Tamils

Any optimism felt by the country’s beleaguered minorities remains tempered.

Reports that Australian authorities have handed Tamils back to Sri Lanka spark international criticism.

There has been a rise in Buddhist extremism in several Asian countries recently. Is there a link?

With the Rajapaksa regime intransigent, Tamils hope that foreign pressure can provide the impetus for change.

A robust policy on diaspora engagement remains critical to domestic stability and international relations in postwar Sri Lanka.

Turning their attention from Tamils, Sinhala-Buddhist nationalists are now targeting the island's Muslim minority.

Muslims face violence in Burma and Sri Lanka. Charu Lata Hogg asks why.

Three years after the Tamil Tiger's defeat, the underlying issues that caused Sri Lanka's civil war are once again coming to a head.

The Diplomat speaks with Callum Macrae, director of ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields,’ about his documentary film and the controversy surrounding it.

Western pressure on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa over the defeat of the Tamil Tigers risks creating another Burma.

The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam last May has breathed new life into the democratic process for once marginalised groups in Tamil politics, says Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe. And, as Sri Lankans prepare to head to the polls, he says a new optimism is emerging that their society can be rebuilt.