Britain must “show international leadership” on Sri Lanka said the Shadow Minister for Asia Stephen Kinnock, in a letter where he expressed “deep concern about alarming threats to democratic governance, the rule of law and human rights” on the island.

Sri Lanka’s former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has claimed that the British government was aware of the activities of Keenie Meenie Services (KMS), a British company that assisted the Sri Lankan military in committing crimes against Tamils.

A Vavuniya court has issued an arrest warrant against the administrators of the ancient Hindu Vedukkunari hill temple, as Sri Lanka’s archaeological department continues to pursue a case against the temple.

The leader of the Tamizh Makkal Thesya Kootanii (TMTK) C V Wigneswaran has called on the United Nations to ensure Sri Lanka is referred to an international criminal tribunal, as he rejected the notion of granting the government “further time” at the UN Human Rights Council with the extension of another resolution on accountability for mass atrocities. 

Responding to the announcements that Sri Lanka is considering sending Muslim bodies to be buried in the Maldives, former Maldivian Foreign Minister, Dunya Maumoon, urged on Twitter that Sri Lanka “respect their Muslim minority’s wish to have last rites of Covid-19 patients as per our religion”.

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Deepa Mehta's film Funny Boy has been disqualified as an entry from the Academy Awards International Feature category for failing to meet the foreign language dialogue threshold.

As Sri Lanka’s UK-based Ex-Service Persons Associations (SLESPA-UK) recently congratulated war criminal and Sri Lankan defence attaché, Brigadier Swarna Bothota, on the ending of his tenure in office, Tamil diaspora activists continue to call for his arrest.

Sri Lankan police brought the town of Salambaikulam in Vavuniya under full lockdown last week after two people in the area tested positive for coronavirus. 

Sri Lanka has recorded the highest number of elephant deaths caused by human-elephant conflict in the world. The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) recorded that in the past 12 months 407 elephants have been killed in conflict with humans.