An event was held at Osmania College in Jaffna last month to mark 35 years since Muslims were expelled from the peninsula by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

In a significant victory for the people of Mannar, Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has ordered the termination of all new wind power projects on Mannar Island, instructing that no future developments take place “without the consent of the people living in the Mannar Island.”

Popular British Tamil DJ, music producer and entrepreneur, Robert Rajeswaran aka DJ Rob R, has released a statement online, expressing his experiences of repeated racial abuse, ethnic hatred and threats to his life as a Tamil business owner in the southern region of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake admitted a “black state” existed on the island, revealing links between the criminal underworld and Sri Lanka’s security forces in an address last week.

Former Sri Lankan president and accused war criminal Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has begun moving out of her official residence on Independence Avenue, Colombo, following the government’s decision to strip former heads of state of their long-held privileges.

Sri Lanka’s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the assets of senior officers in the country’s police and armed forces, according to a report by the state-owned Silumina newspaper.

Christian clergy and bishops from across the North-East gathered in Jaffna on Thursday for a symbolic protest titled “Chemmani Solidarity Cry”, calling for justice for the victims of genocide.

A landmark report commissioned by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), with support from the Australian Government, finds that Sri Lankan militarisation in the North-East has worsened the climate vulnerability and weakened the adaptive capacity of Tamils across the region.

A protest calling for justice for the victims of the Chemmani mass graves and the repeal of the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was held in Jaffna town on Saturday, organised by the Movement for Equal Rights.