When the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami hit Hambantota, the tidal disaster claimed over 30,000 people in this coastal town Twenty years ago on a day like today (December 26), people in Hambantota were ...

What is more, even assuming that the money was indeed given to “Helping Hambantota” for the purpose of effecting a tsunami relief programme, it involves a contract between the government and “Helping ...

had channelled tsunami donations into a separate private account to rebuild Hambantota district which the premier represents in Parliament. The MP alleged that he was not empowered to divert funds to ...

Relatives of victims also prayed at the graves of loved ones in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, where 677 Muslim families were relocated after the tsunami destroyed their village. Some 40,000 people were ...