Flyers targetting the husband of the TNA Northern Provincial Councillor Ananthy Sasitharan, have appeared across the Jaffna district this week, reports Uthayan.

Carrying a list of war crimes, the flyer alleged that Ms. Sasitharan's husband, Ezhilan was responsible.

The flyers appear amidst a series of recent threats and accusations made by the Sri Lankan government at Ms. Sasitharan, who played a prominent role in calling for an international investigation at the UN Human Rights Council last month.

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Former Tamil female cadres were rounded up for a meeting in Vavuniya by Sri Lankan military personnel on Thursday morning and later released, local sources told Tamil Guardian within the last hour.

Armed military personnel arrived at their houses on Thursday morning and instructed them to come outside before taking them away without providing any explanation, said one of the woman, who was anxious to remain anonymous fearing reprisal. 

The group of former cadres were taken by the military to an unknown location where they were given food before being taken back to their homes.

“There is no safety for us here," she said.

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Pictures: Tamil Guardian

Dozens of leading Tamil business owners and their supporters protested this morning against the increasing number of illegal businesses, set up by people from southern Sri Lanka.

Demonstrators said that business people from the south are flooding the local market with cheap goods without the necessary legal permissions, putting Tamils at an economic disadvantage.

Sri Lanka’s president said earlier today that certain countries are not pleased with Sri Lanka’s independent rise.

Speaking at a Buddhist ceremony in Anuradhapura, Mahinda Rajapaksa said that Sri Lanka needs to accept the difficult challenge of protecting their heritage and culture.

“The ban is a very serious and negative development, effectively criminalising legitimate democratic dissent within Sri Lanka and making it harder to challenge government policies from outside the island,”

“It appears designed in part to punish those Tamils inside and outside Sri Lanka who organized in support of the UNHRC resolution."

The system requiring Tamil fishermen in the north to acquire passes from military personal before setting out to sea will be reintroduced, reported the Uthayan.

The pass system, which was gradually stopped after the end of the armed conflict, caused enormous hardship to families relying on the fishing trade.