Within 12 hours of reactivating our account, Instagram has inexplicably disabled Tamil Guardian’s page once more, without warning or explanation. 

Since our account was reactivated this morning, we posted one breaking story, which garnered thousands of likes within hours. Our work is crucial and it is being silenced.

We have still not received any explanation from Meta and Instagram as to why our account has been repeatedly disabled and why our posts have been removed, despite attempts to reach out through various channels.

Stephen Timms, MP for Eastham, called for Sri Lanka’s Army Commander Shavendra Silva to be sanctioned under the UK Global Sanctions Regime, for his involvement in the gross violation of human rights at the end of the armed conflict. 

“We should use it to sanction those guilty of war crimes in Sri Lanka. The US rightly designated army commander Shavendra Silva,” Timms stated.  

China has blacklisted the People's Bank, the second largest state-owned commercial bank in Sri Lanka, over a dispute of payment for imported organic fertiliser. 

The ban follows a dispute over alleged contaminated fertiliser being imported in which the Sri Lankan government refused to pay for. The People's Bank of Sri Lanka was blacklisted by the Economic and Commerical Office of the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka for failing to make payment according to the Letter of Credit filed by the Chinese fertiliser company Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group. 

Projections across Scotland, including on the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, called for international accountability for the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka ahead of the island’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa visiting the country next week.

“Wanted for Genocide, President of Sri Lanka,” warned the projections which were placed in several locations across Scotland.

Sri Lankan Army chief, Shavendra Silva was greeted by a military guard of honour on his visit to Moscow on 25 October. 

Silva is visiting Moscow on the invitation extended to him by the Commander-in-chief of the Russian Land Forces, General of the Army, Oleg Salyukov. Salyukov had visited Sri Lanka in February 2020 in which an open invitation was extended to the Sri Lankan Army Chief to visit the Russian Federation.

More than 48 hours after our Instagram page was deactivated without warning, we are now finally back online.

We still have not received any explanation as to why our page was disabled. We still have not received any explanation as to why our content keeps being removed. We have reached out to Facebook, Instagram's parent company, directly through several channels. And we still have not received any response.

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, an advert in The National, a Scottish paper, speaks out against continued deforestation and land grabs undertaken by the Sri Lankan military against Eelam Tamils.

Municipal Councillor V. Parthiban was summoned to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) for a five-hour interrogation regarding the uniforms of a Jaffna Municipal Council task force.

UK and Canadian parliamentarians called on Instagram to reinstate Tamil Guardian's page after it was disabled yesterday without prior warning.  

Elliot Colburn, MP for Carshalton and Wallington and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tamils (APPGT) called the ban "completely unacceptable" and that the APPGT will be making representations to the social media platform. 

This is completely unacceptable! The APPG for Tamils will be making urgent representations to Instagram over this very worrying move. https://t.co/9dfbEgsg9i

British MPs have condemned the UK Foreign Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, following her meeting with Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, GL Peiris, in which they discussed "boosting economic ties", "deepening trade and investment links", and "strengthening security ties".

The meeting follows the appointment of the convicted extremist monk, Galagodaaththe Gnanasara, to head a Presidential Task Force focused on achieving "One Country One Law". Responding to this announcement, the International Commission of Jurists have raised concerns over the targetting of religious minorities tweeting: