Image courtesy of Action Contre la Faim (ACF) 

Today, French NGO, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) called for those responsible for the massacre of 17 aid workers to be prosecuted as "justice has still not been served" despite 15 years passing since their murder.  

An online rally, organised by the Tamil Refugee Council, against the Australian government’s handling of Tamil asylum seekers took place in Sydney on Monday. 

Speaking to the media, Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella maintained that Sri Lanka does not legally recognise the rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.

ICRA Lanka, a credit rating agency and a subsidiary of Moody's Investors Service, has downgraded its GDP growth projection for Sri Lanka to 3.4% and for state revenue to weaken to 9.1% of the GDP as the country struggles in response to a third wave of the pandemic.

The Mannar Chancellors’ and Professors’ Union organised a protest in the district earlier yesterday demanding higher wages and an end to militarisation of free education through the Kotelawala National Defence University (KNDU) Bill. 

Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has filed a petition seeking to void the recommendations made against him by the President’s Commission on Political Victimisation.

^{File photograph: Eelam refugees in Tamil Nadu, 2012. Courtesy EC/ECHO Arjun Claire}

German Tamils held a protest at Frankfurt Airport today to stop the deportation of torture survivor and asylum seeker Sasi K, after he was taken into immigration detention on Friday. 

The flight which was set to deport Sasi K. has been temporarily delayed by 1.5 hours. 

More than 20,000 Tamil war-affected families in Jaffna have been left out of a Sri Lankan government run housing scheme due to “allegations of administrative flaws” and “political influence”, according to the Sunday Times.

The families are from various Divisional Secretariats from across Jaffna, which has been under Sri Lankan military occupation since 1995, with the highest number of displaced families from Chavakachcheri, Tellipalai and Kopay.

The massacre of up to 64 Tamils in Valvettithurai by Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) on August 2, 1989 was marked in an event by former Northern Provincial Councillor M K Shivajilingham. 

An undetonated mortar shell was recovered at Mullaitivu District Hospital on Wednesday, more than 12 years after it was subjected to intense Sri Lankan military bombardment.

The Sri Lankan police removed the device after workers uncovered the mortar shell during road construction on the hospital premises.

Sri Lanka’s new High Commissioner to India, former cabinet Minister Milinda Moragoda, is reported to be preparing for a visit to India in mid-August to restore trust between the countries.

On this day 32 years ago, up to 64 Tamil civilians were killed by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Valvettithurai in a massacre that was termed “India’s My Lai”.

A Mullaitivu photographer was found dead in his home in Mallavi - Palinagar on Monday.

Mallavi police said they were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Shanmugaratnam Vinothan.

Vinothan was 34 years of age and a father of two children.