A Pillaiyar statue located on the street of Chenkalady border in Batticaloa has been vandalised and tossed on the side by unknown individuals.

Batticaloa’s mayor Thiyagarajah Saravanapavan met with British High Commissioner Sarah Hulton on Tuesday (11^th Feb 2020), where he revealed that the government has relinquished the powers of the local council and abandoned the development of their city.  

Excavation work at a hospital in Mullaitivu has uncovered bullets and the bodies of at least two people, after skeletal remains and mines were found on Wednesday.

<p><img alt src="/sites/default/files/File/Modi%20Rajapaksa/84211907_1516737505158226_6234815504603676672_o.jpg"></p> <p>During a meeting between Israeli Ambassador, Ron Malka and Sri Lankan President, and accused war criminal, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Ambassador pledged support for Sri Lanka’s economy.</p>

Sri Lanka’s president and accused war criminal Gotabaya Rajapaksa made a highly publicised visit to Welikada prison this week, whilst his regime continues to arrest and detain Tamils under the highly criticised Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

Human skeletal remains and mines have been recovered from a hospital in Mullaitivu this morning, after land clearance work had taken place at the grounds.

Clearance work had been taking place at the Mankulam Hospital as plans were underway to construct a new hospital on the premises. However, construction workers soon uncovered remnants of mines that may remain unexploded.

<p>A cross party group of British parliamentarians have written to the UK Foreign Secretary, after Sri Lanka’s president claimed that the thousands of forcibly disappeared Tamils “are actually dead”.</p>

<p>Sri Lanka is exploring the possibility of purchasing modern weapons from Russia, Yury Matery, the Russian Ambassador to Colombo, reportedly said.</p> <p>In an interview with RIA Novosti, the Ambassador stated that military-technical cooperation between Russia and Sri Lanka has been developing over the recent years.</p>

A Christian shrine was vandalised by a group of unknown persons in Vauvuniya earlier today, in what locals have denounced as a move to try and create religious disharmony in the region.

The Madha shrine, located by a row of private homes in Vavuniya, was found vandalised by locals.

The Office of Missing Persons (OMP) have started the process of issuing Interim Reports to the families of the disappeared which will allow them to obtain a Certificate of Absence (CoA), to 'validate' the status of a person reported missing.

In a press release, the OMP stated that:

Batticaloa Magistrate's Court has ordered Sri Lankan police to detain two men over the murder of a Sri Lankan policeman in Vavunathivu last week, including a former LTTE cadre.

The Sri Lankan military has recently ramped up search operations across the Tamil homeland, including the searching of buses travelling from Jaffna to the south of the island.

 

At least one person has been admitted to hospital after an explosion at a home in Mullaitivu, where a Tamil man had reportedly been collecting discarded munitions, in order to extract chemicals to sell.

Sri Lanka’s prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa revealed that he requested a moratorium on all loan repayments to India for three years, as his regime struggles with Sri Lanka’s repayment obligations.

In an interview with The Hindu, Rajapaksa admitted that Sri Lanka’s debt repayments, with servicing totalling $60 billion, were “a worry”.