Sri Lanka civil war

Fifteen years after the war ended, families do not know if their children are dead or alive.

Perhaps the path to reconciliation is a new amendment to the constitution, something most people can agree to.

To date, no government official, politician, or civilian has been held accountable for the violence against Tamils seen during Black July.

The West slams Pakistan and China for supplying arms used by Sri Lanka in alleged war crimes against Tamils during the civil war but is silent on Israel’s complicity.

The report said Rajapaksa, then a powerful defense official, ordered the destruction of all police records older than five years after mass graves were discovered in the Matale district of central Sri Lanka in 2013.

For far too long Sri Lanka has been a stage with the Rajapaksas as the only meaningful actors. A democratic renewal may be all that can save the country in the long run.

For the first time ever, an event held by mostly Sinhalese also memorialized Tamil victims of the decades-long civil war.

India abstained from voting while China voted against the resolution.

The U.N.'s human rights chief says it is "time for international action to ensure justice for international crimes."

The recent destruction of a memorial for Sri Lankan Tamils massacred during the civil war raises important, difficult, questions.

With the Rajapaksa brothers at the helm, majoritarian politics threatens to morph into militant nationalism in Sri Lanka.