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  A total of 302 skeletal remains have been identified during the excavations at the Chemmani mass grave site so far, whilst 298 have been completely exhumed.  Eight skeletal remains, including those of two children, were exhumed on Sunday (June 7), during the 18th day of the third phase of excavations. According to a legal expert from the excavation site, six additional skeletal…

Tamil activist assaulted ahead of Mullivaikkal commemoration

Social activist Selvakumar was brutally assaulted in Kudumbimalai, Batticaloa, while informing locals about the cancellation of a Mullivaikkal commemoration event

Protest marks ten years since Vithiya’s murder

A peaceful protest marking the tenth anniversary of Vithya's murder turned tense in Velanai as police attempted to collect participants' names, sparking concerns over intimidation

Sri Lanka lodges protest with Canadian envoy over Tamil Genocide Monument

The Sri Lankan government summoned the Canadian High Commissioner in Colombo this week to formally object to the recent unveiling of the Tamil Genocide Monument in Brampton, Canada, escalating diplomatic tensions over growing international recognition of the Tamil genocide.

Mullivaikkal genocide commemorated in Denmark

Tamils in Grinsted, Denmark, held a memorial on May 11 to commemorate the victims of the Mullivakkal genocide. 

Candles were lit and flowers were laid to remember the tens of thousands of Tamils that were killed by Sri Lanka's military offensive in the final months of the armed conflict. 

Gary Anandasangaree appointed as Canada’s next Public Safety Minister

Tamil Canadian MP Gary Anandasangaree has been appointed today as the Minister of Public Safety in Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet.

Anandasangaree will oversee key agencies tasked with Canada’s national security, including the Canada Border Services Agency, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. 

Second day of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Week marked in the North-East

Tamils in the North-East served and ate kanji today to mark the second day of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Week. 

In the week leading up to May 18, also known as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, Tamils hold commemoration events and serve kanji to remember the 169,796 people who went unaccounted for during the genocide at Mullivaikkal as well as the victim survivors. 

Kanji served across Jaffna as Mullivaikkal Remembrance Week begins

Mullivaikkal remembrance week was observed across the North with porridge distribution, protests, and tributes honoring the victims of the Tamil genocide

Foreign Office helped former British mercenary linked to atrocities in Sri Lanka avoid court case

KMS

Photograph: Yardstick Films 

Britain's Foreign Office successfully stopped a retired mercenary being compelled to give evidence at a freedom of information tribunal in London. 

Government lawyers managed to block a witness application made by Declassified to summon Major David Walker, a former SAS officer who co-founded Keenie Meenie Services (KMS), a mercenary company active in the 1980s.

‘They fled with only a loincloth — now you ask for documents?’ Ravikaran slams land grab Gazette

MP T. Ravikaran has condemned the government’s move to seize nearly 6,000 acres in the North, warning it would betray war-displaced Tamils and echo past oppressive regimes

Residents protest soil excavation in Batticaloa, demand end to controversial land project

Residents of Kinniyadi in the Valaichchenai region staged a protest last week, blocking a vehicle transporting excavated soil in opposition to a contentious land excavation project that locals claim is being carried out under the false pretext of a fish farming initiative.