The military occupied Tamil homeland, which already grapples with the highest suicide rates on the island, is facing a worsening mental health crisis as the mass migration of psychiatrists leaves vital services on the brink of collapse.

Former Navy Commander Nishantha Ulugetenne has admitted to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that “Gun Site”, an underground torture facility located within the Trincomalee naval base, was an unlawful detention centre.

The US Navy’s littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) will arrive at the Port of Colombo on 16 August, in what Washington hails as a demonstration of the “strength” of US - Sri Lanka relations and their “shared commitment” to maritime security in the Indo-Pacific.

A coalition of civil society organisations have urged Sri Lanka's Counter Terrorism Investigation Department (CTID) to end their harassment and withdraw a summons against Tamil journalist and photographer Kanapathipillai Kumanan. 

A series of decisions that will further entrench militarisation in the Batticaloa District were announced following a District Coordinating Committee meeting on 13 August, chaired by committee head Sunil Handunneththi.

Tamil journalist and professional photographer Kanapathipillai Kumanan revealed details of an ongoing inquiry by Sri Lanka’s Counter Terrorism and Investigation Division (CTID), which accuses him of spreading information that “discredits the military” and “creates conflict” between security forces and Tamil civilians.

Bodhana Sivanandan, a 10-year-old British Tamil from Harrow, north-west London, has made chess history by becoming both the youngest woman international master in the world and the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster.

Protests continue in Mannar over wind power project as residents demand government intervention

A court in Muthur has authorised the excavation of a potential mass grave site in Sampur where human skeletal remains were discovered last month, ordering that the work be carried out by the Sri Lankan Army’s Eastern Province Engineering Division with the approval of the Eastern Province Security Force Commander.