The state-owned ailing airline declared a loss of 8.4 billion LKR over the 2024/2025 financial year, requiring an extra allocation of nearly 30 billion LKR to keep it afloat. 

The “Unextinguished Flame” vigil demanding justice for the Chemmani mass graves entered its second consecutive day on Tuesday, as Tamils gathered near the Jaffna junction in Chemmani to press for international accountability.

Tamil landowners in Valikamam North, Jaffna, continued their protest for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday, demanding the return of over 2,400 acres of land still occupied by the Sri Lankan military within the so-called ‘High Security Zone’ (HSZ).

A Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A320 has suffered multiple system failures of key instruments during a flight from Colombo to Singapore, forcing an emergency landing in Medan, Indonesia, after declaring a mayday to air traffic controllers. 

A demonstration under the banner “Rise for Freedom, Tamils” took place on Monday outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels, as Tamils gathered to demand international justice for the Tamil genocide and reaffirm their call for the liberation of Tamil Eelam.

A senior United Nations official has issued a grave warning on the deteriorating crisis in Sudan, stating that the risk of genocide remains “very high” as ethnically targeted violence continues to escalate. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Virginia Gamba, the UN Under-Secretary-General and Acting Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, expressed deep concern over ongoing atrocities committed by both warring factions in Sudan.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry has claimed that a “constructive discussion on domestic reconciliation processes” took place during a meeting with visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, despite years of inaction and sustained rejection of such mechanisms by Tamil victim-survivor communities.

The Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR), a Jaffna-based think tank organisation, has issued a strongly worded letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, urging him to avoid enabling Sri Lanka’s continued “denial, repression, and impunity” during his official visit to the island this week.

 

Dominic Premananth, a Tamil lawyer and human rights activist, has called on the UN High Commissioner Volker Türk to “speak to the affected Tamil people and see the truth” during his visit to the island this week.