US EditionDead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers
- A woman seeks answers about her missing daughter from a photo of Tamil Tiger fighters in the final stages of the 26-year civil war.
- Many questioned the fate of loved ones from the war's end, with thousands still missing and families refusing death certificates without closure.
- Sellan Kandasamy separated from his injured wife during the conflict's end, and hasn't heard from her since crossing to government-controlled areas.
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Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) -- For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive.
Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — It has been 15 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, which pitted government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists. In the years since, many people are still searching for children or other family members who are missing, some presumed dead. Many people blame
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Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers
It has been 15 years since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, which pitted government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists. In the years since, many people are still searching
Sri Lanka Tamils mark 15 years since end of civil war
MULLIVAIKKAL, Sri Lanka, May 18 — Sri Lanka’s minority Tamil community marked 15 years since the end of the island nation’s civil war today in an emotional ceremony that proceeded despite fears authorities would attempt to prevent its staging. Public events celebrating the Tamil Tigers separatist group — which fought a no-holds-barred battle to establish an ethnic minority homeland — are illegal and authorities have blocked past memorials. Tamil…
Tamils in Sri Lanka mark 15th anniversary of civil war’s end in Mullivaikkal
Thousands of Tamils on May 17 converged in Mullaivaikkal, along Sri Lanka’s north-eastern coast, to pay homage to their relatives killed in May 2009, in the final battle of the island’s protracted civil war
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