APTOPIX Sri Lanka Obit Clarke picture

APTOPIX SRI LANKA
AP Images;  April 20, 2007 ;     260 words ... ... 172 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, April 20, 2007. Arjunan ... Lankan government forces in northern Sri Lanka on Thursday. An estimated 4,000 ... have been killed in fighting in Sri Lanka since December 2005. (AP Photo ...

APTOPIX Sri Lanka India Cricket
AP Images;  September 14, 2009 ;     231 words ...Sri Lanka's cricket team captain Kumar Sangakkara drops his bat on the wicket during the final tri-nation cricket series between India and Sri Lanka, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

APTOPIX Sri Lanka Civil War
AP Images;  May 23, 2009 ;     256 words ...A boy stands in a Manik Farm displaced persons camp in Vavuniya in Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 23, 2009. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has travelled to Sri Lanka to discuss the conditions of nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamil civilians ...

APTOPIX Sri Lanka Pakistan Cricket
AP Images;  July 11, 2009 ;     239 words ... ... Akmal run for a rugby ball during a practice session ahead of the second cricket test match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

APTOPIX Sri Lanka Council Elections
AP Images;  March 10, 2008 ;     258 words ... ... enter a polling station at Kiran, a suburb of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 10, 2008. Thousands of police patrolled ... elections since government forces seized control of eastern Sri Lanka last year from ethnic Tamil rebels. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena ...

APTOPIX Sri Lanka War Displaced
AP Images;  October 22, 2009 ;     280 words ... ... villages at Kathankulam village in Mannar, about 230 kilometers (144 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Sri Lanka has sent home 4,300 ethnic Tamils displaced in the final stages of the island's civil war ...

APTOPIX Sri Lanka Buddhism
AP Images;  August 5, 2009 ;     289 words ... ... annual Buddhist festival of the temple of tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists ... dancers and drummers performing. The event is considered as Sri Lanka's most prominent religious and cultural ceremony that dates ...