As controversy grew around hundreds of shipping containers that Sri Lankan authorities reportedly allowed into the island without undergoing the usual inspection process, a Tamil lawmaker has claimed that they contained weapons belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Velupillai Prabhakaran.

Mullaitivu Magistrate Court released two Tamil farmers from Kurunthurmalai who were arrested for farming, following a complaint by a Sinhala Buddhist monk alleging damage to an “archaeological” site.

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath, met with the Ambassador of Palestine to Sri Lanka, Ihab Khalil last week, even as his government continued to defend its growing ties with Israel.

Leaders of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) and the Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) held a meeting in Jaffna on Sunday, where they discussed forging a broader political alignment and reiterated their shared commitment to achieving a federal constitutional settlement recognising the North-East as a merged Tamil homeland.

A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto – blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.

Excavation work at the Chemmani-Sindubathi burial site in Jaffna’s Nallur division has led to the recovery of human remains believed to belong to an infant under the age of one, fuelling calls for international oversight into excavating mass graves on the island.

Families of the disappeared staged a protest in Jaffna on Thursday, demanding international monitoring of excavations at the Chemmani-Sindubathi mass grave site, where bodies continue to be uncovered.

Students at the University of Jaffna gathered on Thursday to mark the 51st anniversary of the martyrdom of Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran, recognized as the first martyr of the Tamil liberation struggle.

Today marks 51 years since the death of Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran, the first Tamil to die in the liberation struggle.