Speaking in Parliament some days later Shanakiyan complimented the people of Batticaloa for having defied the overall voting pattern in the country The person chiefly responsible for the eastern ...

Sri Lanka's President Dissanayake promises talks on a new Constitution and Provincial Council elections, urging collaboration ...

Wives, mothers and sisters of the victims of "enforced disappearances" will not lose hope. In 1990, the military in Batticaloa took 156 men to "bring them to safe areas" but they never returned.

Dairy farmers have been protesting for 74 days against a group of Sinhala outsiders who have seized their land by force. A court ruling in the dairy farmers’ favour is still not being enforced. “These ...

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has condemned the 31 May 2004 murder of Tamil journalist Aiyathurai Nadesan in Batticaloa (220 km east of Colombo) and voiced concern that dissension within the Tamil separatist ...

BATTICALOA, SRI LANKA, February 7, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Military troops based in Ampara in the Eastern Province have attacked and severely damaged a bus ...

Seven Tamil journalists based in Sri Lanka’s military-occupied Eastern Province have been threatened with death. The threats were issued in Tamil-language leaflets that were slid under the door of the ...

Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels hurled a hand grenade into the office of a rival Tamil group yesterday in Sri Lanka's east, killing one person and wounding four others, officials said. Suspected Tamil ...

Four military men killed in Batticaloa A Tamil guerrilla suicide bomber blew himself up in eastern Sri Lanka killing four military intelligence men and injuring at least 10 others as rebels stepped up ...