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Tamil people take part in a commemoration ceremony in Mullivaikkal village in the Mullaitivu district in northern Sri Lanka on May 18, 2024, to remember victims of the civil war. | Photo Credit: AFP Wars do not end neatly on the battlefield, as the lives of Tamils in Sri Lanka’s north and east make evident….
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Early this year, a new report from the United Nation’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on conflict-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka, during and after the civil war put the spotlight on one of its most traumatic consequences. Many survivors of the conflict that ended in 2009 continue to suffer “chronic…
When Antony Jesurathnam Mariapushparani, 62, recalls the horrific final days of Sri Lanka’s civil war in striking detail, it is hard to believe it has been 15 years since its end. “That is where we prepared and had the kanji (porridge); that is where we headed to cross the Vattuvagal bridge; that is where we…
Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe. | Photo Credit: Reuters The escalating tensions in Gaza have come under sharp focus in Sri Lanka, an island nation that is struggling to get out of its own devastating civil war, nearly 15 years after it ended. While President Ranil Wickremesinghe recently called for a “four-state” solution involving Israel,…
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