Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Sujeewa Senasinghe has been forced to retract a letter convening the inaugural meeting of a proposed Sri Lanka–Israel Parliamentary Friendship Association, after admitting it was issued “in error.”

A UN commission has recently concluded that Israel bears responsibility for “the commission of genocide” in the Gaza strip and has called on all member states to end the transfer of arms to Israel; support the prosecution of war criminals; and consider the imposition of sanctions on Israel.

Sri Lanka has recorded the highest number of attacks on Indian nationals abroad since 2022, according to official data presented in the Indian Parliament by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

The United States concluded “Exercise Pacific Angel – 2025” in Sri Lanka last week, further entrenching military cooperation with Colombo despite ongoing allegations of war crimes and genocide by Sri Lankan security forces.

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has admitted that members of parliament and cabinet are directly linked to underworld figures running the island’s sprawling criminal and drug networks.

The National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) hosted a high-profile panel discussion at the Geneva Press Club this week, where international legal experts and Tamil civil society representatives reiterated that accountability for atrocities in Sri Lanka can only come through independent international prosecutions, not domestic mechanisms.

An investigative team visited the suspected mass grave site at Kurukkalmadam in Batticaloa last week, to plan the next stage of excavations and exhumations amid renewed demands from Tamil families for international oversight.

Sri Lanka has resumed construction on the stalled Central Expressway with the help of a fresh $500 million loan from China, marking the first major tranche of funding from its largest bilateral creditor since Colombo defaulted on foreign debt three years ago.

A former Sri Lankan police officer has been implicated in illegal sand smuggling operations in Vadamaradchi, raising further questions over the deep entanglement of state officials in the destructive trade.