On that fatal day of 29 January 2008, the children and others from the displaced community that has taken refuge in the Madhu church complex were returning home, most of them from the Mannar Sinapandi...

November 2007 was expected to be the period that would bring out the UN Human Rights Commission’s report on its Ambassador’s visit to Sri Lanka, but it was not to be so. This was disappointing in the ...

The Claymore is a “directional mine,” a curved plastic pack of Composition C-3 explosive (later C-4) into which numerous steel cubes were embedded. When detonated, the mine would blast out its fragmen...