Writing to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalithaa has called for an “immediate and emphatic response” to the repeated arrests of Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.

Her letter comes after yet another incident where 17 Tamil Nadu fishermen were detained by Sri Lankan security forces over the weekend.

In her letter to Modi, Jayalalithaa, who commands the third biggest party in India, said,

“My government looks to your immediate and emphatic response to this issue and to ensure that it is taken up at the highest levels of the Sri Lankan Government, so that our fishermen are not repeatedly arrested and abducted in the high seas of the Palk Bay.”

Slamming the “hostile actions of the Lankan Navy”, the Chief Minister went on to add,

“These continued and repeated instances of apprehension and abduction of our fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy are adding to the very heightened sense of unrest and resentment among the Tamil Nadu fishermen”.

The probe by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is “utterly uncalled for”, says Sri Lanka.

“We have taken the view that this investigation is utterly uncalled for,” UN Ambassador Palitha Kohona, said according to the Associated Press.

“It’s like this poor third-world country is being punished in an unforgiving manner for having defeated a terrorist group” he said.

Kohona has previously said that surrendering LTTE members, who are thought to have been shot by the military, were actually shot in the back by Tamil fighters.

But Kohona now distanced himself from those comments, saying that he doesn't personally know what happened.

The Bodu Bala Sena said today that the US has revoked the visa of Galagoda Gnanasara, the leader of the organisation.

BBS Coordinator Dilantha Withanage told the Daily Mirror that an official form the US embassy in Colombo called Gnanasara on Friday and informed him of the State Department’s decision to revoke his 5-year multiple entry visa.

The Tamil National Alliance has received confirmation for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Indian government, reported the Daily Mirror.

Spokesperson Suresh Premachandran told the Daily Mirror on Sunday that Modi had agreed to the TNA’s request for a meeting, issued by party leader R Sampanthan soon after the prime minister was sworn in.

“Most probably, we will go to India by the middle of next month. The dates are yet to be finalised. We will receive the final confirmation of dates shortly,” he said.

The Tamil people are in doubt over the Sri Lankan justice system said the Chief Minister of the Northern Province C.V. Wigneswaran, because pro-government cases are resolved, whereas those against government policies are delayed, reports Uthayan.

Drawing attention to the on-going cases of over 2000 filed regarding land grabs in Valikaamam North, Justice Wigneswaran said Tamils had lost faith in the system.

'This Land Belongs to the Army’ is a strong documentary about the manner in which the lands in the traditional Tamil homelands of the North-East of the island of Sri Lanka have been appropriated by the government and the military.

Made by Indian journalist and filmmaker Maga Tamizh Prabhagaran, the documentary features first-hand testimony from victims and an exclusive discussion with a Sri Lankan Army soldier about the use of chemical and other bombs to support the logic that the land belongs to the Army and that the Tamils can “live in [the] country” only provided they do not “demand undue things”, to use the words of former military commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka,.

Launched in January this year at the UK Houses of Parliament, the documentary has gone on to be broadcast around the world, as well as being selected for the 7th International Documentaries and Short Film Festival of Kerala taking place next month and the Mediteran Film Festival in Bosnia in August. It was also entered into the International Festival of Local Televisions in Slovakia earlier this month.