Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath, met with the Ambassador of Palestine to Sri Lanka, Ihab Khalil last week, even as his government continued to defend its growing ties with Israel.

Leaders of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) and the Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) held a meeting in Jaffna on Sunday, where they discussed forging a broader political alignment and reiterated their shared commitment to achieving a federal constitutional settlement recognising the North-East as a merged Tamil homeland.

Excavation work at the Chemmani-Sindubathi burial site in Jaffna’s Nallur division has led to the recovery of human remains believed to belong to an infant under the age of one, fuelling calls for international oversight into excavating mass graves on the island.

Families of the disappeared staged a protest in Jaffna on Thursday, demanding international monitoring of excavations at the Chemmani-Sindubathi mass grave site, where bodies continue to be uncovered.

Students at the University of Jaffna gathered on Thursday to mark the 51st anniversary of the martyrdom of Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran, recognized as the first martyr of the Tamil liberation struggle.

Today marks 51 years since the death of Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran, the first Tamil to die in the liberation struggle. 

Sivakumaran was a member of the Tamil Manavar Peravai (or Tamil Student Federation, TSF) and a leading militant in the early armed Tamil struggle. With decades of Sri Lankan state repression and deadly anti-Tamil pogroms already having taken place, Tamil militant movements began to form. Sivakumaran was involved in assassination attempts on both Somaweera Chandrasiri and Alfred Duraiappah.

Students at the University of Jaffna held a protest on Tuesday, demanding the immediate and unconditional release of two Tamil farmers from Mullaitivu who have been arrested whilst farming their own land, following a complaint by a Sinhala Buddhist monk.

The ITAK and TNPF held a key meeting in Kokkuvil, Jaffna today to discuss the formation of local government administrations

On 21 May 2025, The Jerusalem Post published an interview with Israeli security expert Moshe Elad. He claimed that Sri Lanka’s military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009 offers a model for eliminating Hamas. “Sri Lanka did it without a Supreme Court or B’Tselem,” he said. The subtext was clear: Israel should replicate the same path, minus legal oversight, to achieve total victory.

Vanni District Member of Parliament, Thurairasa Ravikaran, has accused key Sri Lankan state institutions of unlawfully seizing ancestral Tamil lands in the North-East and obstructing efforts to return them, despite repeated appeals from local communities and elected representatives.