Last week saw the second deadliest episode of prison violence in Sri Lanka's history. Only the massacre of Tamil political prisoners at Welikada in 1983 has claimed more lives inside a Sri Lankan jail. It is a record the state should be haunted to approach.

Andy Burnham is set to be Britain's next Prime Minister. In a speech this week, delivered not from Westminster but from Manchester, he pledged to "rewire" the country, promising the biggest transfer of power out of Whitehall in modern times. His optimism and sense of purpose are clearly welcome after years of drift. But if the rewiring is to mean anything, it cannot stop at Britain's shores.

This week, the number of skeletal remains uncovered at Chemmani reached a stark record of 387. With that figure, a patch of earth on the edge of Jaffna town became the largest mass grave ever uncovered on the island, surpassing the 376 remains recovered at Mannar. Recent days alone have seen the bodies of several children exhumed, alongside beads and bangles. These are the contents of the largest crime scene in the Tamil homeland, being catalogued one body at a time.

Sangeethsan's release is undoubtedly welcome, but this is not justice. A young Tamil man spent ten days in a cell for a song, the case against him has not been withdrawn, and the law under which he was seized remains on the books, waiting for the next artist.

The explosive revelation that one of the island’s most senior Sinhala Buddhist monks stands accused of repeatedly raping a child has laid bare a culture of impunity that has protected powerful members of the clergy for decades. It is shameful and symptomatic of a powerful political class that for too long has lived by its own rules. It cannot be allowed to continue.

What the last week has also demonstrated, however, is that there is a growing distance between the language of solidarity from those who claim to be allies in this pursuit, and the courage it actually requires. On the island and around the world, there is yet to be a reckoning.

The Eelam Tamil calendar is scarred with memorials of massacres and killings, each date carrying its own weight. May 18 is different.

Joseph Vijay's historic victory in Tamil Nadu is the most significant political development in the state in a generation. But Eelam Tamils should be cautious.

The interrogation of student leaders at the University of Jaffna marks a deeply troubling escalation in the Sri Lankan state’s long-standing efforts to suppress political expression in the Tamil homeland.

Sri Lanka’s political establishment has been walking a tightrope this week, after the island was thrust into global headlines following the sinking of an Iranian warship by a United States submarine.