The Chairman of the Valikamam East Pradeshiya Sabha, Thiyagarajah Nirosh, was questioned by occupying Sri Lankan police on Thursday and had a statement recorded regarding preparations for a memorial event marking the 52nd anniversary of the death of Tamil martyr Pon Sivakumaran.
Sri Lanka's United National Party (UNP) has accused the National People's Power (NPP) government of attempting to undermine Buddhism and interfere in the affairs of the Buddhist clergy, as controversy continues over proposed reforms aimed at addressing misconduct within the Buddhist Sangha.
Investigators identified eight additional skeletal remains at the Chemmani mass grave site on Thursday, bringing the total number of victims uncovered during ongoing excavations to 283.
Relatives of victims and members of the public gathered in Verugal this week to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the Vattavan massacre, one of a number of deadly attacks on Tamils in the region, as families renewed calls for truth, justice and accountability.
Calls for the release of Tamil rapper HipHop Sangee continued to grow this week, with Tamil civil society organisations planning a protest in Kilinochchi and parliamentarians from both Tamil and Sinhala parties raising concerns over his detention under Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
A Tamil rapper from Kilinochchi has been arrested and remanded under Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) after sharing videos of a musical performance on social media.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a further US$695 million disbursement to Sri Lanka following the completion of the fifth and sixth reviews of the country's Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme, bringing total IMF support since the island's 2022 sovereign debt default to approximately US$2.4 billion.
Investigators identified eight additional sets of human skeletal remains at the Chemmani-Siththupathy mass grave site in Jaffna on Tuesday, bringing the total number of victims uncovered during the ongoing excavation to 270.
The Jaffna Bar Association has written to Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake expressing "complete disbelief and shock" over the transfer of Jaffna High Court Judge A. G. Alexraja, while the Northern Province Governor's Office has denied any connection to the move.
Court-supervised excavations at the Chemmani-Siththupathy mass grave site in Jaffna resumed on Monday, with investigators uncovering another human skeleton and bringing the total number of skeletal remains identified at the site to 262.
Student unions at the University of Jaffna have condemned the vandalism of a Vesak lantern displayed during a recent Buddhist celebration and rejected attempts to portray the incident as an act carried out by the Tamil student community.
Nearly 300 Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have been accused of abusing children over the past three years, with charges filed against 27 of them, according to a report published by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
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