A solemn indoor memorial event in Negombo earlier this week to mark the 16th anniversary of the Tamil Genocide was met with hostility as protesters affiliated with the far-right organisation Sinhala Ravaya shouted slogans and hurled abuse at the entrance.

Organised by local social justice activists and religious leaders, the remembrance ceremony sought to provide a space for collective mourning and calls for accountability for the 2009 genocide at Mullivaikkal.

The Toronto City Council unanimously passed a motion on May 22 for the city to work with the Tamil community to build a Tamil Genocide Monument in Scarborough.

The motion was brought forward by Parthi Kandavel, city councillor for Scarborough Southwest, and seconded by fellow councillor Josh Matlow, representing Toronto-St. Paul’s.

It requests the city to identify a potential site in a City of Toronto Park in Scarborough to house the monument under the provisions of the City’s Public Art and Monument Donations Policy. 

Selvachandran Sinnathurai, the father of Lieutenant Shankar, the first fighter from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to be killed in the Tamil armed struggle, passed away in London earlier this month.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Vijitha Herath, has issued a stark warning that legal action will be taken against those that refer to the state’s atrocities against Tamils as genocide.

Hundreds of Tamils gathered at Besant Nagar beach in Chennai on 18 May 2025 to mark Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, commemorating the tens of thousands of Tamil civilians massacred by the Sri Lankan state during the final stages of the armed conflict in Mullivaikkal in 2009.

On this day 67 years ago, Sinhala mobs began attacking, raping and murdering Tamils across the island. The violence was to become another in a series of deadly anti-Tamil pogroms.

On the 16th anniversary of the Mullivaikkal genocide, senior officials from Human Rights Watch (HRW) have renewed calls for international justice, denouncing the Sri Lankan government’s continued refusal to address wartime atrocities and ongoing abuses faced by Tamil victims, particularly women.

Tamils in Switzerland gathered in the heart of Bern on 18 May to mark the 16th anniversary of the Mullivaikkal genocide, with a powerful series of events organised by the Swiss Tamil Youth Organisation and the Swiss Tamil Coordination Committee.

The historic Richelieu Amphitheatre at Sorbonne University in Paris hosted a major conference on the Tamil genocide and the ongoing struggle for international justice last month.