Police have revived a 17-year-old probe after the recent detection of explosives hidden inside a lorry used by the Tiger guerrillas during the “Eelam War”. The detection was made when the Kotahena ...

It has been eight years since the Sri Lankan civil war ended the bloody way it began with the demand for an independent Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka. Today, Eelam is heard only in the ...

"Eelam War 3" begins when rebels sink naval craft. Tigers lose Jaffna to government forces. 1995-2001 - War rages across north and east. Suicide attack on central bank in Colombo kills around 100.

‘Eelam 87’, a 143-page work, weaves through the LTTE’s revolt. CHENNAI: The civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009, but it left many unsettled. The uprising against the government, led by the ...

IT IS no longer a ceasefire riddled with violations; no longer a “low-intensity conflict”. Sri Lanka is at war in all but name, and perhaps that is what the rival armies had long intended. For ...

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Sri Lanka on Monday ordered its forces to cease using heavy weapons and jets in combat operations against Tamil Tiger rebels, but said it would continue hostage rescue operations.