Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 1 (SPRING 2007), pp. 156-178 (23 pages) Sri Lanka's civil war between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamil communities ...

Events in the eastern port city of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka in recent weeks have heightened communal tensions throughout the country, as well as the danger of a return to civil war. The immediate ...

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You might think it unlikely that a country that evolved from several warring kingdoms and endured three European occupations and a long civil war would also be home to one of the oldest continuous ...

The explosions in Sri Lanka on Sunday, which killed more than 200 people and injured hundreds, were the deadliest violence in the country since its civil war ended a decade ago. The Easter Sunday ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The country’s holiest place of Buddhist worship plans to exhibit what most Buddhists believe is a tooth relic of the founder of their religion, said the custodian of the Temple of ...

The Sri Lankan Embassy on Saturday held an event to commemorate Vesak - the three sacred milestones in the life of the Buddha: his birth, enlightenment and death - at the Rama IX Golden Jubilee Temple ...

A British woman, identified in media reports as Naomi Coleman, a 37-year-old nurse, was arrested Monday and sent to a deportation center soon after arriving in Sri Lanka. The reason? A taxi driver and ...

In the late fall of 1978, I was approached by a Sri Lankan Tamil rights group, which visited the office of the socialist weekly in London where I was then working and entreated me to pay a visit to ...