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Advocacy Associate Kavita Shukla visited Sri Lanka in December. The majority of the population in Sri Lanka is Sinhalese Buddhist. The Tamils, who are dominant in the northern and eastern parts of the country, form the biggest minority on the…

The food for work program that was launched by World Vision Lanka in November 2004 has progressed over the past month involving nearly 260 participants from five villages in Killinochchi North of Sri Lanka. The work involves clearing of land…

Refugees International assessed the situation for Sri Lankan refugees in India in December. Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka began fleeing to India in 1983 when violence broke out in their country between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamil militant…

By Scott McDonald COLOMBO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Tamil Tiger rebels warned on Monday that a political fight between Sri Lanka's president and prime minister threatened a ceasefire that has held for two years, the longest period of peace…

By Scott McDonald COLOMBO, (Reuters) - Diplomats will try to boost humanitarian aid for Sri Lanka this week despite a political fight between the president and prime minister that has sidelined the island's peace process. Yasushi Akashi, Japan's special envoy to Sri…

State's Bloomfield pledges continued U.S. global efforts to remove mines Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Lincoln Bloomfield Jr. announced the donation of six mine detecting dogs to the Sri Lankan government, thanks to contributions from corporate and private U.S.…

Japan has granted funding to clear land mines from a former war-zone in Sri Lanka's embattled north. The Japan Centre for Conflict Prevention says it's given 751-thousand US dollars by the Japanese government for demining work near the town of…

NEWS ANALYSIS By Anthony David Colombo (dpa) - Chances of Sri Lanka resolving its 20-year-old minority ethnic conflict are fading in the wake of a severe political crisis that halted a two-year-old internationally-backed peace process. The peace process, which included…

COLOMBO, Jan 11, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels said that they will continue to abide by the ceasefire agreement they signed with the government in February 2002 despite Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's statement that…

Nearly two years since a cease-fire was called in the long-running civil war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan army, as many as 400,000 people remain displaced within the country. The peace established in…