As the world marked World Environment Day this week with a united call to #BeatPlasticPollution, Tamil environmental activists condemned Sri Lanka’s continued neglect of the North-East’s deepening ecological crises.

Batticaloa social activist E. Premnath has condemned the actions of Sri Lankan police officers after he was arrested without a warrant at his workplace and subjected to physical and mental abuse, an incident he says has caused significant mental distress.

Volker Türk is no stranger to Sri Lanka. There is little prospect of progress for the High Commissioner in Colombo. Instead, it is the Tamil North-East, and Mullivaikkal in particular, where he must go.

Nineteen human skeletal assemblages have been uncovered so far during excavations at the Sindhubathi Hindu cremation grounds in Jaffna, which concluded its first phase yesterday. 

As the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, prepares to visit Sri Lanka this month, the question is not what Tamil survivors will say — they have been saying it for over a decade. The question is whether the High Commissioner and the United Nations will listen and act.

The Tamil National Assembly and the Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Jaffna, pledging to jointly pursue a federal solution recognising the Tamil homeland and to seek international justice for the genocide committed against the Tamil people.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of carrying out “premeditated genocide” in Gaza during a visit to Paris.

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In May 2025, the Sri Lankan military escalated its occupation of the Tamil homeland under the guise of civil outreach—ranging from church renovations and aid distributions to military-run golf tournaments held on seized Tamil land. These highly publicised activities, led by infantry divisions accused of war crimes, serve to normalise the military’s entrenched dominance while deflecting scrutiny over its role in crimes against humanity.

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