Tamils in Grinsted, Denmark, held a memorial on May 11 to commemorate the victims of the Mullivakkal genocide. 

Candles were lit and flowers were laid to remember the tens of thousands of Tamils that were killed by Sri Lanka's military offensive in the final months of the armed conflict. 

Tamil Canadian MP Gary Anandasangaree has been appointed today as the Minister of Public Safety in Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet.

Anandasangaree will oversee key agencies tasked with Canada’s national security, including the Canada Border Services Agency, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. 

Tamils in the North-East served and ate kanji today to mark the second day of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Week. 

In the week leading up to May 18, also known as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, Tamils hold commemoration events and serve kanji to remember the 169,796 people who went unaccounted for during the genocide at Mullivaikkal as well as the victim survivors. 

Photograph: Yardstick Films 

Britain's Foreign Office successfully stopped a retired mercenary being compelled to give evidence at a freedom of information tribunal in London. 

Government lawyers managed to block a witness application made by Declassified to summon Major David Walker, a former SAS officer who co-founded Keenie Meenie Services (KMS), a mercenary company active in the 1980s.

Preparations are underway at Mullivaikkal memorial ground ahead of Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day which is marked by Tamils in the homeland and the diaspora.

Every year, Tamils gather at the memorial ground on May 18 to commemorate the 169,796 people who went unaccounted for in the final phase of the armed conflict.