Wild elephants hold up Sri Lanka vote: police
March 10, 2008 (AFP) - Security forces armed with loud hailers were deployed in eastern Sri Lanka Monday to drive away wild elephants blocking access to …
March 10, 2008 (AFP) - Security forces armed with loud hailers were deployed in eastern Sri Lanka Monday to drive away wild elephants blocking access to …
Mar 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Free Media Movement (FMM) expressed concern over the arrest of several journalists connected to a news website and …
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka, March 9, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's restive east will hold local elections on Monday against a backdrop of fear, even though Tamil Tiger …
March 9, 2008 (AFP) - At least 56 Tamil Tiger rebels and four government troops have been killed in heavy fighting across Sri Lanka's embattled north over the …
March 7, 2008 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan Tamil columnist was detained by police Friday while the authorities were also trying to arrest another media activist, a …
March 8, 2008 (AFP) - At least one soldier was killed and two others critically wounded in southern Sri Lanka Saturday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside …
COLOMBO, March 7, 2008 (AFP) - At least 42 Tiger rebels and five government troops were killed in fresh fighting across Sri Lanka's embattled north, where a …
March 5, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka said Wednesday that 100 of its soldiers were killed and a further 800 wounded fighting the Tamil Tigers last month, showing the …
COLOMBO, March 6, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is one of the world's worst perpetrators of "disappearances" and abductions, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling …
COLOMBO, March 6, 2008 (AFP) - A top foreign panel invited by Sri Lanka to observe investigations into human rights abuses announced Thursday it was quitting …
Mar 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan troops have captured a Tamil Tiger held town in the northwestern Mannar area of the island as part of a bid to cut off a …
March 6, 2008 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan Tamil lawmaker and his driver were killed Thursday in a roadside bomb attack that his party and Tamil Tiger rebels said was …
March 05, 2008 (LBO) – Media rights group Reporters Without Borders has condemned attacks against Sri Lankan journalists who exposed by live broadcast an …
Mar 05, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan civil society groups Wednesday warned that the government's contempt for the rule of law and the constitution was …
Mar 05, 2008 (LBO) – A librarian working for a Sri Lanka state television station where a junior minister was held hostage after he stormed its newsroom …
March 4, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan forces pushed deeper into Tamil Tiger territory in an offensive that has left at least 69 guerrillas and nine government …
March 03, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lankan naval vessels have been deployed to intercept a suspicious vessel 150 nautical miles off the island's eastern coast, the …
COLOMBO, March 3, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's navy on Monday rescued 71 Myanmar and Bangladeshi survivors adrift in the Indian Ocean after 20 people died aboard …
March 3, 2008 (AFP) - Artillery exchanges between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger separatists across the embattled tropical island's north left at least 25 …
March 2, 2008 (AFP) - A government soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack carried out by Tamil Tiger guerrillas Sunday in northern Sri Lanka, the army …