Writing in The Diplomat last week, Tamil Guardian editor Thusiyan Nandakumar described Tamil frustration at the latest United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka, which has “been widely panned by observers as the weakest on Sri Lanka since such measures on accountability were first introduced” at the global body. 

Human rights advocate and lawyer Ranitha Gnanarajah has spent over a decade working at the intersection of justice and grief. Her work reflects both a legal and personal struggle, from families still searching for their disappeared loved ones to lands hiding mass graves beneath them. For Gnanarajah, the pursuit of justice has become an act of defiance against Sri Lankan state's refusal to reckon with the atrocities on the island, where the wounds of the past remain open. In 2021, she received the prestigious International Women of Courage Award, coinciding with the International Women's Day during a virtual event conducted by the United States Secretary of State. Speaking to the Tamil Guardian, she reflected with honesty and compassion on her journey, one that began within the lived struggles of her own people.

Displaced families in Sammanturai protest and appeal to the Sri Lankan president for the return of their ancestral farmlands

The Chairman of the Karai Thuraipattu Pradeshiya Sabha, Chinnarasa Logeswaran, has condemned the Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology’s ongoing seizure of Tamil farmlands in Mullaitivu, declaring that the “encroachment of farmlands long cultivated by the Tamil people can never be accepted under any circumstance.”

The Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha has unanimously rejected a request by the Sri Lankan Navy to acquire a two-acre plot of land in Keerimalai, Jaffna, for the installation of a radar system.

Farmers from Muthunagar and Kinniya in Trincomalee staged a demonstration this weekend, coinciding with Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to the district for an event at the occupying air force base.

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, a detailed reparations and compensation claim has been submitted by victims of a historic mass atrocity, the 1989 Valvettithurai massacre, in which at least 66 Tamil civilians were killed and 34 injured by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF).

Vanni District parliamentarian Thurairasa Ravikaran has condemned what he described as a “deliberate act of Tamil erasure” by the Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology, after new display boards falsely linking the Tamil heritage site of Kurunthurmalai to Buddhist history were installed earlier this month.

There was a time when it was the tradition of Eelam Tamils to regard the thuyilum illams, (LTTE cemeteries) where the heroes they saw as guardian deities rested, as temples.

The Sri Lankan military has come under renewed criticism after organising a blood donation drive in Mullaitivu, a Tamil district that remains one of the most heavily militarised regions on the island.