Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a Muslim indexing officer at the parliament's Hansard Department, accusing him of aiding and abetting one of the Easter Sunday suicide bombers, Zahran Hashim. 

The suspect, Mohamed Naushad Jalaldeen from Kandy, was arrested in Kurunegala following information obtained from an electro-cardiologist at the local teaching hospital, who was also arrested over association to the group Zahran led, National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ). 

Jalaldeen started working in parliament in 2006, when he joined the Transation Department. 

The iconic Vattrapalai Amman temple in Mullaitivu was forced to hold its annual festival amid a heightened security presence. 

Exports from Sri Lanka to Pakistan have plummeted, the Pakistan-Sri Lanka Business Forum said this month, after days of anti-Muslim violence attacking Muslim businesses, homes and mosques. 

"It is the Muslim community in Sri Lanka that imports Pakistani products and sells them there. They are partners of Pakistani exporters,” the Forum's chairperson, Aslam Pakhali told the Express Tribune. 

"Their shops, super stores and godowns are being targeted. The goods exported from Pakistan have been unloaded at the Sri Lankan port, but the importers are not getting them cleared because of the deteriorating law and order situation there," he added. 

Tamils around the world held vigils, rallies, marches and exhibitions to mark May 18 as Tamil Genocide Day.

Sri Lanka’s former defence secretary, who oversaw the military offensive that killed tens of thousands of Tamils in Mullivaikkal, said he had watched those bloody final weeks “with a sense of quiet joy” in a statement released on Saturday.

<p>UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called for a war crimes tribunal in Sri Lanka to ensure perpetrators of crimes are punished, in a message released to mark ten years since the end of the armed conflict on Saturday.</p> <p>“On Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day we commemorate the tens of thousand of people who were killed and the widespread human rights abuses in the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War,” said the British opposition leader.</p> <p>“Ten years on there has been virtually no progress in prosecuting those responsible and without justice there can be no sustainable peace.”</p> <p>Corbyn went on to add,</p>

Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau released a statement to mark the 10th anniversary of the Mullivaikkal massacre earlier today, calling for a “meaningful accountability process that has the trust and confidence of the survivors”.

Alongside the large-scale event in Mullivaikkal itself, remembrance events were held across the Tamil homeland today to mark the 10th anniversary of the end of the armed conflict, when tens of thousands of Tamils were massacred by Sri Lankan armed forces. 

Tamils gather at Mullivaikkal to remember genocide 10 years on

 

Mullaitivu

Students at the University of Jaffna alongside staff defied threats from the Sri Lankan army and police to commemorate May 18 at the Mullivaikkal monument in the campus.

Tamils across the homeland gathered at the Mullivaikkal memorial today 10 years since the end of the armed conflict to remember the killing of tens of thousands by Sri Lankan armed forces.