A Sri Lankan government minister, Chamara Sampath Dassanayake, forcibly entered a police station in Badulla and engaged in a verbal altercation with officers, ultimately forcing them to release 34 government supporters who had been detained over violating election laws. 

British Tamils demanded a boycott of the Sri Lankan cricket team on Sunday, as they demonstrated outside the Oval as Sri Lanka played England in London. 

Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa recently told a talk show that foreign intervention particularly those exerted by the United States through its ambassador Julie Chung intend to bring Ranil to power, failing which they intend to ensure that Anura Kumara Dissanayake becomes the next President of Sri Lanka. The video was taken down hours after the program was telecast live. 

The current chairman of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) Mavai Senathirajah met with incumbent Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe this week, as turmoil rocked the party over the central committee decision to back Sajith Premadasa at the upcoming presidential election. 

 

The Sri Lankan police in Maruthankerny, Jaffna, obstructed Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) members, including Selvarajah Kajendren MP, as they campaigned for a boycott of Sri Lanka's presidential elections. 

On Sunday, the police officers confiscated pamphlets and blocked the path of the members of the TNPF as they questioned the members over their campaign. 

More human skeletal remains have been found at a former High Security Zone (HSZ) in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, in yet another mass grave on the island. The recent findings are part of the same remains that were initially unearthed in July this year, at the first roundabout after entering the Colombo Port from Chaithya Road in Colombo. The old post office and Sri Lanka’s naval base are also located in the same area.

N. Srikantha, a lawyer and senior member of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), asserted that Eelam Tamils should not be misled by the narratives presented by Sinhalese politicians such as Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who has failed to adequately address the ethnic issue or accountability for the Tamil genocide. 

The 28th anniversary of Krishanthi Kumarasamy's gang rape and murder by Sri Lankan soldiers was commemorated at Chemmani on Saturday.

The gathering also remembered the murder and cover-up of those who had gone in search of Krishanthi; her mother Rasamma, brother Pranavan, and their neighbour Kirupakaran. The memorial was hosted by Gnanaprakasam Kisore, a former member of the Chavakachcheri City Council.

UN High Commissioner Volker Türk urged Sri Lanka to address the "root causes of the conflict" to advance accountability and reconciliation whilst also calling on member states to take action through their own domestic systems and through the international fora. 

The case in opposition to a common Tamil candidate rests upon the assumption that incremental progress is possible under the Sinhala political framework. It is not. Tamils are better off with a candidate standing as a symbol of their defiance. It stands as a stark reminder to the international community that the Tamil issue cannot be swept over.