Rights groups accused President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of taking advantage of the global chaos to free a soldier convicted of killing civilians.
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U.S. Bars Sri Lankan Army Chief Accused of War Crimes
The sanctions are the first international action against Sri Lanka stemming from its brutal civil war. Several members of the new government are also accused of wartime abuses.
‘I Can’t Bring Back the Dead’: Sri Lanka Leader Ends Search for War Missing
A decade after the close of a bloody civil war, a new president says 24,000 listed as missing are in fact dead.
Sri Lankan Critics Fear a Crackdown Is Underway, and Some Flee
A Swiss Embassy employee was abducted and asked about asylum applications and investigators were banned from leaving just days after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected.
‘A New Enemy but the Same Hate’: Can Sri Lanka Heal Its Divisions?
After the Easter bombings, Sri Lanka confronts a past burdened by civil war and communal strife.
For Sri Lanka’s Children, the Deepest Scars Are Not Physical
Some suffered terrible injuries in the bombings. But for many others, witnesses to unimaginable scenes of carnage, the wounds are psychological.
For Sri Lanka, a Long History of Violence
The small island nation is famous for its beauty, but also for a brutal three-decade civil war and sectarian tensions that still simmer.
Sri Lankans Accuse Him of Wartime Atrocities. California May Decide.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa oversaw the final stages of a civil war that ended in 2009. He could be liable for civil damages if American judges find him guilty of murder and torture.
After War’s End, a Long Struggle to Patch Invisible Wounds
A government psychiatrist in Sri Lanka goes door to door in an area scarred by civil war, doing whatever he can to meet a staggering need for help.