On August 4, 2006, Sri Lankan security forces summarily executed 17 aid workers from the French NGO, Action la Contre Faim (ACF), in Muttur, Trincomalee. 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has responded to letters sent by Tamil political parties and civil society organisations following his recent visit to Sri Lanka, claiming he would “continue to advocate for complementary strategies to provide pathways to advance justice for victims at the international level.”

36 years ago, up to 64 Tamil civilians were killed by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Valvettithurai in a massacre that was termed “India’s My Lai”.

Tamil actor Sasikumar has addressed the criticism surrounding his recent film 'Tourist Family', in an interview with film critic Sudhir Srinivasan, in which he defends speaking up for Eelam Tamils and slammed film censorship in India.

Over 200 people, including families of the disappeared, gathered to view dozens of items of evidence that were unearthed from the Chemmani mass graves earlier today, as more bodies continue to be identified at the site.

The recent arrest of former Sri Lankan Navy Commander Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne has intensified calls for accountability, with the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) releasing a new dossier, details his links to one of the island’s most notorious torture sites.

A coalition of Tamil political parties, over 100 civil society groups, religious leaders, and academic institutions from across the North-East have called on member states of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to take decisive action against Sri Lanka by initiating a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the crime of genocide.

Australian Senators have issued calls for an international investigation into the mass graves in Chemmani, Jaffna, where forensic teams have exhumed more than 130 skeletal remains so far.

Anger is mounting across Tamil Nadu over the release of the Telugu-language film Kingdom, which has been accused of portraying Eelam Tamils in a deeply derogatory and historically inaccurate manner. In Ramanathapuram, protesters were seen tearing down banners of the film outside Jagan Theatre, with calls growing louder for the movie to be banned from further screenings across the South India state.

Sri Lanka’s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has announced that legal proceedings will be launched against public officials who have failed to submit their annual declarations of assets and liabilities for 2025, as the Anura Kumara Dissanayake administration intensifies its campaign to crack down on alleged corruption.

Sri Lanka’s Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara has pledged to raise the issue of Tamil political prisoners with president Anura Kumara Dissanayake and initiate steps toward securing a general amnesty for those who have been incarcerated for decades.

Hundreds of residents took to the streets of Mannar on Monday to protest the installation of new wind power towers on the island, warning that the project was being forced through without local consent and in violation of past pledges by Sri Lanka’s political leadership.

Five more skeletal assemblages have been identified and six previously documented remains were fully exhumed on Monday from the Chemmani mass grave sites in Jaffna, bringing the total number of skeletal remains fully excavated to 126, and the number identified so far to 135.

Lance Corporal Somaratne Rajapaksa, a Sri Lankan soldier convicted in the 1996 rape and murder of Tamil schoolgirl Krishanthi Kumaraswamy, has expressed willingness to testify in an international investigation into the Chemmani mass graves.