The final day of a relay hunger strike organised by the Association of Relatives of the Forcibly Disappeared in the North and East was held in Jaffna today, with campaigners demanding international justice for enforced disappearances and mass atrocities committed against Tamils.

Today marks the birthday of Balachandran Prabhakaran, the third child of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was executed by the Sri Lankan military during the final days of the Mullivaikkal massacre.

Sri Lankan police launched a violent assault on peaceful protesters in Mannar on Friday night, leaving priests, women and men hospitalised, in a fresh escalation of tensions over the controversial wind power project.

Events took place across the North-East today to mark 38 years since the death of LTTE political leader Thileepan, who undertook a hunger strike until death 38 years ago.

Today marks 38 years since the death of Lt Col Thileepan, a political wing leader of the LTTE who fasted to death, in a protest appealing to the Indian government to honour pledges made to the Tamil people.

Thileepan began his fast on the September 15, 1987, with 100,000 people gathered around the historic Nallur Kandwaswamy Temple in Jaffna.

On September 13, 1987, Thileepan put forward five demands  to the Indian government following the signing of the Indo-Lanka accord in July 1987: 

Thousands gathered in Chennai on Friday for a massive rally against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with speakers and demonstrators also drawing parallels to the Tamil struggle and calling for solidarity with Eelam Tamils.

At the UN Human Rights Council this week, there was a range of responses from member states over Sri Lanka’s human rights record and the UN’s evidence-gathering mandate, with the EU, UK and several partners reiterating the need for accountability whilst others including Russia, Belarus, Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela and others attacked international scrutiny and urged deference to Colombo’s “domestic processes”.

Protest in North-East demands justice for the forcibly disappeared.

Following the arrest of Ranil Wickremesinghe, we look into the former Sri Lankan president's record and the reasons behind his arrest.

On 20 August 2006, a young Tamil Catholic priest Father Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown disappeared along with his lay assistant in the Sri Lankan military occupied Jaffna peninsula. Nineteen years later, his fate remains unknown, shrouded by silence and unanswered questions.