Sivagnanam Shritharan, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) Member of Parliament has demanded Sri Lanka’s Minister of Agriculture, K.D. Lalkantha, publicly disclose the true intent behind a gazette notification issued on 28 March 2025, which seeks to acquire over 5,700 acres of land across the Tamil homeland.

Professor S. Raveendranath

In December 2006, Professor S.

 

To mark 16 years since the Sri Lankan military onslaught that massacred tens of thousands of Tamils, we revisit the final days leading up to the 18th of May 2009 – a date remembered around the world as ‘Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day’. 

Social activist Selvakumar was brutally assaulted in Kudumbimalai, Batticaloa, while informing locals about the cancellation of a Mullivaikkal commemoration event

A peaceful protest marking the tenth anniversary of Vithya's murder turned tense in Velanai as police attempted to collect participants' names, sparking concerns over intimidation

Tamils in Grinsted, Denmark, held a memorial on May 11 to commemorate the victims of the Mullivakkal genocide. 

Candles were lit and flowers were laid to remember the tens of thousands of Tamils that were killed by Sri Lanka's military offensive in the final months of the armed conflict. 

Tamil Canadian MP Gary Anandasangaree has been appointed today as the Minister of Public Safety in Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet.

Anandasangaree will oversee key agencies tasked with Canada’s national security, including the Canada Border Services Agency, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. 

Tamils in the North-East served and ate kanji today to mark the second day of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Week. 

In the week leading up to May 18, also known as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, Tamils hold commemoration events and serve kanji to remember the 169,796 people who went unaccounted for during the genocide at Mullivaikkal as well as the victim survivors. 

Mullivaikkal remembrance week was observed across the North with porridge distribution, protests, and tributes honoring the victims of the Tamil genocide

Photograph: Yardstick Films 

Britain's Foreign Office successfully stopped a retired mercenary being compelled to give evidence at a freedom of information tribunal in London. 

Government lawyers managed to block a witness application made by Declassified to summon Major David Walker, a former SAS officer who co-founded Keenie Meenie Services (KMS), a mercenary company active in the 1980s.