R. Sampanthan, the Face of Sri Lanka's Tamil Minority and Its Struggle Post-civil War, Dies at 91

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91. A lawyer by profession, Sampanthan entered Parliament for the first time in 1977 as part of a coalition that won an election mandate to campaign for an independent state for the Tamils, alleging continued marginalization by successive governments controlled by the majority ethnic Sinhalese. He lost his seat...