Britain has a new government, and on paper it is one of the most Tamil-literate cabinets ever assembled in Westminster.

Tamil parliamentarians have marked the 43rd anniversary of the Black July pogrom, saying that four decades of political change in Sri Lanka have brought neither justice nor accountability for the thousands of Tamils killed in July 1983.

Uma Kumaran, the first person of Eelam Tamil heritage elected to the British parliament, has been appointed a Foreign Office minister, taking a post in the department that sets London's foreign policy after pressing it from the backbenches over Chemmani and accountability for the Tamil genocide.

Sri Lankan goods will face a 10% import tariff in the US from Friday, following the country’s measures to ban imports linked to forced labour

Civil society representatives in Jaffna have appealed to European Union ambassadors to press the Sri Lankan government to revoke the 2013 gazette acquiring 6,317 acres in Valikamam North, as displaced landowners enter a fourth month of weekly protests demanding the return of their land.

Fishermen from Delft have publicly appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay to halt incursions by trawlers from the Indian state, saying nets worth millions of rupees have been destroyed and that affected families have no avenue for compensation.

A European Union delegation visited the Chemmani mass grave excavation site in Jaffna on Wednesday, observing the court-supervised excavation and receiving updates on the investigation into a site that has become the largest mass grave ever uncovered on the island, as the number of sets of human remains identified there rose to 471.