The director of the organisation Roots of the Nation has been investigated by the Terrorism Investigation Division.

Director Ganeshan Pirapakaran attended questioning on Thursday in Colombo.

Pirabakaran said he was kept from 9 in the morning until 7 in the evening, and was questioned about the organisations activities and memorial events.

The TID warned him that they could call him for investigation again in the future.

Twelve senior LTTE members including Lt Col Kumarappa and Lt Col Pulenthiran were remembered in Valvettithurai on the 31st anniversary of their deaths.

Almost 5000 acres of privately-owned land in Mullaitivu still remains occupied by Sri Lankan military forces, the district secretariat has revealed.

Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan president has reportedly issued a deadline to release all privately-owned lands in the North-East by December 31.

Responding to a private right to information request, the Mullaitivu district secretariat calculated that a total of 4859 acres remained under occupation, compared to 2891.75 that had been released.

Of the five divisions of the district, Karaithuraipatru (Maritimepattu) remained the most heavily occupied with over 4000 acres of the total occupation falling in this division.

The Sri Lankan army continued its militarisation of the North-East with its announcement that a new “state-of-the-art modern facility complex” had been constructed at the 66 Infantry Escort Troops Headquarters in Poonakari last week.

The UK’s Minister of State for Asia, Mark Field visited a group of police officers in Colombo earlier today, just days after a Scotland’s police announced a last minute cancellation of a training visit by a contingent of Sri Lankan policemen.

Field met with the female officers and tweeted that “UK funding has been supporting police reform in Sri Lanka”.

The Sri Lanka Monitoring and Accountability Panel (MAP) has called for an independent evidence-gathering mechanism for to be set up by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to collect evidence of international law violations.

In a statement issued earlier this week the MAP, which consists of a panel of prominent legal experts to monitor transitional justice mechanisms in Sri Lanka, said that “looking ahead to the HRC’s 40th Session in March 2019—when the question of Sri Lanka’s compliance is back on the agenda—a fresh approach is needed”.

The Sri Lanka Campaign has re-launched its ethical tourism campaign for those who visit Sri Lanka and the Tamil homeland, reflecting ongoing concerns regarding militarisation and in an effort to prevent human rights abusers from benefitting from tourism to the island.

Residents of Pandatharippu, Jaffna protested in solidarity with Tamil political prisoners who are hunger striking for their release.

As many as 750,000 cases remain pending in courts across the island, declared Sri Lanka’s Justice Minister Thalatha Atukorale.

She noted that the massive backlog has left many losing faith in Sri Lanka’s judicial system.

“Just as much as we care about the legal profession, we need to take some action to prevent such a large number of cases pending in courts,” she said. “We cannot be happy about getting cases postponed. People undergo numerous problems due to cases getting postponed.”

Investigators from the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption Unit have met with Sri Lanka’s prime minister and president as they carry out investigations into corruption allegations on the island.

"We are currently in Sri Lanka as part of our ongoing investigations into serious allegations of corruption in cricket in the country," said Alex Marshall from the ICC.