Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has openly backed Sinhala Buddhist monks involved in the illegal construction of a shrine on Trincomalee beach, sharply criticising police intervention.
Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) spokesperson M.A. Sumanthiran has called for the immediate resignation of all Tamil members of Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP), after Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala announced in parliament that an illegally installed Buddha statue in Trincomalee would be reinstated with police protection.
There has been outrage in Trincomalee after Sri Lankan police removed, then hastily reinstated, a Buddha statue placed without authorisation on a public beachfront.
Families of 275 fallen Tamil liberation fighters from Puthukudiyiruppu were honoured today as part of the upcoming Maaveerar Naal commemorations across the Mullaitivu district, in a ceremony that brought together relatives, community activists and diaspora supporters to pay tribute to those who gave their lives in the Tamil struggle.
High profile resignations, a US$1 billion lawsuit from the President of the United States, and a global storm of outrage. Controversy has engulfed the world’s oldest national broadcaster this week.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million financing package to support public expenditure management, despite military occupation across the North-East.
Indian parliamentarian and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader, Dr Thol. Thirumavalavan, paid tribute at Mullivaikkal today, honouring the tens of thousands of Eelam Tamils massacred during the final stages of the 2009 genocide.
