Politics

Sri Lanka mine attack kills two police

Feb 11, 2008 (AFP) - Two policemen were killed in a land mine blast in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, military officials said as the defence ministry said it …

Sri Lanka army chief vows to defeat Tiger rebels

Feb 10, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's army chief again vowed to defeat Tamil separatists but refused to set a deadline for the end of the decades-old conflict, …

Sri Lanka combatants claim high casualties

Feb 9, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed on Saturday to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce …

Sri Lanka rebel lawmaker dies in car crash

Feb 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan rebel lawmaker Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi who broke away from the ruling party of President Mahinda Rajapakse last year, …

Sri Lanka says 39 Tamil Tigers killed in fresh fighting

Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops smashed bunkers of Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's embattled north and kept up attacks elsewhere leaving 39 guerrillas …

Last Sri Lankans freed as Australia dismantles Pacific detention centres

SYDNEY, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - Australia's widely criticised "Pacific Solution" policy of holding asylum seekers on remote islands ended Friday when the last …

Britain seeks ‘political process’ to end Sri Lanka bloodshed

Feb 7, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former colonial ruler Britain has called for a "political process" to end Sri Lanka's spiralling violence and condemned the …

Sri Lanka media working under fear: Amnesty

Feb 7, 2008 (AFP) - Dozens of unsolved murders, abductions, and disappearances of journalists have cast a pall on open reporting in Sri Lanka as an ethnic …

Sri Lanka says 37 Tamil Tigers killed, carries out air strikes

Feb 6, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan war planes Wednesday bombed targets inside Tamil Tiger-held territory in the north as ground forces clashed with the rebels, …

Seven Sri Lankan sailors missing after sea battle: military

Feb 5, 2008 (AFP) - Seven Sri Lankan sailors and their craft were missing on Tuesday following a sea battle with suspected Tamil Tiger guerrillas off the …

Sri Lanka stages mass funerals after Freedom Day bloodshed

Feb 5, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka staged mass funerals for bomb blast victims on Tuesday after independence day festivities were marred by a string of attacks …

Sri Lanka train station suicide bombing toll climbs to 12

Feb 3, 2008 (AFP) - A suicide bomber attacked a train at Colombo's main railway station Sunday, killing at least 12 and injuring 100 others on the eve of Sri …

Explosion in Sri Lanka capital Colombo; US condemns blasts

Feb 04, 2008 (LBO) – A bomb exploded in the Colombo suburb of Mount Lavinia Monday, the military said, as Sri Lanka marked 60 years of independence from …

Sri Lanka rail blast death toll rises to 14: hospital

Feb 4, 2008 (AFP) - The number of people killed in a suicide bombing at Sri Lanka's main railway station rose to 14 on Monday after two of the wounded died of …

Sri Lanka vows to beat Tigers, shrugs off aid threat

Feb 4, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president marked the island's 60th anniversary of independence from Britain on Monday with a vow to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels, …

Sri Lanka winning war against Tamil Tigers: president

Feb 4, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president insisted Monday his government was winning the war against Tamil Tiger rebels as the island marked its 60th …

Bomb attack Buttala, southern Sri Lanka, one dead: police

Feb 4, 2008 (AFP) - A powerful roadside bomb killed at least one soldier and wounded three others in a town in southern Sri Lanka Monday as the country marked …

Second bus bomb attack kills 10 in Sri Lanka: military

Feb 4, 2008 (AFP) - A powerful roadside bomb killed at least 10 civilians and wounded several others Monday in northeastern Sri Lanka, the day's second attack …

Sri Lanka president kicks off independence celebrations

Feb 4, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse kicked off independence celebrations at a sea-front promenade in the capital Monday under tight …

Sri Lanka blast in Colombo suburb

Feb 03, 2008 (LBO) – An explosion ripped through a suburb of the Sri Lanka capital Colombo, residents and the military said, a day after a bus bombing …