The assassination of a top leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday has heightened the danger of a return to civil war on the island. While the Sri Lankan ...

Kagusthan Ariaratnam, a former child soldier turned defense analyst, speaks with JURIST about his new memoir Spy Tiger: The 05 File. The book, co-written with Michael Bramadat-Willcock, details ...

It was the worst thing to ask the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to release children who were trained to fight with guns against the Sri Lanka’s military. Once there was a local newspaper ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

In early February 2003, the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE held their fifth round of peace talks in Berlin. Due to international pressure, especially from UNICEF and the Sri Lankan Monitoring ...

Jaffna, Sri Lanka—Sri Lanka’s newly renamed “Highway for Peace and Unity” is a cratered strip of asphalt that runs 100 miles due north to Jaffna, straight through the heart of Tamil Tiger country. The ...

Sri Lanka is a stunning island nation in the Indian Ocean - "a pendant off the ear of India," according to Sri Lanka-born author Michael Ondaatje. Under ordinary conditions, it would be a paradise for ...

The Sri Lankan Army is fighting — and apparently about to win — a 25-year-old war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a brutal ethnic separatist movement. Alongside the conventional ...