Student organisations in the North-East came together and distributed the essential ingredients that many Tamils solely survived on when they were trapped in the fire zone, 11 years ago.
<p>Sri Lanka President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has reportedly agreed to a billion-dollar loan from China despite owing 4.8 billion dollars this year.</p>
<p>Rajapaksa has borrowed from China twice in the past two months in pursuit of a bailout as the country’s foreign reserve shrank to $7.2 billion in April. He has stated one of his key objectives is to attract foreign investment into the country.</p>
Despite the on-going damage to national reconciliation, Gotabaya Rajapaksa is insistent on the normalisation of “military’s influence in the civilian sphere”, warns the Economist.
<p>Sri Lanka has issued a request for rapid financial support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following growing economic concern as the country responds to the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute has called upon Sri Lanka’s Minister of Justice, Nimal Siripala de Silva, to ensure that the government due process in handlining the case of Former state counsel and prominent lawyer, Heejaz Hizbullah.</p>
Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has attempted to detain and arrest activists with the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF), as the party began a series of events to commemorate the Mullivaikkal genocide this week.
I am 22 years old. My right hand was amputated during the end of the war in Valainjarmadam. I was 10 years old at the time and I became disabled. I am right-handed. It was very difficult to learn to write with the left hand after I lost my right hand. At the beginning no matter how much I tried, my writing didn’t come out well. However, now I am able to use my left hand to do everything I need to do. I sat for Ordinary Level exams twice and now I have passed the A / L exam as well.
The third day of Tamil genocide remembrance week was marked in Jaffna today, at the site of a school that was bombed by the Sri Lankan air force in 1995.
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan said the “failure of the majority leadership” led to the emergence of the LTTE, as he hit out at a Sinhala interviewer for “promoting mischief” when he grilled the party’s spokesperson M A Sumanthiran on the Tamil struggle last week.
A Tamil man was hospitalised at the Manthikai Base Hospital, Point Pedro following a gun attack by army soldiers, that left him with several gunshot wounds.
Pasupathy Anusan, a 22-year old, from Puloly, was shot at his arm and leg, this morning at 1am.
The leader of the Tamil National People's Front, Gajen Ponnambalam, visited Anusan at the Manthikai Base Hospital.
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