Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s call at the United Nations for a ceasefire in Gaza drips with hypocrisy. The very man who stood on platforms railing against peace for Tamils now speaks the language of international humanitarianism. For Tamils on this island, his words are hollow and an insult.
Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake delivered his first address to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly this week, outlining his government’s priorities on poverty reduction, corruption, and digitalisation, while failing to address mounting calls for accountability for mass atrocities committed against Tamils.
Former Karachchi Divisional Council member S. Jeevan has called on the Sri Lankan government to withdraw its troops from LTTE cemeteries – Maaveerar Thuyilum Illam - across the North-East, warning that only then would Tamils be able to pay homage freely at these sites of remembrance.
Sri Lankan police have arrested three men in connection with the killing of Sinhala nationalist activist Dan Priyasad, including a former soldier suspected of carrying out the shooting.
Bullets buried in the grounds of Mandaitivu, where construction of the proposed Jaffna International Cricket Stadium is underway, were exhumed this week with the permission of the Kayts court.
Over 1,800 people have been killed in road accidents across Sri Lanka in the first nine months of 2025, according to police data, with the mounting death toll now including foreign tourists.
Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has claimed that a statement given to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) by the father of a child killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings could be “harmful for the country".
Tamil residents of Valikamam West are being forced to buy drinking water after the Sri Lankan navy and army extracted tens of thousands of litres daily from village wells, leaving them saline, warned local council member I. Nagaranchini.
