Sri Lanka’s Major General Udaya Perera, the former Commander of the Security Force Headquarters in Killinochchi, vehemently denied the military was involved in disappearances and said those who believed the army was keeping anyone in detention should “go and see a psychiatrist”.

Maj Gen Perera, who also held the post of Director of Operations in the military during and after the war, denied the armed forces were complicit in any disappearances.

“I can vouch and say there was no policy of such nature,” he told Al Jazeera’s 101 East.

The International Truth and Justice Project released a list of 280 names of forcibly disappeared Tamils, including the names of at least 29 children today.

The list is corroborated from eyewitness in the North-East and abroad, is the start of a new project by the ITJP to build a list of all those that surrendered themselves to Sri Lanka’s armed forces at the end of the armed conflict in 2009. 

A resolution on the Tamil genocide on Sri Lanka was delivered in Canada's parliament, before a cross party group of parliamentarians earlier this month, as the ‘Second International Conference on Tamil Nationhood and Genocide in Sri Lanka’ concluded in Ottawa.

Members of the Northern Provincial Council including its chief minister, C V Wigneswaran met with families in Iranaitivu on Monday, who have returned to reclaim their homes on the island and provided them with food items. 

Addressing students at an awards ceremony in Jaffna on May 11, Sri Lanka's army commander in the region, Major General Darshana Hettiarachchi told youths to join the military. 

Over 600 Tamil students at Venthan Arts College were being awarded for the completion of a Sinhala language course. 

Stating that Jaffna Tamils were very intelligent and have a long history of working as government officials including doctors and engineers, Major General Hettiarachchi argued, "a military job is also a government job". 

Marking Mother's Day on Sunday Tamil youths joined mothers of the disappeared, who have been holding a continous protest in Vavuniya, to hold a rally demanding justice. 

Mothers of the disappeared in Vavuniya have been protesting continuously for over 444 days demanding answers over the whereabouts of their children.  

Students at the Eastern University in Batticaloa are to remember the genocide of Tamils during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009 over a two day period from May 17 - 18 this year. 

Speaking to journalists, the head of the Arts Students Union, Dineskanth said a blood donation drive would be held on Thursday followed by a remembrance event on May 18.

On May 5-7, 2018, academics from around the world came together to take part in the ‘Second International Conference on Tamil Nationhood and Genocide in Sri Lanka’ at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

The Sri Lankan military constructed a children’s park at a Tamil school in Mullaitivu last month, as it continued to consolidate its presence in Tamil schools across the region.

President Mithripala Sirisena met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on his two day state visit to Iran, reports adaderena.lk.

A series of 5 MoUs have already been signed during the current visit reports Iranian news site mehr.news.

Sirisena is expected to sign new MoU’s with Iran to further strengthen economic and trade ties between the two countries.