Several diplomats in Sri Lanka took to Twitter to call for answers on the International Day of the Disappeared, as Tamil families of the disappeared protested across the North-East.
<p>Recently graduated students protested opposite the Jaffna District Secretariat, demanding to know why their applications to the government employment programme had been rejected.</p>
<p>Tamil activists have been "abducted, tortured and raped because of their involvement in the search for the truth about the disappeared in Sri Lanka," the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) said in their press release, marking International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. </p>
Members and supporters of the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) protested demanding the Sri Lanka government to release Tamil political prisoners who have extensively been detained in prisons.
Tamil families of the disappeared rallied across the North-East today to mark International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Families demonstrated in districts across the Tamil homeland and were joined by members of the public and Tamil politicians.
<p>A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is set to be signed between Sri Lanka and India, which will grant 300 million Sri Lankan rupees to expand the passenger terminal and luggage inspection area of Jaffna's Palaly airport.</p>
<p>Tourism Minister, Prasanna Ranatunge announced the measures following meetings with Gopal Baglay, India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka. </p>
Sir Ed Davey, a long-time of the British Tamil community, has been elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, after having secured 63.5% of the vote.
The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka met with Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader, R Sampanthan to discuss the recent parliamentary election results in the North and East.
<p>Parliamentarian C.V. Wigneswaran proclaimed, “Tamil Nationalism has not failed. It is in hibernation,” in response to a question regarding his take on the recent parliamentary election results and whether Tamil Nationalists have failed. </p>
The mother of Nalini Sriharan, the sole surviving member of the supposed five-team squad behind the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, has requested the detainee be moved from Vellore to Puzhal near Chennai, citing mistreatment and threats to her safety.
<p>Extreme heat in Trincomalee over the last two months has caused drought in the district, with thousands affected in the Kinniya division.</p>
<p>The hot weather has caused water shortages in 6 villages in the region, a divisional official for the National Disaster Relief Services Centre reported.</p>
<p>More than 2000 people were suffering as a result of the water shortage in the Kinniya area.</p>
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Secretary, Jayanath Colombage, has claimed that Rajapaksa administration will adopt an “India first” approach with respects to strategic security and has approved a memorandum of cooperation signed with India which regards Colombo Port’s Eastern terminal.
The UK provided military training to 17, out of 30, countries on the British Foreign Office’s own human rights watch list, which includes Sri Lanka, from 2018-2020.
A Tamil woman has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a collision with a Sri Lankan army vehicle in Kilinochchi, on Monday. 35-year-old Thadsayini Vikneswaran from Ananthapuram, was admitted to Mullaitivu District General Hospital.
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