New photograph of Isaipriya published in report.

"Eyewitnesses say it was not just the LTTE political wing leaders who were targeted, but at least 102 administrative, financial, political, humanitarian leaders of the LTTE, in addition to unarmed military wing cadres and non-combatants such as children who also surrendered later the same day. There were also other LTTE figures who surrendered in the days before and after 18 May who have disappeared or been killed in the custody of the Sri Lankan security forces

It appears to have been part of a coldblooded plan to wipe out any future Tamil representatives.

Updated 22:13 BST

Sri Lankan police officers forcibly disrupted a remembrance event today held outside the office of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in Kaithady, Jaffna, kicking and stamping out a flame of remembrance lit to commemorate the thousands killed in Mullivaikkal 5 years ago, whilst shouting in Sinhala.

NPC Councillors, Ananthy Sasitharan and Mr. Shivajilingham  were holding the commemorative event just outside the office premises, as the gates were padlocked with security forces surrounding the area.

Mr. Shivajilingham was in the process of lighting the flame, when police officers rushed in, throwing the lamp to the ground. 

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is not planning to attend the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer, according to a report on the insidethegames website.

The website says a “potentially harmful diplomatic challenge” for the games will likely be avoided if Rajapaksa stays away, after letters expressing concern about the Sri Lankan president’s visit were sent to Foreign Secretary by the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.

India’s Union Ministry this week extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has been extended for another five years. 

“The Government of India, under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, has proscribed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an ‘Unlawful Association’. The declaration of LTTE as an ‘Unlawful Association’ has been extended for a further period of five years with effect from May 14, 2014,” said a notification made public on Thursday.

The proscription of the LTTE was last extended in 2012.

The notification in 2012 said that the LTTE continued to be working towards “the Eelam cause” and that the government has information that “the activities of the LTTE remnant cadres, dropouts, sympathisers, supporters who have been traced out recently in the State of Tamil Nadu suggest that the cadres sent to Tamil Nadu would ultimately be utilised by the LTTE for unlawful activities”, The Hindu reported.

The Jaffna University Science Teachers’ Association has condemned the closure of the university over the period covering the anniversary of the end of the armed conflict, in a statement released on Wednesday.
The statement said that death threats were issued against several student leaders and professors, who were accused of “guiding students to support terrorism”.

“Why should Tamils speaking of the war be such an explosive issue five years after it ended, a war in which neither side owned a monopoly on terrorism? The answer has to do with the ideological polarization that remains because there is even less hope now of a political settlement to the national question that has been with us from Independence. Let us not forget that the Government is to observe the same anniversary in grand style in Matara, as the sole author of victory over the LTTE, and with all the pomp and circumstance that goes on around it,” the statement said.