Thirty-seven years to the day after gunmen from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam assassinated the Tamil leader Appapillai Amirthalingam, his son has accused the group of destroying not only his father but also the political cause it claimed to represent. In a Facebook post marking the anniversary, Dr. Baheerathan Amirthalingam, a physician who settled in Britain after the killing, wrote that the assassination on July 13, 1989, had "turned our family's life upside down" and that its conseque

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A retired army major and attorney who spent more than three years inside Sri Lanka's largest prison has offered a rare firsthand account of conditions in the country's overcrowded prison system, days after the deadliest prison riot in more than a decade left 28 people dead and intensified scrutiny of long-standing failures in the country's jails. Ajith Prasanna, who was released from prison earlier this year after serving a contempt-of-court sentence, published the account

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Six political parties representing Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking communities announced on Monday that they had agreed to establish a common platform to coordinate on issues of shared concern, including constitutional reform, long-delayed provincial council elections, and land disputes affecting minority communities. The announcement came at a joint news conference at the Renuka Hotel in Colombo's Bambalapitiya suburb, where leaders of Tamil, Muslim and Indian Tamil parties sto