Jaffna residents protest against Kakkaitheevu waste centre over alleged health and environmental hazards

Six Tamil and Muslim parties have agreed to establish a common platform to press Colombo on a new constitution, the long-delayed provincial council elections and unresolved land disputes, in what its architects call the first collective political network of the North-East, Malaiyaha and Muslim peoples in decades.

Nearly a decade after Sri Lanka established the Office on Missing Persons, a new ITJP report says the body has failed to investigate enforced disappearances, failed to use existing state records and left families trapped in another cycle of bureaucracy and denial.

The National People's Power's most senior Tamil figures have dismissed the newly formed six-party platform of Tamil and Muslim parties as doomed, corrupt and Colombo-bound, with a Jaffna MP branding its members "brokers", in a response that left untouched the platform's three demands, every one of them a pledge from the NPP's own manifesto.

When Argentina's players unfurled a banner reading "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" after their World Cup semifinal victory over England this week, the British state required no time for reflection. Within a day, Downing Street had urged FIFA to investigate, ministers had denounced the gesture, and the Prime Minister's spokesperson had delivered the line that "the World Cup might not be ours, but the Falkland Islands definitely are".

Eelam Tamils took their case for justice to a multicultural peace festival in the Piedmont town of Valdilana this month, mounting an exhibition on the Tamil genocide, and drew a pledge from one of Italy's foremost peace campaigners, who participants say committed to bringing Tamil history and the genocide into Italian schools nationally.

All 21 prisoners killed during the deadly violence at Negombo Prison were remand detainees awaiting trial and had not been convicted of any offence, according to Sri Lanka’s Department of Prisons.

A new report from the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) charts thirty years of Sri Lankan state obstruction at Chemmani, where over 400 sets of skeletal remains have now been identified and not one commander has been held criminally accountable, and finds that the officers named by their own convicted subordinates were not prosecuted but promoted, some rising to the highest ranks of the Sri Lankan army.