Sri Lanka’s Attorney General has indicted three men over an alleged 2022 plot to detonate a bomb at All Saints’ Church in Borella, Colombo.

The British Tamils Forum (BTF) has written to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urging him to visit Mullivaikkal, the site of the 2009 genocide, and Chemmani, where mass graves have been unearthed, during his forthcoming visit to Sri Lanka in June 2025.

Land disputes centred on access, control, and distribution remain a major challenge to peacebuilding in the North-East, according to a recent report supported by the UN Sri Lanka SDG Fund. 

Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, a U.N. envoy warned following a visit to the country.

President Trump commuted the sentence of Imaad Zuberi, a major political donor who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the obstruction of a federal investigation into a Trump inaugural committee donation, falsifying records and a failure to disclose and pay tax on US$5.65 million received from the Sri Lankan government to lobby in Washington to improve its image.

India has launched the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating the facility. Located at the country’s southern tip, Vizhinjam is set to enter the global shipping network and compete with existing transshipment hubs, including Colombo, Jebel Ali, and Singapore.

The Australian government has handed over a high-performance Stabicraft vessel to the Sri Lanka Coast Guard, marking the commencement of Disi Rela 2, the second phase of a joint maritime security initiative purportedly aimed at "combating illegal maritime activity".

Human skeletal remains, including skulls, have been discovered near the Karkovalam military camp in Jaffna, prompting a police and forensic investigation

The Kopay Divisional Secretary has confirmed that the Sri Lankan police are illegally occupying private Tamil-owned lands in Jaffna district, refusing to vacate the area despite longstanding demands from landowners.

Tamil lawyers have accused the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the occupying Sri Lankan Police Station in Palaly of misleading the Mallakam Magistrate’s Court regarding the arrests of individuals protesting against the illegal construction of the Tissa Vihara on Tamil-owned land in Thaiyiddy.

The 39th anniversary of the Verugal massacre was marked this week in a solemn commemoration in the Verugal-Poonagar area of Trincomalee. The event was organised by relatives of the victims, civil activists, and local community members to honour the memory of the 21 civilians brutally killed on 12 June 1986 while transporting dry food to displaced Tamils.

Tamil civil society activists and members of the Batticaloa District Coordination Committee travelled to Amparai this week, where they documented the construction of a new Buddha statue near the historic Ukanthamalai Murugan Temple.

This week marks 39 years since 31 Eelam Tamil Fishermen were brutally killed by the Sri Lankan Navy, in what has been dubbed the Mandaitivu massacre

To date, no one has been held accountable for the murders.