The United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, S. Paul Kapur, met the Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat during a three-day visit to the island, in talks centred on trade, investment and security cooperation.

The Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappeared in the North-East (ARED) has appealed to the United Nations to ensure an international investigation into enforced disappearances and mass graves across the Tamil homeland, including the ongoing excavations at Chemmani, where more than 380 human skeletal remains have been uncovered.

The excavation of the Chemmani mass grave entered the 30th day of its third phase on Sunday, with seven sets of human skeletal remains exhumed and a further eleven sets newly identified at the site.

As Andy Burnham emerges as the frontrunner to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour leader and British prime minister, British Tamils are weighing a record on Tamil justice that is far thinner than the outgoing premier's, yet not quite the blank slate it might first appear.

Footage from in Umaiyalpuram, Kilinochchi, shows officers of Sri Lanka's Special Task Force (STF) assaulting a woman during a confrontation with residents, after which fourteen Tamil civilians, among them young children, schoolgirls and elderly residents, were remanded, in an operation that began over alleged illegal sand mining.

Keir Starmer's announcement that he will resign as Labour leader, and remain in Downing Street only until his successor is chosen, brings to an end a premiership that began on the back of some of the strongest pledges a British party leader had ever made to Tamils.

Families of Tamil victims of enforced disappearance protested near the Chemmani mass grave excavation site in Jaffna on Friday as Sri Lanka's Justice Minister, Harshana Nanayakkara, and officials from the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) proceeded past the demonstrators without stopping to engage.

The wife of former State Intelligence Service Director Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay has lodged a complaint with Sri Lanka's National Authority for the Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses, alleging that her children were subjected to surveillance by an individual believed to be linked to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).