Sri Lankan police have removed the drinking water and toilet facilities used by elderly Tamil protesters at Palaly Junction, where landowners displaced for 36 years have entered a sixth week of demonstrations demanding the return of their military-occupied land.

The six Tamil-speaking parties that formed a common platform this month have written to Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake requesting a meeting on issues affecting Tamil, Malaiyaha Tamil and Muslim communities, and plan to meet the opposition leader and diplomats.

Skeletal remains found without skulls, and a body wearing a raincoat, are among the latest discoveries at the Chemmani mass grave, as Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department told a court it had not yet been established whether a crime took place at the site.

Tamil parliamentarians have marked the 43rd anniversary of the Black July pogrom, saying that four decades of political change in Sri Lanka have brought neither justice nor accountability for the thousands of Tamils killed in July 1983.

Uma Kumaran, the first person of Eelam Tamil heritage elected to the British parliament, has been appointed a Foreign Office minister, taking a post in the department that sets London's foreign policy after pressing it from the backbenches over Chemmani and accountability for the Tamil genocide.

Sri Lankan goods will face a 10% import tariff in the US from Friday, following the country’s measures to ban imports linked to forced labour

Civil society representatives in Jaffna have appealed to European Union ambassadors to press the Sri Lankan government to revoke the 2013 gazette acquiring 6,317 acres in Valikamam North, as displaced landowners enter a fourth month of weekly protests demanding the return of their land.

Fishermen from Delft have publicly appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay to halt incursions by trawlers from the Indian state, saying nets worth millions of rupees have been destroyed and that affected families have no avenue for compensation.

A European Union delegation visited the Chemmani mass grave excavation site in Jaffna on Wednesday, observing the court-supervised excavation and receiving updates on the investigation into a site that has become the largest mass grave ever uncovered on the island, as the number of sets of human remains identified there rose to 471.

A large number of Britain's new cabinet's members have addressed Tamil audiences, tabled parliamentary questions or spoken in the House of Commons on Sri Lanka over the past seventeen years. We look back on their record.

Today marks 43 years since the horrors of the anti-Tamil pogrom of 1983, when thousands of Tamils were killed by Sinhala mobs backed by the then UNP government and state forces.

Relatives of the forcibly disappeared confronted a European Union delegation visiting the Chemmani mass grave, demanding recognition of the Tamil genocide and an international investigation, and dismissing the delegation's response as falling short of their expectations.

A European Union delegation will visit the Chemmani mass grave in Jaffna on Wednesday after a court granted access, as excavations enter their 92nd day and the number of remains recovered rises to 454, amid sustained calls for international oversight of the investigation.