Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Sri Lanka offers cash to families of civil war dead

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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will pay small sums to the families of people who were killed or went missing in the carnage of the island nation’s decade-long civil war, authorities announced Tuesday. Successive Sri Lankan governments have faced international censure over the conflict, which ended in 2009 after the collapse of the minority Tamil separatist movement’s armed wing. … Read more

UN Mandated To Gather Evidence Of “War Crimes” In Sri Lanka

UN Mandated To Gather Evidence Of "War Crimes" In Sri Lanka

GENEVA: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has been given the mandate to gather and preserve information and evidence about Sri Lanka’s long civil war-related crimes. According to the report, the long civil war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. The group’s UK resolution was … Read more