A Finnish Member of Parliament has urged Helsinki to use a newly signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sri Lanka to press Colombo on accountability for war crimes committed against Tamils.

HSBC has confirmed that oil delivered to Sri Lanka cost as much as $286 per barrel, exposing the scale of the country’s vulnerability to global supply disruptions and raising renewed questions over the true cost of fuel imports during the ongoing economic crisis.

Sri Lanka’s parliament on 9 April approved the extension of the state of public emergency declared following Cyclone Ditwah in late November 2025, granting the government continued sweeping powers under the Public Security Ordinance more than four months after the natural disaster.

The excavation of the Chemmani mass grave site in Jaffna, where the remains of hundreds of forcibly disappeared Tamils are believed to be buried, has been stalled for seven months amid delays by the Sri Lankan government.

This week marks 17 years since thousands of British Tamils began a continuous 72-day occupation of Parliament Square in London on April 6 2009, as Sri Lanka intensified its military offensive that led to the Mullivaikkal genocide. 

An unprecedented number of British Tamils staged a sit in protest at Parliament Square following two weeks of protests outside the Houses of Parliament to demand international action to end the Sri Lankan government's war efforts which targeted civilians in the so-called 'No Fire Zones'.