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Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children work
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'Need answers': Will Sri Lanka's Tamils find war closure under Dissanayake?
Al Jazeera English
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Tamils commemorating loved ones lost or 'disappeared' during the civil war are still waiting for answers.
One monk's lonely battle against Sinhala-Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka
Himal Southasian
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Galkande Dhammananda wants to heal Sri Lanka's ethno-religious divisions, defying hardline Sinhala-Buddhist monks stoking hatred against Tamils and Muslims
Sri Lanka: How period poverty keeps girls out of school
Deutsche Welle (DW)
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For some girls in Sri Lanka's hill country, getting a period means having to skip classes unless their families can find money for sanitary pads.
Families in Sri Lanka yearn for answers on relatives who disappeared in civil war
Reuters
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KILINOCHCHI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 26 story has been corrected to fix name of official to Mahesh Katulanda in paragraph 16 and 20) Arumuga Lakshmi, tormented by questions about the fate of her two children, missing for years, marched through a town in northern Sri Lanka with a group of women, many holding up photographs, black flags and burning torches.
Malaiyaha Tamils' long march to equality in Sri Lanka
Himal Southasian
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Retracing the journey that first brought them to the country 200 years ago, Malaiyaha Tamils reflect on their history and struggle as one of Sri Lanka’s most marginalised communities.
Sri Lanka's crisis pushes war-shattered Tamils to the brink
Reuters
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MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Under a blazing sun, a 44-year-old Tamil labourer tended his rented patch of peanut field in Sri Lanka, striking his spade against the earth in a daily struggle to beat inflation that has put many necessities out of reach.
In Sri Lanka, Tamils Are Divided Over the Tigers' Militant Legacy
New Lines Magazine
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Who gets to be a 'hero' or 'traitor' is complicated and contested
A wildfire has destroyed 90% of this town. Indigenous communities have been hit the hardest
CNN International
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Lytton, Canada has long been home to the indigenous Nlaka'pamux community but has now been destroyed by a devastating wildfire. As they come to terms with this loss, the people feel betrayed by the government's inaction -- and they want answers.