S RI LANKA has a problem with mass graves—and with decades of inaction about them. The country is littered with grisly ...

Yesterday, (Monday) the Sri Lankan government launched the return of tens of thousands of displaced civilians to West Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka - an area that until recently was under rebel LTTE ...

The Sri Lankan government has scheduled local council elections for March 10 in the Batticaloa district in the war-ravaged eastern province. The planned polls have nothing to do with resuming civilian ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, January 23 (UNHCR) - An estimated 5,000 civilians have found refuge in eastern Sri Lanka's Batticaloa district after fleeing escalated fighting between government forces and the ...

The Batticaloa Municipal Council have teamed up with UNICEF to provide more recreation and entertainment to children including those affected by the civil war. Two children’s parks, an arts centre and ...

Thulakshan, 5, eats a small meal outside his house in the village of Devapuram, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, on July 5, 2022. As the country's economic crisis deepens, UNICEF is working to meet the urgent ...

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka -- For over 30 years, Thangamuthu Jayasingam has had the number 158 etched in his memory as a painful legacy of Sri Lanka's civil war. It is the count of Tamil boys and men, ages ...

Batticaloa (Fides Service) - While civil war continues to produces more violence and victims every day there are timid attempts to help people in Sri Lanka, especially in the north and north east, ...

BATTICALOA (Reuters) - A dozen rifle-toting soldiers guarded a small community hall as day broke in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on Sunday morning. Around 9 a.m. local time - roughly the ...

A pastor from one of the churches bombed on Easter Sunday has a powerful message for the Islamic radical terrorists who took the lives of members of his flock. Rev. Roshan Mahesen, the senior pastor ...

A total of eight explosions rocked Sri Lanka early Sunday morning, killing hundreds. Six near-simultaneous explosions occurred in the Sri Lankan cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa on Easter ...

The first church Mohammed Nasar Mohammed Azar tried to blow up had already finished its service by the time he arrived. The Easter Sunday mass there had started early. “He came in the car around 8:30 ...