The Australian government has handed over a high-performance Stabicraft vessel to the Sri Lanka Coast Guard, marking the commencement of Disi Rela 2, the second phase of a joint maritime security initiative purportedly aimed at "combating illegal maritime activity".

Human skeletal remains, including skulls, have been discovered near the Karkovalam military camp in Jaffna, prompting a police and forensic investigation

The Kopay Divisional Secretary has confirmed that the Sri Lankan police are illegally occupying private Tamil-owned lands in Jaffna district, refusing to vacate the area despite longstanding demands from landowners.

Tamil lawyers have accused the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the occupying Sri Lankan Police Station in Palaly of misleading the Mallakam Magistrate’s Court regarding the arrests of individuals protesting against the illegal construction of the Tissa Vihara on Tamil-owned land in Thaiyiddy.

The 39th anniversary of the Verugal massacre was marked this week in a solemn commemoration in the Verugal-Poonagar area of Trincomalee. The event was organised by relatives of the victims, civil activists, and local community members to honour the memory of the 21 civilians brutally killed on 12 June 1986 while transporting dry food to displaced Tamils.

Tamil civil society activists and members of the Batticaloa District Coordination Committee travelled to Amparai this week, where they documented the construction of a new Buddha statue near the historic Ukanthamalai Murugan Temple.

A vocal Tamil protest greeted Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Berlin on Thursday, as he met with senior German officials, amidst calls for accountability over mass atrocities committed against Tamils.

This week marks 39 years since 31 Eelam Tamil Fishermen were brutally killed by the Sri Lankan Navy, in what has been dubbed the Mandaitivu massacre

To date, no one has been held accountable for the murders.