Colombo, Sri Lanka THE Sri Lankan government's defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers in 2009 ended a three-decade war that took tens of thousands of lives. But only now is the government beginning to acknowledge its huge human cost. Two weeks ago, a government-appointed reconciliation commission released a long-awaited report, giving voice to the...

WHEN, in May 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India was killed by a suicide bomber, there was an international outpouring of grief. Recent days have seen the same with the death of Benazir Bhutto: another glamorous, Western-educated scion of a great South Asian political dynasty tragically assassinated at an election rally. There is,...
Rajiv Gandhi, født 20. august 1944 i Bombay, død 21. maj 1991 i Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu (myrdet), var en indisk politiker; premierminister 1984–1989.
Søn af Indira Gandhi. Overgik til katolicismen i forbindelse med giftermålet med Sonia Gandhi (1969). Fik to børn: sønnen Rahul Gandhi (1970) og datteren Priyanka Gandhi (1972). Dræbt af en kvindelig selvmordsbomber, D.T. Rajaratnam, en tamilsk separatist fra Sri Lanka.