A remembrance event for Lt. Col. Kumarappa and Lt. Col. Pulendran, two senior Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leaders, and ten others who died in 1987, was held in Theeruvil, Jaffna, organised by the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF).

The United Kingdom paid tribute to Dr Kasipillai Manoharan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this week, honouring the Tamil father who spent nearly two decades fighting for justice for his son and four other students murdered by Sri Lankan security forces in Trincomalee in 2006.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a new resolution extending the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) mandate on Sri Lanka for a further two years, despite growing Tamil criticism that the text has been diluted and fails to deliver justice.

Tamils in Thaiyiddy, Jaffna, once again took to the streets today demanding the removal of the Tissa Vihara, a Buddhist temple that has been illegally constructed in the Valikamam area.

Tamil youth across the diaspora marked the 38th remembrance of Lt Col Thileepan this September with a month-long international campaign that combined art, political activism, and protest by activist group Phoenix: The Next Generation.

Farmers in Muthunagar, Trincomalee, have entered the eighteenth consecutive day of a satyagraha protest, braving torrential rains as they continue to demand the return of their seized farmlands from the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA).

At the United Nations General Assembly last week, Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Despite the rhetoric, Dissanayake pointedly avoided naming the state responsible for those atrocities: Israel. This was not an oversight, but a calculated choice.

The Mannar District Federation of Public Organizations has condemned the Sri Lankan government’s one-sided decision on the Mannar wind power project, calling it undemocratic and a violation of fundamental rights

More than 140 organisations and individuals have jointly condemned the continuing surveillance, harassment and intimidation of Tamil photojournalist Kumanan Kanapathipillai, calling on the Sri Lankan government to end its campaign of persecution against him and other Tamil- journalists in the North-East.