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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 30 August 2006 Government soldiers patrol on the Mavilaaru reservoir tank bank in Mavilaaru, close to Muttur, Sri Lanka, Monday, August 28, 2006 International ceasefire monitors have blamed the Sri Lankan military for the
By Suzanne Presto New Delhi 24 January 2007 A leading human-rights group says Sri Lanka's government is ignoring a militant group's use of child soldiers and forced conscripts in battles against Tamil rebels. VOA's Suzanne Presto in New Delhi report
By Suzanne Presto New Delhi 22 January 2007 Displaced ethnic Tamils at a government camp in Kiran, Sri Lanka, 21 Jan 2007 Sri Lanka's military says it is driving out Tamil Tiger rebels from key areas in the island's east, following intense fighting.
Sri Lanka's government says it has no faith in a unilateral cease-fire declared by rebel Tamil Tigers for the duration of a South Asian leader's summit. Fighting is continuing in the north while a security blanket is being thrown over the capital to
The Sri Lankan government has turned down a truce offered by Tamil Tiger rebels as the military presses on with an offensive to capture a key rebel stronghold. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha reports the government hopes to crush the rebels, who hav
Sri Lanka's rebels have announced they would be laying down their guns to prevent what they call further unnecessary slaughter of Tamil civilians by government troops. The island nation's military says it has defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
The quarter-century civil war in Sri Lanka has come to a dramatic end. The army has apparently wiped out the entire leadership of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, including the leader who founded the rebel group. Ror the first time in 26 years,
Sri Lanka's military victory over a 26-year long insurgency has come at a high cost to the nation's economy. With the war over, many Sri Lankans are now turning their attention to rebuilding the country's battered economy. Sri Lankan street hawker s
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 23 October 2009 UN envoy Walter Kalin (C) arrives at a camp for displaced in Vavuniya, north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 25 Sep 2009 Over the coming weeks, the Sri Lankan government plans to release nearly 40,000 ethnic
Sri Lankan officials say the new leader of the vanquished Tamil Tiger rebels is in their custody following his arrest in an undisclosed South East Asian country. Details of the rebel leader's arrest are, so far, unclear. But it is a blow to efforts
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 May 2007 Newly arrived internally displaced ethnic Tamils prepare themselves to be registered with camp officials in Kiran, Sri Lanka (File Photo) The World Food Program warns renewed fighting in Sri Lanka's long-running civ
By Steve Herman New Delhi 14 December 2007 Sri Lanka has been calling in foreign diplomats to express what the Foreign Ministry calls its deep displeasure over remarks by the diplomats' countries about the Sri Lankan human rights situation. VOA corre
By Steve Herman New Delhi 15 October 2007 Sri Lanka is defending its decision to reject a call by a top U.N. envoy for an international mission to monitor human rights on the divided island nation. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delh
By Steve Herman New Delhi 09 November 2009 Sri Lanka Minister of Public Administration Home Affairs, Sarath Amunugama, at World Economic Forum's India summit, 09 Nov 2009 Sri Lanka plans to pour development money into Tamil-dominated provinces that
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 14 June 2007 A foreign aid worker has been shot by navy troops in northeastern Sri Lanka, where the government is battling Tamil rebels. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, concerns about security of aid workers ar
The government is to set up a new city in the proposed China-Sri Lanka Industrial Zone in the Hambantota district it is learnt. 据悉,政府将在汉班托塔地区规划中的中国-斯里兰卡工业园建一座新城。 Chinese Ambassador Yi Xi
In cricket, South Africa has cruised into the semi-finals after a crushing victory over Sri-Lanka. The South African side dismissed Sri Lanka for 133 and then took just 18 overs to knock off the runs for the loss of one wicket. AB De Villiers lauded
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 18 September 2009 A boy stands in a Menik Farm displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (May 2009 file photo) Sri Lanka has pledged to send home nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils being held in refugee camps. The assuranc
Sri Lanka's government is ordering the spokesman for the U.N. Children's Fund to leave the country. Our correspondent reports the expulsion stems from comments by the official that appeared in the international media in recent months. Sri Lanka The