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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International Commission of Jurists characterized Sri Lanka's 1983 racial pogrom against the Tamils, now known as Black July, as an act of genocide. NEW YORK, UNITED ...
Over time, Abhayagiri diverged from the Mahavihara’s orthodox principles and evolved as a distinct and cosmopolitan centre of ...
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 ...
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 ...