As Tamils across their homelands held protests marking Sri Lanka's 77th Independence Day today as a Black Day, students at the University of Jaffna replaced the Sri Lankan lion flag that usually flies at the entrance with a black flag.
On Sri Lanka's 77th Independence Day, Tamils across the North-East marked it as "Black Day" with protests demanding justice for the Tamil genocide and self-determination.
Udaya Gammanpila, leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), has accused the Sri Lankan government of orchestrating a "new drama" to implicate former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former State Intelligence Services (SIS) Director Major General Suresh Sallay in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.
Former Deputy Speaker Ajith Rajapakshe has called for the preservation of former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s body for public display after his demise, in a way to honour his legacy despite the massacres he oversaw.
Following a supposed lack of police resources, the Sri Lankan military has been called in to help control illegal sand mining in the Vadamarachchi and Thenmarachchi regions, despite their previous complicity in such activities.
Sri Lanka’s Attorney General has filed indictments against Namal Rajapaksa, the son of accused war criminal Mahinda Rajapaksa, over allegations of misappropriating an investment from an Indian real estate company.
The Governor of the Northern Province, N. Vethanayakan, has issued a press release addressing the controversy surrounding the Tissa Vihara, located in Kankesanthurai, Jaffna, where private landowners have called for the removal of an illegally constructed Buddhist temple and the return of their lands.
Sri Lanka’s Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Sampath Thuyacontha, has revealed that Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of accused war criminal and former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was in possession of a significant number of firearms issued for personal security purposes.
Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake claimed that occupied land in the North will be returned to its "rightful owners" during his visit to Jaffna on Friday.
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited Jaffna last week, where he urged Tamil-speaking youth to apply for vacancies in the Sri Lankan Police Force, despite the decades-long history of abuses and crimes against Tamils.
According to the Sri Lankan president's media division,