43 school girls killed in Lanka air strike

At least 43 school girls were killed and 60 wounded when the Sri Lankan airforce bombed an orphanage in Mullaitivu district on Monday, the pro-rebel Tamilnet website reported.The girls were killed......

Sri Lanka shuts war-time refugee camps

Sri Lanka on Tuesday shut down Menik Farm, one of the largest refugee camps in world which once housed 300,000 Tamils displaced during the country's decade-long ethnic war which ended in 2009.......

90,000 displaced Lankan Tamils return home

The International Organisation for Migration has helped about 90,000 displaced Tamils, lodged in the Menik Farm camps in Vavuniya, to return to their towns and villages in northern Sri Lanka. The......

LTTE's women wing chief arrested

The political wing leader of the LTTE women's force, who crossed into the government-held areas from the no-fire zone in northern Sri Lanka in the guise of a civilian, was arrested from a refugee......