Yet, another struggle for independence was the Matale Rebellion of 1848, led by Veera Puran Appu and Gongalegoda Banda. Angered by the unfair acquisition of land and the imposition of new taxes by ...

Watson’s conduct was also discussed by special committees in Parliament in London. Capt. Henderson, who took part in the ambush at Wariyapola, along with Captains Lillie and Watson, later wrote a book ...

The Matale Rebellion was thus emasculated with a single action. The only British casualty was a soldier wounded at Wariyapola. Lillie was acting under martial-law which gave the military enormous ...

On Tuesday April 5, the 45th “Bak Maha Viru Samaruwa” took place at four places in the country; After the Matale Rebellion against the British in 1848 the 1971 JVP revolt was the first against ...

MATALE, Sri Lanka – A Sri Lankan judge has announced that more than 150 human skulls and bones recovered from a mass grave were buried there about 25 years ago, strengthening suspicion that they ...

On Tuesday April 5, the 45th “Bak Maha Viru Samaruwa” took place at four places in the country After the Matale Rebellion against the British in 1848 the 1971 JVP revolt was the first against ...

A Sri Lankan forensic archaeologist says a mass grave discovered in November in the central town of Matale is roughly 25 years old.

Human remains in what appears to be a mass grave unearthed in central Sri Lanka could be "the site of a crime", a forensic specialist tells the BBC.