Local residents restore Thileepan memorial 

Sri Lankan police removed a photograph of Lt. Col. Thileepan and flags from a memorial site in Trincomalee yesterday, following four days of commemorations by local residents. 

The sixth day of Lt. Col. Thileepan's hunger strike was commemorated this morning Nallur, Jaffna, with local residents gathering to remember his protest. 

The LTTE's political wing leader launched his hunger strike on 15th September 1987, to call on the Indian government to honour their pledges made under the Indo-Lanka accord. 

Tamil Guardian hosted a sold-out screening of the film 'Little Jaffna' last week in London, which was followed by a question-and-answer session with director Lawrence Valin and several cast members.

Former Sri Lankan president and accused war criminal Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has said she will vacate her official residence in Colombo within two months, following the enactment of the Presidents’ Entitlements (Repeal) Act, which stripped ex-heads of state of housing and other privileges.

Her remarks come after former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was compelled to leave his Wijerama residence under the same law, an eviction he and his allies decried as “political terrorism.”

The fifth day of Lt. Col. Thileepan's hunger strike was commemorated in Nallur, Jaffna, this morning. 

Thileepan started his hunger strike on 11th September 1987, to call on the Indian government to deliver on its pledges to the Tamil people. After refusing food and water for 11 days, Thileepan passed away.  

Tamils in Vavuniya gathered this morning to mark the 38th years since Lt. Col. Thileepan's hunger strike that was launched to call on the Indian government to deliver on its pledges to the Tamil people. 

Tamil families of the disappeared, activists and local politicians including Vavuniya municipal council chairman S Kandeepan, lit a flame in Thileepan's memory and garlanded his portrait. 

A 34-year-old Tamil man has died by suicide after being brutally assaulted by villagers in Ramboda, Nuwara Eliya, who mistook him for a thief. Video footage of the assault was later circulated on social media, prompting the victim to take his own life.