political settlement – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Sri Lanka: The Need for Reconciliation after Atrocities

By pearlaction | February 29, 2012 |

Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war ended in May 2009 when the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). For more than 25 years, the LTTE had been fighting for a separate state for the nation’s minority Tamil population.

UK names former defence secretary as Sri Lanka envoy

By pearlaction | February 12, 2009 |

[Reuters] Britain named a special envoy to Sri Lanka Thursday to try to ease hardship caused by the country’s long-running civil war and to help in the search for a political solution. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the priorities were to achieve a cease-fire and to get a political settlement in Sri Lanka, where tens…