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Colombo – Thousands of people have started leaving refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka, six months after the civil war with the Tamil rebels ended, but remain stranded without any means of getting home, aid workers in the area said Wednesday. Since t...
Colombo – Thousands of refugees from the civil war in Sri Lanka began leaving refugee camps after six months when government opened them Tuesday, an official overseeing the refugees said. Major General G A Chandrasiri said as many as 9,300 people lef...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka gave permission Tuesday to nearly 127,000 Tamil refugees to leave squalid and overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country’s civil war ended six months ago, an official said.
Colombo, Nov 30 (AFP) Sri Lanka will today allow thousands of civilians to leave state-run camps where they have been detained since the military's victory over Tamil Tiger separatist rebels, a senior official said.
Colombo - Sri Lanka is to hold a presidential election on January 26, a government spokesman said Friday. Nominations for the election need to be received by December 17, the spokesman said. ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankan elections officials said Friday that the nation would hold early presidential elections on Jan. 26 in what is expected to be a battle between two men revered for their efforts to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Colombo - A father who allegedly faked the abduction of his son and demanded a ransom from his wife in southern Sri Lanka has been arrested, a local newspaper reported Friday. The man, identified as K Karunaratna, reportedly hid his 10-year-old son a...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan civilians held at military-run camps during the government's war with Tamil rebels are now being released, officials say.
Amnesty International is calling on the Sri Lankan government to permanently release civilians who have been illegally detained in camps since the end of the civil war six months ago.
Colombo - Four Air Force personnel were killed Friday when a Russian-built Mi-24 Air Force helicopter crashed in south-eastern Sri Lanka, an Air Force spokesman said. The accident occurred in Badalkumbura, 310 kilometres south-east of Colombo after a...
Colombo – A Russian built Mi-24 Air Force helicopter Friday crashed in south-eastern Sri Lanka after an airdisplay to mark the start of construction work of a new international airport, an Air Force spokesman said. The fate of the pilot and the two o...
Colombo – Sri Lanka's main opposition party Thursday decided to back a former army commander who spearheaded the military campaign against Tamil rebels in the next presidential elections. The opposition United National Party (UNP) led by former prime...
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COLOMBO (AFP)--Sri Lanka's electoral office said Friday that presidential elections would be held Jan. 26, with President Mahinda Rajapakse expected to face his former military chief Sarath Fonseka.
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The former chief of Sri Lanka’s army announced that he would seek to replace his onetime ally, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in January elections.
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