Poet Ahnaz Jazeem, who was detained for 19 months under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) before being released in December 2021, signed a petition against the PTA in Mannar over the weekend.

^{Ukrainian tourists protest outside the Russian Embassy in Colombo}

The National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) has released a statement standing in "solidarity with the Ukrainian people,” highlighting that the “current Russian government's unprovoked attack on the Democratic state of Ukraine… must be condemned by the strongest terms possible and stopped.”

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris claimed that UN resolution 46/1 creates "disharmony" and is "unhelpful" to Sri Lanka in his address to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this morning. 

Commenting on Resolution 46/1 which was passed last year, Peiris said: 

A handball tournament was held in Vejle, Denmark over the weekend in memory of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s chief negotiator and political strategist, Anton Balasingham.

The tournament commenced with the lighting of a candle and a floral tribute in honour of Anton Balasingham.

As states around the world announced a host of wide-ranging sanctions on Russia, in Sri Lanka a different set of discussions was taking place in Colombo, with deepening trade links on the agenda a ministerial meeting.

Russia’s Alexey Gruzdev, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, reportedly arrived in Sri Lanka and met with the regime’s State Minister for Regional Co-Operation Tharaka Balasuriya in Colombo earlier.

Sri Lanka's fuel crisis exacerbated by its depleting foreign reserves is affecting daily transport services, as providers are finding it increasingly difficult to to keep their buses and vans running. 

Sri Lanka's official remittances in January 2022 were down 61.6 per cent from a year earlier, as overseas workers sent money through unofficial channels at higher parallel exchange rates. 

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. 

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. 

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.