For Sri Lanka's minority Tamils, election does not offer hope
Tamils form 12% of the country's 22 million population, but have long been electorally sidelined, as most candidates belong to the majority Sinhala population and many Tamils say they have no hope of a better future from those candidates.
For Sri Lanka's minority Tamils, election offers little hope
STORY: Tamils in Sri Lanka have little hope that Saturday's (September 21) presidential election will improve their lot. This is Jaffna, capital of the Northern Province, one of the areas where insurgents from the ethnic minority once fought for a Tamil nation during Sri Lanka's civil war.
Sri Lanka's election could come down to small margins. We’re talking about a three-way race for just about 17 million votes.
This tiny 11-kilometre-long, six-kilometre-wide strip, 30 kilometres off the coast of northern Sri Lanka, is the country's ...
Sri Lanka's main newspaper in the northern port of Jaffna endured bullets and bombings during a decades-long Tamil separatist ...
"For Sri Lankans, this election is a way of overcoming the trauma of the economic hardship they have just been through, a way ...
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