07/10/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIANS will not tolerate cruelty to animals. Less clear is our tolerance for bestiality towards people. Or so one might think from the stony silence after a British documentary aired on Australian TV last week. The film proved that Sri Lanka's ''rescue'' of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians in 2009 was a bloody and cruel affair.
05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka: In the frantic confusion of the last hours of the Tamil Tigers' war, some sought a way out. Through text messages and phone calls they offered an unconditional surrender, in return for safe passage out of the war zone.
05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
BEATEN, bloodied and with nowhere left to run, they received the text message just before 9 o'clock on the Sunday morning.
It came, through an intermediary, from the foreign secretary of the Sri Lankan government, apparent instructions for a surrender: "Just walk across to the troops, slowly. With a white flag and comply with instructions carefully. The soldiers are nervous about suicide bombers."
05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
It's two years since the civil war ended but a UN report points to the fissures that still exist, writes Ben Doherty in Sri Lanka.
05/10/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
After the war, one of the few jobs available is clearing explosives.
THE women are taking back war-torn northern Sri Lanka, one square metre at a time.
04/04/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
Recent reports of an Australian/Sri Lankan citizen's alleged involved in the commission of war crimes at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war raise once again questions about where Australia stands on the question of war crimes allegedly committed either by its citizens or by people who now live in this country.
06/30/2010
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Sydney Morning Herald
Amnesty International is calling on the federal government to lift its suspension on processing the claims of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, saying the troubled nation is still a dangerous place.
03/01/2010
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Sydney Morning Herald
The spokesman for more than 240 Sri Lankan asylum seekers locked in a long-running stand-off with the Indonesian government is on the run.
Sanjeev "Alex" Kuhendrarajah fled the asylum seekers' rickety cargo boat, which has been docked in the western Java port of Merak since October, late last week.
02/06/2010
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Sydney Morning Herald
The guns fell silent more than eight months ago but the brutal conclusion to Sri Lanka's civil war is still being felt by Tamils caught up in the conflict.
02/04/2010
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Sydney Morning Herald
It will be years before the landmines will be cleared from the ravaged country's battlefields, writes Matt Wade.