More than 500 Sri Lankan soldiers have been isolated, following a suspected outbreak of encephalitis at an occupying military camp in Mannar this week.

The Sri Lankan military continues to conduct extensive training exercises in these areas, with the most recent involving troops who are suspected to have encephalitis. Even though it has been 15 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, the North-East remains one of the most heavily militarized regions in the world.

Dr. P. Sathyalingam, general secretary of the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) has pledged to do justice to the Tamil homeland, adding that his appointment as a national list will empower him and the party to deliver on the pledge to Eelam Tamils. 

The genre of war epic makes its grand re-entry to Tamil cinema with director Rajkumar Periasamy’s sophomore feature film, ‘Amaran.’ As is often the case with this genre, one cannot help but feel the events of the ‘true story’ onscreen have been heavily modified for easy consumption.

As Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) swept parliament with a majority that will allow it to amend the constitution, we take a look back at the coalition’s previous pledges and examine what an NPP government holds for Eelam Tamils.

^{A voter walks to a polling station in Mullaitivu on Thursday.}

Following a historic victory, which secured the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition a two-thirds majority in Sri Lanka’s parliament, India’s High Commissioner, Santosha Jha, met with Sri Lanka’s President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Following his electoral victory at Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections, Sivagnanam Shritharan, paid tribute to fallen Maaveerar at Kanagapuram Thuyilum Illam in Kilinochchi.

The Sri Lankan army held a pooja at the Tissa Raja Vihara, a Buddhist temple which was illegally constructed in Thaiyiddy, Jaffna. 

Tamil protesters joined by the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF), held black flags outside the illegally constructed temple to demand the return of the land privately owned by 14 Tamil families but is occupied by the Sri Lankan army. 

Even though hundreds of thousands of Tamils took to the polls on Thursday, turnout remained historically low for the Tamil homeland.

According to figures released by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka, turnout for the North-East was recorded as below.

Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition has secured a two-thirds majority in parliament, granting it a ‘super majority’ with the ability to amend the island’s constitution, as it swept polls this morning – taking home the most number of seats ever.

As Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election draws to a close, Tamil Families of the Disappeared gathered in Trincomalee to continue their demands answers about the fate of their loved ones, many of whom were forcibly disappeared at the end of the armed conflict.