Accused war criminal Sarath Fonseka has reignited controversy over the final days of the armed conflict, alleging that senior figures within the Rajapaksa administration explored the possibility of allowing senior LTTE leaders to surrender through international mediation in May 2009.

Sri Lankan military construction work to establish a permanent access road to the Palaly Raja Rajeshwari Amman Temple in Jaffna has been suspended following objections from local landowners, in the latest dispute over civilian land use within the High Security Zone in Valikamam North.

UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy met with Tamil political leaders in Colombo this week, as representatives of the Tamil nation urged renewed international action on accountability, justice and political rights.

The Cambridge Union has cancelled a scheduled speaking event featuring Namal Rajapaksa, following mounting outrage from British Tamil students this week.

British Tamil students and youth organisations have expressed widespread outrage after Namal Rajapaksa was invited to address the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union next week, with plans for protests already underway across the United Kingdom.

Below is the full text of an address by Jesse Jackson in London, in 2009. He was addressing an event organised by British Tamils.

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The veteran American civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family confirmed, bringing to a close more than five decades of advocacy for justice, equality and human rights across the world.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy in Colombo today, as a British parliamentarian renewed calls for accountability for atrocities committed against Tamils.

With just two months to go before Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin has written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking citizenship or long-term visas for approximately 89,000 Eelam Tamils who have been living in the southern Indian state for decades.

The fatal shooting of Attorney-at-Law Buddhika Mallawarachchi and his wife in Akuregoda, Thalangama, has triggered outrage, paralysed court proceedings across Sri Lanka, and reignited debate over the country’s deteriorating law and order.

The Chairman of the Karaitheevu Pradeshiya Sabha, S. Baskaran, has warned that the Protection of the State from Terrorism Bill (PSTB) proposed by the Sri Lankan government could prove harmful to the general public and pose a threat to social activists.

Around 30 inscriptions, the majority in Tamil-Brahmi, have been identified in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, offering striking new evidence of the global reach of ancient Tamil civilisation and confirming that Tamils travelled and lived in Roman Egypt between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE.

University of Jaffna marks the 30th anniversary of the Kumarapuram massacre with a remembrance ceremony honouring the 26 victims

The killing of a 17-year-old in Jaffna, the attempted cover-up that followed, and the complete absence of accountability, are part of a grim and familiar cycle. For decades, such violence has made clear that the Sri Lankan state does not value Tamil lives, no matter which government sits in Colombo.