December 20 marks 25 years since the Mirusuvil massacre, where Sri Lankan soldiers murdered eight Tamil civilians in Jaffna, including three children, before dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment, Arun Hemachandra, will lead a Sri Lankan delegation to Israel to discuss employment opportunities for Sri Lankans across the country and to strengthen ties between the countries in the sector.
Residents of Gankankulam staged a protest march demanding an immediate halt to illegal gravel excavation and protection of their village’s environment and resources
Five Tamils have been released on bail after they were arrested by Sri Lankan police earlier today during a peaceful protest against the illegally constructed Buddhist temple in Thaiyiddy, Jaffna.
The Batticaloa High Court granted bail to Ampitiye Sumanarathana, an extremist Buddhist monk who incited violence against Tamils.
The Batticaloa Magistrate’s Court had previously issued an arrest warrant after Sumanarathana failed to appear before the court for the hearing on December 15.
The Sri Lankan government is expected to nominate Colonel O.R Rajasinghe as the Auditor General, in a move which is considered to undermine the independence of the office and further militarisation of government institutions.
The court hearing on the case seeking excavation of the alleged mass grave wells in Mandaitivu has been adjourned until 31 March pending further investigations
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that Tamil asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on the island of Diego Garcia.
In December 2024, the BIOT Supreme Court ruled that 64 Tamil asylum seekers, including sixteen children, had been unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands and home to a UK-US military base.
The family of three people injured in a car collision involving former Speaker and National People’s Power (NPP) parliamentarian Asoka Ranwala has raised serious concerns over the impartiality and pace of the police investigation, fuelling renewed scrutiny over political privilege and impunity in Sri Lanka.
The case over the removal of archaeological signboards in Valaichchenai involving the Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman and others has been postponed until 9 February
