The Colombo stock market, last week saw a significant drop in foreign investment, resulting in foreign investors selling shares that amounted to Rs. 3.06 billion.

The Sri Lankan Financial Times news site reported, that pre-prepared local investors nullified the impact of the mass sales, by accelerating their buying to renew confidence in the market.

The Sinhala weekly Divaina reported on Sunday that the government has decided to conduct a special investigation into recent activities of the Northern Provincial Council.

The paper reportedly said that the government is seriously concerned about the recent resolutions passed by the council, violating the constitution and undermining Sri Lanka’s national security and foreign policy. A meeting between NPC Education Minister Thambirasa Kurukularasa with the US Pacific Command has also come under scrutiny.

Speaking to the Tamil Guardian, Indian film maker Maga Tamizh Prabhagaran condemned the procurement of Tamil land by the Sri Lankan government as part of a structural genocide, after the London screening of his film ‘This Land Belongs to the Army’.

Prabhagaran, who was detained by Sri Lankan security forces whilst visiting the Tamil homeland in the North-East of the island, was eventually deported by Colombo. Upon arrival in London, Prabhagaran also described being held and interrogated for over 3 hours by British police, questioning him on the LTTE and on protests held by the Tamil diaspora.

His film, detailing state procurement and Sinhalisation of the Tamil homeland, was screened at an international conference on land grabs earlier this month in London.

Land grabs, the Sri Lankan state’s forcible and militarised procurement of Tamil owned land in the North-East, has seen international condemnation with a resolution having been presented to the US Senate this week outlining “ongoing concerns regarding landownership and property restitution”.

The Chief Minister of the Northern Province CV Wigneswaran has stated that Tamil youth are being pushed into drugs and prostitution with the help of the Sri Lankan military, earlier this month.

Addressing the ‘Southwest Youth Association’ in Maanippai, Wigneswaran told the audience that brothels were being built with Tamil women as prostitutes and youths being pushed into using cocaine and other drugs.

Noting that problems on this scale were new to the Northern Province, he went on to add that these issues have led to Tamil youth abandoning their culture and tradition.

A constituent party from Sri Lanka’s ruling alliance announced that it was pleased over the decision to refuse a visa for the US Ambassador for Women’s Issues Catherine Russell.

The National Freedom Front, headed by Sri Lankan Minister Wimal Weerawamsa had stated they were pleased with the decision taken by the Sri Lankan government, even though External Affairs Ministry stated reports of a refusal were “erroneous”.

The United States had labelled the decision "regrettable".

Retired Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh has stated the Australian has been turning a blind eye to genocide, as he criticised the Australian government’s engagement with Sri Lanka.

Haigh, who was also member of the Refugee Review Tribunal, criticised Australia’s acceptance of “fiction” on the island, and went on to state that Australia’s asylum seeker policy, which deports Tamils to face torture in Sri Lanka, may make them complicit in the crime of genocide.

Extracts have been reproduced below. See the full piece in the Canberra Times here.

"Former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr and his successor Julie Bishop view the world as they want it to be rather than as it is. Bishop, like her predecessor, has engaged in transparent and clumsy denial in order to placate what she likes to term Australia's friends."

"The Australian government has adopted the fiction that the minority Tamils were the aggressors in the civil war, that the majority Sinhalese won the war, peace has been restored and the surly defeated Tamils must now accept the status quo and get on with life, accepting their position as a minority within mainstream Sinhala society."