The image of a Buddhist vihara on the sign board for Nainativu was found covered with red paint on Saturday. 

Nainativu, which is site of an iconic Tamil Hindu temple, has become a focal point of Tamil anger towards the military's Buddhisation of the Tamil homeland. 

Sri Lanka's president, Maithripala Sirisena warned against what he described as "the shadows of old Imperialism", arguing that the current political crisis was not a conflict between political parties, but a !conflict between national and foreign thinking". 

"When I act according to the principles of nationalism without giving into foreign forces and without intimidated by their threats, foreign forces have now become a challenge and the shadows of the old Imperialism stand in our way," he told an audience at him home town, gathered at Polonnaruwa Royal College. 

The Sri Lankan army announced that soldiers had been involved in carrying out repair work at a Tamil school in Kilinochchi last month, as the military continued to involve itself with civilian activities in the region.

The military announced that soldiers helped to repair a fence at the Thevanpiddy Roman Catholic Tamil Mixed School in Kilinochchi.

Buddhists monks and the Sri Lankan military partnered up once more to hold religious ceremonies in Mullaitivu last month, despite concerns over the militarised Sinhalisation of the North-East.

<p>Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in charge of Jaffna Police, W S E Jayasundera has been appointed as Sri Lanka’s new director of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID).&nbsp;</p> <p>Jayasundera’s appointment comes after the former director of the TID, was arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

At destroyed LTTE cemeteries scattered across the Tamil homeland, tens of thousands across the North-East commemorated Maaveerar Naal on the 27th of November.

The events took place despite reports of intimidation and harassment from the military, which continues to be stationed across the region, and a deepening political crisis in Colombo.

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<p>A Muslim journalist from Amparai was reported missing last week, reports TamilWin.</p> <p>A L Shiyan, a father of two from Pothuvil - Mathuchenai in Amparai and a journalist for a private media organisation has been missing since Thursday according to a report filed with police.</p> <p>Police said Shiyan’s travelling bag had been recovered on the seaside in front of Pothuvil Buddhist vihara.</p> <p>Pothuvil police said further investigations were taking place.</p>

The Sri Lankan army showed little sign that it was slowing down its militarisation of the North-East as it announced another batch of troops had completed a “Special Infantry Operations -  Refresher Course” at its base in Jaffna

The Sri Lankan military carried out an exercise where troops dispersed protestors, at the army’s Battalion Training School (BTS) at Puthukkuddiyirippu last month.

Soldiers, carrying rifles and dressed in riot gear, were seen carrying out exercises against a mock protest group who were holding placards.

 

Politics, culture, religion and caste were the topics of discussion at an event held at SOAS University of London last month, as British Tamils gathered to discuss Tamil identity in the diaspora.

As part of the discussion - entitled ‘Diasporic identity: Who are we?’ – panellists discussed a variety of topics related to how the British Tamil community and identity has been formed and grown.