A boat allegedly kept by the Black Tigers wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) meant for suicide attacks has been found in the Chundikkulum area of Mullaitivu. 

The vessel, apparently hidden under water, was identified by Sri Lankan military intelligence from an investigation they carried out earlier today based on the tip-offs they received. 

The military subjected the boat to an inspection and claimed to have found explosives used during suicide attacks. 

As the 49^th session of the UN Human Rights Council begins, the British Minister for South Asia, Lord Tariq Ahmad, has met with Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister G L Peiris and pressed him on progress over “truth, justice and reconciliation mechanisms”.

Tamils in Germany formed a human chain across over 50 cities yesterday, calling on German authorities to stop deportations of Tamil refugees and demanded accountability for the Tamil genocide. 

Tamil families of the disappeared marked five years since they began their roadside protests demanding to know the fate of their forcibly disappeared loved ones. 

Yesterday marked five years - 1,833 days - since the families began their campaign for justice in 2017. 

|BC Tamil journalist, Lakshmanan Devapratheepan, was attacked by the supporters of Sri Lanka Podujana Peruma (SLPP) state minister S Viyalendiran today in Batticaloa. 

The Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) wrote to the Core Group reiterating their previous calls to refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the genocide it perpertrated against the Tamil people. 

"[...] we reiterate that the core group which includes two members of the UN Security Council must initiate steps to table a resolution in the UN Security Council to refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court to inquire into all crimes committed, including the crime of genocide against the Tamil people," the TNPF wrote in a letter yesterday. 

As many as 5,000 Tamil Nadu students are currently trapped in Ukraine and desperately seeking a way out of the country, according to the latest reports, with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin appealing to the Indian government for intervention.

In a joint statement, the International Truth and Justice Project, Redress and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka welcomed the arrest of the suspected murder of Nimalarajan Mylvaganam, a high-profile Tamil journalist who was murdered in his home in October 2000.

Speaking in parliament, former Sri Lankan army commander, Sarath Fonseka accused UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet of harbouring LTTE sympathies and only listening to “one side of the story”.

Following a refusal by Sri Lanka's president to meet with them, Tamil parliamentarians from across the North East gathered in front of the President's office to protest the continued land grabs by the Mahaweli Authority and  Department of Archeology under the guise of archaeological protection.