Women clear Sri Lanka’s landmine legacy
MANNAR, October 5, 2010 (AFP) - Valmathi Jegadas is a different sort of mine clearer to the testosterone-fuelled explosives specialists portrayed in the 2008 …
MANNAR, October 5, 2010 (AFP) - Valmathi Jegadas is a different sort of mine clearer to the testosterone-fuelled explosives specialists portrayed in the 2008 …
BERLIN, August 31, 2010 (AFP) - German prosecutors said Tuesday they had charged three men suspected of fundraising and buying weapons for the Sri Lankan …
August 17, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's powerful defence chief Tuesday staunchly defended the government's human rights record, saying troops suffered heavy losses …
August 3, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops arrested over 1,500 Tamil rebel suspects during July, more than a year after the separatist guerrilla group was …
GENEVA, August 1, 2010 (AFP) - A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, …
June 24, 2010 (AFP) - An explosion ripped through a commercial area of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo on Thursday, wounding at least nine people, police said. …
June 11, 2010 (LBO) - Ways to counter terrorism and terrorist financing which is becoming increasingly sophisticated were discussed at a meeting of South Asian …
June 8, 2010 (AFP) - Tamil Tiger rebels are re-emerging a year after their defeat, Sri Lanka's prime minister said Tuesday, despite the once-powerful guerrilla …
June 7, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's top defence official has threatened to hang the country's former army chief if he cooperates with any investigation into war …
May 25, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka on Tuesday closed a camp holding former Tamil Tiger child soldiers, but 52 of the youths will stay in government care to …
May 20, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka must strengthen its intelligence-gathering to stop Tamil Tiger rebels regrouping abroad a year after they were defeated, a top …
May 16, 2010 (AFP) - One year after Sri Lanka's army wiped out the Tamil Tigers, there are no signs of the rebel group's revival at home, but concerns remain …
May 4, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's foreign minister pledged Tuesday that the country's tough emergency laws introduced in 1983 to fight a raging Tamil insurgency …
KUALA LUMPUR, April 23, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysia said it has arrested and deported several leaders of the Sri Lankan separatist Tamil Tiger rebels over the past …
RAGAMA, April 18, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's leaders have hailed the end of the island's long civil war as the start of a new era, but for soldiers injured in …
April 17, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's military and the US Navy and conducted joint exercises on disaster readiness and medical response in the Eastern port city …
April 5, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's military on Monday announced a fivefold increase in troops deployed on UN peacekeeping duties around the world, boosting its …
Feb 07, 2010 (LBO) - A 300 million US dollar credit line to be wrapped up during an official visit by Sri Lanka's President Mahindra Rajapaksa to Russia, would …
February 1, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president on Monday sacked 12 senior military officers over what one army source said were fears of a coup after last …
January 7, 2010 (AFP) - The elderly father of Sri Lanka's slain Tamil rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has died in military custody, officials said …