Sinhala
Sinhala is an old Indo-Aryan language spoken by 75 percent of the population of Sri Lanka. Its early history can be traced in Brahmi inscriptions from about 200 BCE. This "Sinhalese Pra...
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Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel leader Velupillai
Prabhakaran vowed to fight on after suffering the biggest loss in the
25-year armed struggle to carve out the nort...
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Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lankan rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran
vowed to fight on after suffering one of the biggest losses in the
25-year armed struggle to carve out an indep...
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Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lankan rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran
vowed to fight on after suffering the loss of one of his group's key
political figures in the 25-year armed str...
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Colombo (dpa) - A high-seas battle between the Sri Lankan navy and
Tamil rebels off the north-eastern coast caused damage to both sides
as army troops killed four rebels in ...
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Colombo (dpa) - Unidentified men threw acid at a journalist in Sri
Lanka as the government withdrew security for a senior defence
correspondent who exposed corruption in the...
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Colombo (dpa) - An explosion on a civilian bus killed at least 15
people and injured more than 20 others Monday in eastern Sri Lanka, a
military spokesman said.
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Colombo (dpa) - A UN agency operating in Sri Lanka expressed
concern Wednesday about the safety of its staff after a Marxist
politician accused the organisation of funding T...
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Colombo (dpa) - At least two civilians and seven Tamil rebels
were killed in three separate incidents on Thursday as the death toll
in a parcel-bomb blast the previous day i...
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Colombo (dpa) - An explosion on a civilian bus killed at least 16
people and wounded more than 25 others Monday in eastern Sri Lanka, a
military spokesman said.
...
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Nov 2 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger political wing leader S.P.
Thamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan air force raid early on
Friday, the rebels said, in what analysts warned was a
body-blow to any hop...
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Sinhala
Tamil rebel leader vows to carry on with the 'liberationstruggle' after loss of political wing leader
