The tsunami also shredded the social fabric of many communities.

Demand for construction workers and materials is sending costs soaring.

The tsunami built even as it destroyed.

There can be no peace until the paramilitaries are disarmed.

One Tamil émigré contributes to health in her homeland – by training medical technicians

The co-chairs of the Sri Lankan peace process will become complicit by their silence.

Who benefits from instability and communal tension between Tamil and Muslims and who does not?

Student and staff from Jaffna University, a venerated institution amongst Sri Lanka’s Tamils lead protests against occupying military force.

On streets bearing the scars of past bombs and shells, soldiers stood with assault rifles and sticks, some obscuring their faces with black bandannas.

A number of militant groups, often with names bearing a thinly veiled reference to the Liberation Tigers, have emerged.

Life slowly picks up at the Mullaitivu children's home devastated by the tsunami.

It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.'

Poll defeat raises questions over the future direction of Sri Lanka’s oldest party.

A plethora of rifts emerge in southern politics this week.