Right : Dinesh Gunawardane 

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Dinesh Gunawardane, is set to meet the British High Commission and will convey the government’s “displeasure” over the projection of a Karthigaipoo on to the UK Houses of Parliament.

The leader of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) G G Ponnambalam warned that Sri Lanka’s continued denial of Tamil rights would bring about further instability and “compromise your own sovereignty,” as he called for the recognition of the Tamil nation and Tamil rights.

Addressing parliament last month, the lawmaker said that “Sri Lanka has used its strategic importance since 1948 to try and undermine its own population or a section of its own population, particularly the Tamil people”.

Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran warned that Sri Lanka would face “serious repercussions if you resile from international commitments” as he spoke in parliament on UN resolutions on accountability for mass atrocities and the devolution of powers to the North-East.

The lawmaker recalled the several commitments Sri Lanka has made to the UN Human Rights Council on accountability and to the UNJ Secretary-General and India  on a political solution to the island’s ethnic conflict.

A ground breaking new Tamil Community Centre (TCC) is set to open in Canada, home to the largest Eelam Tamil diaspora in the world, to act as a multi-purpose space, with aims to provide vital community services benefiting both the Tamil and non-Tamil community in Toronto.

The TCC facility will serve to “enhance the quality of life, health and wellbeing by providing equitable access to community services” said the City of Toronto, adding “it is intended that the TCC be a dynamic, innovative, multi-purpose, and nondenominational facility incorporating spaces and services to help address the current and growing needs of the diverse Canadian Tamil community, as well as Black, Indigenous and other equity-seeking groups by acting as a community hub”.

Fitch Ratings announced this morning that it has downgraded the Bank of Ceylon's (BOC) Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings just days after it announced a similar downgrade for Sri Lanka, with the government in Colombo lashing out at the agency for its decision.

Tamil residents in a Mullaitivu village in have stepped up their protests demanding the release of land for them to live in, by taking to the streets this week

More than 50 families are living without land to live on in Venavil village, which is located under the Puthukkudiyiruppu Divisional Secretariat of the Mullaitivu District.

After US President-elect Joe Biden announced Antony Blinken as his pick for Secretary of State, we take a look at his previous comments on Sri Lanka, his internationalist and interventionist position and his remarks on American global leadership.

The Sri Lankan navy arrested at least seven persons, including women and children, who tried to flee the island and escape to India by way of sea through Mannar on Saturday.  

Five persons, including a 29 year old man, a 29 year old woman, a 38 year old woman and two 9 year old female children, were arrested by the navy in the waters near Pesalai village in Mannar. Further, two men, one aged 32 and the other 37, were arrested on charges of arranging the travel for those trying to leave the country. 

Tamils across France have left tributes for a Tamil family after a Tamil woman and four children were murdered on October 3rd in the Parisian neighbourhood of Noisy-le-Sec

The man accused of the massacre, said to be the husband, father and uncle of the deceased; is alleged to have killed his wife, his 18 month old and 5 year old children, and his 9 year old and 11 year old nephews. The sister and brother-in-law of the accused as well as two other of their children (13 & 15 years old) managed to survive the attack.

The former head of Sri Lanka’s army Sarath Fonseka stated in parliament that he “would have been delighted” if cyclone Burevi had occurred during Maaveerar Naal last week, as storms and rains battered the Tamil North-East.

Cyclone Burevi, which has severely hit the Tamil occupied North-East, has impacted tens of thousands of people across the Tamil homeland, destroying homes and displacing families.