An estimated 100 Australian Tamils gathered in Sydney to protest Australia’s continued detention of refugees such as Rajan Navanthirasa and the issuing of temporary bridging visas such as the TPV and SHEV which have been granted to most Tamil refugees.

The entrance to the Kittu Memorial Park in Nallur, Jaffna was set on fire in a suspected arson attack on Sunday night.

Although the blaze was reported to the Jaffna Municipal Council fire brigade, the vehicle was occupied at another location.

The National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) has cautiously welcomed the latest resolution on Sri Lanka passed at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), but called on Canada to demand the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to investigate Tamil genocide.

“NCCT cautiously welcomes the new resolution (A/HRC/46/L.1/Rev.1) adopted on March 23 rd , 2021 at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as it includes some important progressive steps and a step towards attaining an international accountability process against Sri Lanka.”

Families of the missing persons, who have been on a rotational hunger strike in Vavuniya, reached their 1500^thday of protest on Sunday. 

(Protest in Pforzheim)

Hundreds have gathered in front of detention centres in Büren and Pforzheim, Germany, to demonstrate against the round-up and planned deportations of as many as 100 Tamil asylum seekers.

These protests follow the mass dentition of Tamil refugees across the country, mainly in Nordrhein-Westfalen and Baden-Württemberg. 

The Sri Lankan government has announced a sudden and wide-ranging proscription of hundreds of individuals and several Tamil diaspora organisations, as the regime continues to crack down on Tamil civil society and activists.

Mullaitivu locals carried out a demonstration, as part of an island-wide protest against deforestation.

The protest was held on Tuesday in front of the Vidyananda College in Mulliyavalai, with demonstrators demanding halting of cutting trees and preventing unforeseeable changes to the environment.

Sri Lanka's Media Secretary to the Minister of Education has claimed the government will introduce new laws to protect their armed forces from potential war crime trials and possible prosecution from “entities outside of the country”, reports The Morning, as pressure grows on governments around the world to hold Sri Lanka officials accountable for war crimes.

Buddhika Wickramadara echoing remarks made by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman G.L. Peiris earlier this month, was quoted as stating that the "current laws of the country are insufficient to protect military officials from being prosecuted internationally".

“Laws would be introduced to ensure military officials cannot be prosecuted by entities outside the country,” he added.

The Tamil Civil Society Forum (TCSF), an umbrella group of Tamil civil society actors based in the North-East has slammed the latest resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka. In a heavily critical statement, the TCSF said that UNHRC  resolution 46/1 had done little in advancing accountability, and that it would go down in history as “yet another half-hearted attempt at dealing with accountability” and even potentially “another attempt at giving false hope and expectations of justice to the Tamil people.”

A team of parliamentarians visited the Omanthai-Kallikulam area in Vavuniya, following a complaint lodged by villagers and village organisations regarding excessive gravel excavations on the site which goes beyond what was permitted.