FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS: enjoy bewitching 'birds eye view' over the paradise island of Sri Lanka aided by the surround sound of the indian ocean. From...
April 2006Tamil Tigers claim the government is secretly arming paramilitaries. But the government refuses to even acknowledge the paramilitaries' existence, leaving both sides poised for...
July 2007In the past 18 months, over 2,000 Sri Lankans have been kidnapped or murdered, allegedly by government death squads. Now Human Rights Watch is...
The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century...
