The Tamils had a reason to revolt. Tamil-speaking Hindus have been part of Sri Lanka's complex ethnic and religious mosaic for centuries, but they are only 12 percent of the population.

The ethnic problem seems to have been forgotten even by the Tamils of Northern and Eastern Provinces. Tamils have apparently been left to themselves. Political disunity seems to have been the order of ...

Now that the LTTE has been comprehensively defeated, how would you put it in the context of the Tamil ethnic struggle? The struggle for Tamil equality and justice for Tamils did not start with the ...

When the thirty year ethnic conflict ended in 2009, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had ample opportunities to address the grievances of the Tamil minority. But President Rajapaksa refused to ...