Events took place across the North-East today to mark 38 years since the death of LTTE political leader Thileepan, who undertook a hunger strike until death 38 years ago.
National People’s Power (NPP) parliamentarian Rajeewan Jayachandramurthy paid tribute at the newly opened Thiyaga Theepam Thileepan archive in Nallur, Jaffna, on Saturday evening.
Rajeewan visited the site, located near the Thiyaga Theepam memorial in Nallur, where he honoured a statue of Thileepan and toured the archive, which contains materials commemorating the LTTE political leader.
Today marks 38 years since the death of Lt Col Thileepan, a political wing leader of the LTTE who fasted to death, in a protest appealing to the Indian government to honour pledges made to the Tamil people.
Thileepan began his fast on the September 15, 1987, with 100,000 people gathered around the historic Nallur Kandwaswamy Temple in Jaffna.
Sri Lankan police say they have made the largest drug seizure in the island’s history, after 705 kilograms of heroin and crystal methamphetamine were uncovered during a raid in Tangalle this week.
The United States has expanded its military partnership with Sri Lanka by funding a new English Language Lab at the Sri Lanka Navy’s academy in Trincomalee, a Tamil district that remains heavily militarised more than sixteen years after the end of the armed conflict.
HSBC has announced it will sell its entire Sri Lankan retail banking business to Nations Trust Bank, as part of a global strategy to scale back less-profitable operations.
Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama today that 6,000 gold items recovered from the North-East during and after the armed conflict have now been handed over to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
The Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, began a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka this week, meeting with top military leaders in Colombo as both states pledged to deepen cooperation in the Indian Ocean.
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