A group of residents from Keppapulavu, Mullaitivu protested in front of the District Secretariat Office on June 28th, demanding to be included in a government welfare program. The program provides financial assistance to people living in poverty, but the protestors argue that they have been excluded because their lands are still being occupied by the military.

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Sinhala Buddhist monks continued their worship Mullaitivu Magistrate Court Judge, Hon. T. Sravanarajah conducted a field visit to the Kurunthurmalai site, following the second court hearing regarding the ongoing illegal construction of a Buddhist temple at the site. 

The Attorney General's department conducted a field visit to the Kurunthumalai site on June 21st, along with a team of prosecutors. The visit was in response to the ongoing dispute surrounding the site, which has been targeted for land grabs by Buddhist monks with the assistance of the Sri Lankan police, military, and Department of Archaeology.

Human remains were discovered in the Mullaitivu Kokkuthoduvai area on June 29, when workers employed by the National Water Supply and Drainage Board were replacing water pipes.

Despite serious concerns over the human rights record of Sri Lanka's military, the Sri Lanka's army has deployed 170 troops, out of a full contingent of 243, to support a UN peacekeeping force in Mali.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ali Sabry, has concluded his diplomatic visit to China, during which he agreed with Chinese Minister of Finance, Liu Khan, to expand economic cooperation between the two countries.

The visit Sri Lanka’s failure to secure a debt restructuring plan with China and being forced to hold separate discussions with the Chinese as part of the International Monetary Fund support. 

Speaking at a conference by the Conservative Environment Network on 19th June, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe faced damning questions over his complicity in human rights violations; growing militarisation across the North and East of Sri Lanka; and, the imposition of Buddhist viharas.

Following a fantastic debut and sophomore feature with 2018’s ‘Pariyerum Perumal’ and 2021’s ‘Karnan,’ Mari Selvaraj returns with his latest endeavour, the political family drama ‘Maamannan.’ Selvaraj focusses on tackling caste issues through his filmography, revealing the inhumanity and obstacles the Dalit community face under oppression and marginalisation.

Speaking to the British Tamil diaspora, Tamil Nadu President of Bhartiya Janata Party, K Annamalai, maintained that he would never forget the atrocities committed against Tamils in 2009 and pledged that India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, would deliver a political solution for Tamils.

Mr Annamalai was speaking at an event organised by the Global Tamil Civil Society at the Nakshatra Hall in Feltham in West London.

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The Malayaha Tamil community held a protest last month to mark 77 years since a mass strike in 1946 when up to 500,000 plantation workers participated in a mass strike against land grabbing in Kegalle, Bulathkopitiya, in the Urulovaliya plantation.