Mahinda Rajapaksa granted presidential "permission" for displaced Tamils from Talaimannar to return to their lands, following a dispute over the lands.

Displaced Tamils from the Talaimannar area had been evicted from their homes by Sri Lankan security authorities who accused the 550 displaced families of "squatting on State land".

In an article, entitled "MR intervenes to resettle evicted IDPs", the pro-government newspaper, The Island, stated that the matter was only settled after the Industry and Commerce Minister, Rishard Bathiudeen, raised the issue with Rajapaksa.

According to The Island, "those evicted had been given permission to return to their land as President Rajapaksa had intervened."

Rajapakse hailed the construction a "revolution" and declared,

"Separatist tendencies will fade away when we have better road connectivity."

Photographs www.pathivu.com

Tamil defiance continues with the news outlet Pathivu publishing photographs of further Remembrance Day commorations amidst militarisation in the Eelam homeland.

The World Bank announced on Tuesday its approval of a credit worth $100 million to fund the transformation of Sri Lanka’s education system.

Members of the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO-UK) addressed crowds across multiple events held in the UK for Remembrance Day.

A cross-party group of British MPs sympathetic to the Tamil struggle, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG-T), marked the Eelam nation's Remembrance Day.

In a statement, the APPG-T chair, Conservative MP Lee Scott  said,