Tamils in the North-East served and ate kanji today to mark the second day of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Week. 

In the week leading up to May 18, also known as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, Tamils hold commemoration events and serve kanji to remember the 169,796 people who went unaccounted for during the genocide at Mullivaikkal as well as the victim survivors. 

Mullivaikkal remembrance week was observed across the North with porridge distribution, protests, and tributes honoring the victims of the Tamil genocide

Photograph: Yardstick Films 

Britain's Foreign Office successfully stopped a retired mercenary being compelled to give evidence at a freedom of information tribunal in London. 

MP T. Ravikaran has condemned the government’s move to seize nearly 6,000 acres in the North, warning it would betray war-displaced Tamils and echo past oppressive regimes

Residents of Kinniyadi in the Valaichchenai region staged a protest last week, blocking a vehicle transporting excavated soil in opposition to a contentious land excavation project that locals claim is being carried out under the false pretext of a fish farming initiative.

Preparations are underway at Mullivaikkal memorial ground ahead of Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day which is marked by Tamils in the homeland and the diaspora.

Every year, Tamils gather at the memorial ground on May 18 to commemorate the 169,796 people who went unaccounted for in the final phase of the armed conflict. 

Two Tamil farmers have been remanded in custody while a 16-year-old student was released on bail, following their arrest near Kurunthurmalai, after a complaint lodged by a Sinhala Buddhist monk.

Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) leader and Member of Parliament Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam has hailed the results of Sri Lanka’s recent local government elections as a clear mandate in favour of Tamil nationalism, stating that the outcome represents a resounding rejection of ‘Sinhalese majoritarianism’ from the South.

Tamil landowners in Valikamam North staged a protest today, on full moon day, against the illegal Thaiyiddy Vihara built on their seized land, amid heavy police presence