Tamil youth across the diaspora marked the 38th remembrance of Lt Col Thileepan this September with a month-long international campaign that combined art, political activism, and protest by activist group Phoenix: The Next Generation.

Farmers in Muthunagar, Trincomalee, have entered the eighteenth consecutive day of a satyagraha protest, braving torrential rains as they continue to demand the return of their seized farmlands from the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA).

At the United Nations General Assembly last week, Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Despite the rhetoric, Dissanayake pointedly avoided naming the state responsible for those atrocities: Israel. This was not an oversight, but a calculated choice.

The Mannar District Federation of Public Organizations has condemned the Sri Lankan government’s one-sided decision on the Mannar wind power project, calling it undemocratic and a violation of fundamental rights

More than 140 organisations and individuals have jointly condemned the continuing surveillance, harassment and intimidation of Tamil photojournalist Kumanan Kanapathipillai, calling on the Sri Lankan government to end its campaign of persecution against him and other Tamil- journalists in the North-East.

Twenty-two countries have signed on as co-sponsors to a revised UN resolution that will be voted on this week, extending the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) mandate on in Sri Lanka for another two years.

Public and civil society organisations from the Eastern Province have condemned the Sri Lankan government for carrying out projects that they say violate the rights and livelihoods of Tamils in the North-East under the guise of “development.”

A bulletproof vehicle provided to former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa by the state has been returned, his media spokesperson Manoj Gamage confirmed.

Issuing a statement, Attorney-at-Law Gamage said the vehicle had been handed back.

A 34-year-old Tamil man was found dead inside the Pesalai Police Station in Mannar, with his mother alleging he was beaten to death while in custody