Sri Lanka's police chief, who was suspended after the Easter Sunday bombings, has accused the president of failing to prevent the attacks. 

Inspector-General Pujith Jayasundara submitted a 20 page complaint to the Supreme Court stating there were communication gaps between the intelligence agencies and pointing to Sirisena as being ultimately responsible. 

"The head of the SIS, Nilantha Jayawardena, did not take seriously the intelligence shared by neighbouring India which warned of an impending attack by the NTJ," Jayasundara said in the complaint, AFP reported. 

A Tamil civil society organisation in Mannar was raided by the Sri Lankan army and harassed by a senior army official on Thursday.

The Mannar Social and Economic Development Organisation (MSEDO), a group that has supported land rights campaigns around Mannar was subjected to a sudden search operation involving dozens of army personnel.

Despite the staff acquiescing to the search, the senior army official present threatened and verbally abused the staff present and ordered them to switch off the office’s CCTV camera.

<p>A Sri Lankan army personnel was killed and two others severe injured from an explosion in Palaly, reportedly caused by a land mine in the occupied area.</p> <p>The personnel were clearing some land within the army camp’s premises, reportedly setting off a landmine when attempting to move a large rock.</p> <p>One personnel died on the spot from the impact. The other two were admitted to hospital.</p>

On midnight 31^st May 1981, the Jaffna Public Library, famous for being the crucible of Tamil literature and heritage, was set ablaze by Sri Lankan security forces and state-sponsored mobs. The burning has since been marked by Eelam Tamils as an act of genocide.

Over 95,000 unique and irreplaceable Tamil palm leaves (ola), manuscripts, parchments, books, magazines and newspapers, housed within an impressive building inspired by ancient Dravidian architecture, were destroyed during the burning. Some texts that were kept in the library, such as the Yalpanam Vaipavama (a history of Jaffna), were literally irreplaceable, being the only copies in existence. It was one of the largest libraries in Asia.

A senior Buddhist monk, Athuraliye Rathana today launched a hunger strike in Kandy calling for the removal of a Muslim minister and two Muslim governors from their posts. 

The massacre of 63 people at the Alvai Muththumari Amman temple by the Sri Lankan army in 1987 was remembered on Wednesday, 32 years on. 

Vavuniya residents have been angered by the Sri Lankan army’s construction of a welcome arch to the district with images of soldiers and slogans exclusively in Sinhala.

The military arch was erected a few yards in front of an old traditional arch which marked entry into the Vavuniya district from the south.

Residents of Vavuniya expressed anger at the region’s Tamil politicians saying they were blindly allowing Sinhalisation to take place, especially through the military forces and government agencies.

The victims of the Easter Sunday bombings at the Zion church in Batticaloa were remembered last week by a local pre-school. 

Sri Lanka's president, Maithripala Sirisena was forced to deny that he knew of the Easter Sunday bombings beforehand amid increasing scrutiny over why the country failed to prevent the attacks despite repeated warnings from other states. 

In a statement, the president's media division, said that the Defence Secretary nor the Inspector General of Police had informed him of warnings issued by India ahead of the attack. 

Over 250 people were killed when Islamist extremist suicide bombers supportive of Islamic State detonated devices at luxury hotels and churches on Easter Sunday. 

As part of a series marking the atrocities of Mullivaikkal, we invited activists, journalists, and writers from around the world to share their experiences and reflections a decade on.