Sri Lankan Army chief, Shavendra Silva was greeted by a military guard of honour on his visit to Moscow on 25 October. 

Silva is visiting Moscow on the invitation extended to him by the Commander-in-chief of the Russian Land Forces, General of the Army, Oleg Salyukov. Salyukov had visited Sri Lanka in February 2020 in which an open invitation was extended to the Sri Lankan Army Chief to visit the Russian Federation.

More than 48 hours after our Instagram page was deactivated without warning, we are now finally back online.

We still have not received any explanation as to why our page was disabled. We still have not received any explanation as to why our content keeps being removed. We have reached out to Facebook, Instagram's parent company, directly through several channels. And we still have not received any response.

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, an advert in The National, a Scottish paper, speaks out against continued deforestation and land grabs undertaken by the Sri Lankan military against Eelam Tamils.

Municipal Councillor V. Parthiban was summoned to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) for a five-hour interrogation regarding the uniforms of a Jaffna Municipal Council task force.

UK and Canadian parliamentarians called on Instagram to reinstate Tamil Guardian's page after it was disabled yesterday without prior warning.  

Elliot Colburn, MP for Carshalton and Wallington and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tamils (APPGT) called the ban "completely unacceptable" and that the APPGT will be making representations to the social media platform. 

This is completely unacceptable! The APPG for Tamils will be making urgent representations to Instagram over this very worrying move. https://t.co/9dfbEgsg9i

British MPs have condemned the UK Foreign Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, following her meeting with Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, GL Peiris, in which they discussed "boosting economic ties", "deepening trade and investment links", and "strengthening security ties".

The meeting follows the appointment of the convicted extremist monk, Galagodaaththe Gnanasara, to head a Presidential Task Force focused on achieving "One Country One Law". Responding to this announcement, the International Commission of Jurists have raised concerns over the targetting of religious minorities tweeting:

Tamil families of the disappeared staged a protest in Mullaitivu today to mark the 1696th day of their roadside protest while Sri Lankan security forces watched over the demonstration. 

In an act of intimidation, Sri Lankan security force officers took photographs and monitored the families as they demonstrated outside the hut where they began their protest on March 18, 2017. 

In December 2020, Twitter notified the editors of the Tamil Guardian that Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigations Department had formally written to the social media platform, calling for posts by the news website to be removed.

“In the interest of transparency, we are writing to inform you that Twitter has received a request from Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department,” reads an email from Twitter sent on Monday, December 7^th 2020.

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed their concern over Sri Lanka's new Presidential Task Force which is focused on achieving "One Country One Law”, as it may target minority communities on the island. 

This morning Instagram disabled Tamil Guardian’s page without any prior warning or explanation, a move that amounts to a dangerous and unwarranted form of online censorship.