Some 500 Sinhala Buddhist monks gathered in Colombo on 20 February 2026 for a “Maha Sangha Convention” at the headquarters of the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress (ACBC), adopting a ten-point declaration that reasserts the primacy of Buddhism within the Sri Lankan state.

The Oxford Union has cancelled a planned address by Sri Lankan MP Namal Rajapaksa, following mounting pressure from British Tamils and student organisations across the country.

A protest was held in Jaffna to demand justice for a Tamil teenager who was shot dead by Sri Lankan police earlier this month. 

British Tamil students and youth organisations have expressed widespread outrage after Namal Rajapaksa was invited to address the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union next week, with plans for protests already underway across the United Kingdom.

Sri Lankan police are facing fresh accusations of attempting to obscure accountability following the fatal shooting of a Tamil teenager in Jaffna, amid claims that authorities have misrepresented the boy’s age and sought to intimidate his family into silence.

A vigil and mass protest was held in Kilinochchi today as Tamils across the North-East marked Sri Lanka’s ‘Independence Day’ as a day of mourning rather than celebration.

A large protest was held in Nedunkerni in Vavuniya against the Sri Lankan government’s proposed Kivul Oya Reservoir Project, with demonstrators warning that the scheme is being used to colonise the Tamil homeland with Sinhala settlers and push demographic change in the area.

While New Delhi and Brussels have framed the agreement as a historic partnership covering nearly a quarter of global GDP, the implications for Sri Lanka are far more troubling, with risks of Colombo being further marginalised within an already fragile economic landscape.

Veteran Eelam Tamil activist Thambithurai Muthukumarasamy passed away in the United States earlier this month, bringing to a close the life of a man who spent decades on the frontlines of human rights advocacy.

A group of United States lawmakers have written to the US State Department urging renewed action on accountability for atrocities committed against the Tamil people, including international investigations into genocide, and support for the right of Eelam Tamils to self-determination through a democratic referendum.