A protest calling the Sri Lanka government to release Tamil political prisoners and to address the issue of missing persons, took place yesterday in Batticaloa. 

The protest, which took place at the Mahatma Gandhi Park in Batticaloa, was set up near the site of the memorial of executed journalists. 

Local businesses in Mullaitivu have closed down in support for the families of disappeared, who held a protest today on International Women's Day to mark three years of demonstrations in Mullaitivu. 

Mothers and relatives of the disappeared marked International Women’s Day 2020 (8^th March) with a protest in Mullaitivu, as they reached three years in the struggle for truth and justice for the their loved ones.  

A Buddhist vihara, was opened in Jaffna University’s Killinochchi Campus on Ariviyal Nagar, at 4pm on Saturday, as Sinhalisation efforts continue across the North-East.

Batticaloa Campus Private Limited, a private university, is to be used a quarantine centre for coronavirus. 

Dr Anil Jasinghe, the Director General of Health Services, issued a notice of acquisition, informing the university that it would be used as a quarantine centre to contain the transmission of coronavirus until further notice.

Security measures have been tightened across the North East since Thursday, following the arrest of 'six prominent former LTTE cadres on charges of planning to assassinate a prominent Tamil politician in the North,' according to Daily Mirror.

Sri Lankan counter terrorism officers have arrested a man in Batticaloa for allegedly planning on reviving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The suspect - a German citizen - was arrested by officers from the Terrorist Investigation Department (TID). 

The TID arrested the man after informing him that he will be arrested for his alleged plot to rebuild and revive the LTTE and suspected to have used 'Hawala' style money systems to transfer money from overseas. 

The Thamizh Makkal Kootanii (TMK), has issued a statement calling out the comments regarding the UN reports released by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and TNA parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran, saying that Sumanthiran is 'misguiding Tamils' and claimed that the TNA 'wants Tamils to believe that very little can be done to achieve accountability for Sri Lanka’s crimes.' 

Eelam Tamil student, Renuga Inpakumar, travelled from Australia to Geneva on Tuesday to discuss the release of two asylum seekers who have been detained in an Australia detention centre for over 10 years. She went to the UN conferences in Geneva in hopes of portraying the brutal lives that the two refugees are enduring and relayed the message to 'free the indefinitely detained refugees.'

The mother, of a Tamil man who has been missing since the end of the civil war, passed away on Wednesday in Vavuniya after spending over 10 years searching for her son.

Mangayarkarasi Balasubramaniam, aged 72, passed away on Wednesday morning (4^th March) at 2:10am. She was originally from Vannarpannai, Jaffna but had temporarily moved to Puliyankulam, Vavuniya as she continued to actively participate in campaigns and protests with families of disappeared in Vavuniya.