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Families in Sri Lanka seek closure and justice 15 years after the civil war, as the quest for truth continues.

“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits.

It has been 15 years since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, which pitted government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists

Sri Lanka's minority Tamil community marked 15 years since the end of the island nation's civil war on Saturday in an emotional ceremony that proceeded despite fears authorities would attempt to prevent its staging.

Hedge fund manager and investor says America’s polarizing political climate could push it into a civil war

The Tamil people in Sri Lanka must rethink their strategies, depart from the isolationist and suicidal politics that has reduced them to historical irrelevance, and join forces with all the peoples

The Bridgewater hedge fund founder recommends only investing in the 'best parts' of the United States and moving the rest to more stable and attractive jurisdictions like Malaysia and Vietnam.

Actors to play the lead roles in Matthew Warchus’s centenary West End revival of Seán O’Casey’s Irish civil war classic

Director César Díaz’s award-winning debut powerfully confronts his country’s past

Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln

Ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Darfur have left 25 million people in urgent need, yet the west’s attention is elsewhere