's Kotahena area and a pistol and ammunition had been …

Sri Lanka troops find three suicide jackets following blast

Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday injuring seven people as police moved in to search his house in the Sri Lankan …

Blast rocks Sri Lanka capital: police

Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - A powerful explosion ripped through a house in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo early Friday, police said, adding that at least seven people …

Sri Lanka bomb blast injures seven

Feb 28, 2008 (LBO) – A bomb exploded during a search operation in the Kotahena area of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo Friday morning, injuring four police …

Nine die in Sri Lanka fighting

Feb 28, 2008 (AFP) - Two bombs left at least eight civilians dead in guerrilla-held territory in northern Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels said Thursday as the defence …

Sri Lanka military says 41 killed in fresh fighting

Feb 25, 2008 (AFP) - At least 36 Tamil Tiger guerrillas and five Sri Lankan government soldiers have been killed in fresh fighting in and around rebel-held …