Topic: Tamil Tigers

Another effort by the Trump administration to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Former President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa will return to politics by running for the parliamentary elections in August soon after losing the presidency.

Tamils detained by Sri Lanka after the end of the long civil war were subjected to physical abuse and sexual violence, a British legal group says.

Visvalingam Gobithas, a British citizen of Tamil origin who was accused of terrorism, succumbs after years of imprisonment in Sri Lanka.

Activists in Australia are demanding the government closes its asylum seeker detention center in Papua New Guinea after it was revealed a former Sri Lankan military officer is in charge.

A report by French aid group Action Contra la Faim says Sri Lankan security forces killed 17 of its aid workers in 2006 and the charity is demanding an international inquiry into the massacre.

Sri Lanka has rejected a call by Britain for an international probe into allegations of human rights abuses committed after the island nation's civil war.

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of human rights violations presented through the country's legal system, the nation's president said Thursday.

Sri Lanka's government is on the defensive ahead of the 53-nation Commonwealth Summit after a British television crew complained of police interference.

Police in Sri Lanka are questioning a senior police officer arrested over the alleged contract killing of a millionaire shoe businessman last month.