A new report by People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) examines the Sri Lankan state’s ongoing project of Sinhalisation in the North-East, with a detailed case study documenting land dispossession and violence targeting Tamil dairy farmers in Mayilaththamadu–Mathavanai.

Last month's UN report adds yet more weight to a body of evidence that is now overwhelming. The time has come for the international community to call these crimes by their proper name: genocide.

The 69th anniversary of the killing of Thirumalai Natarajan was commemorated on Wednesday, in Jaffna, with Tamils gathering to honour a young life cut short during one of the earliest protests against Sinhala majoritarian rule on Sri Lanka’s ‘Independence Day’.

Sri Lankan military intelligence personnel have been accused of intimidating relatives of the forcibly disappeared travelling from the Amparai District to Batticaloa to participate in a protest march to mark Sri Lanka’s ‘Independence Day’ this week.

Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) parliamentarian Shanakiyan Rasamanickam has tabled a private members’ bill in Parliament seeking the swift repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), intensifying pressure on the government over what he describes as a broken election promise and the continued use of a law long condemned for enabling grave human rights abuses.

The Sri Lankan government has announced a new concession aimed at expanding labour migration to Israel, further entrenching Colombo’s cooperation with Tel Aviv even as Israel continues its devastating assault on Gaza.

Sri Lanka received the Holy Devnimori Relics of Lord Buddha from India at the Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo this week, opening an exposition, which coincided with Sri Lanka’s 'Independence Day’.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake inaugurated the exposition alongside Shri Acharya Devvrat, Governor of Gujarat, and Shri Harsh Sanghavi, Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat.

As international criticism mounts over the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) involvement in Tehran's fatal suppression of anti-government protests, the UK government reportedly set to introduce legislation that would enable it to officially outlaw the organisation. The action comes after the European Union made the decision last month to put the IRGC to its official list of terrorist organisations, adding groups like Islamic State, Hamas, and al-Qaeda.