The Sri Lankan military has released 38 acres of private land in Kilinochchi back to the GA on Tuesday. 

The land in Karaichchi and Kandaavalai was illegally acquired by the military many years ago. 

Local officials are attempting to identify the rightful owners of the land, the Uthayan reports. 

Sri Lanka re-opened its customs office in the Northern Province this month, after 34 years of closure. 

The office was closed in 1983 due to the ethnic conflict. 

The opening ceremony at Kankasanthurai was attended by the Northern Province governor, Reginald Cooray, and the Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera, reported the Daily Mirror. 

The chief Buddhist monk of the Asgiriya Chapter said Sri Lanka’s president had agreed there was no need for the island to have a new constitution, according to a report in the Daily Mirror.

Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana met with former Sri Lankan Minister and National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa and told him that Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena shared his views on a new constitution.

The Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council called on the United Nations to have closer collaboration with the North-East, but stated that it could not come about “at the expense of being manipulated by the Central Government”.

The Sri Lankan government has announced that the former minister for law and order, who was forced to resign amidst investigations into an arms scandal, has now been appointed the new foreign minister.

Tamils in Batticaloa marked 11 years since the Sencholai Massacre on Monday, at an event remembering the victims and calling for justice.

53 Tamil schoolgirls and 3 teachers killed by Sri Lankan Air Force bombs in the Sencholai Massacre of 2006 were remembered today in Vallipunam at an event organised by the Tamil National People’s Front.

Sencholai Massacre victims were remembered this morning at the site of the original Sencholai school in Vallipunam, Mullaitivu.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremeisnghe pledged that his government would bear the costs for the renovation of the golden roof for a Buddhist vihara in Kandy, after meeting with monks during a ceremony held in his honour today.

Sri Lanka’s former foreign minister Ravi Karunayake, who stepped down from the role amidst allegations of corruption, said he had done so to safeguard the president and prime minister, as he met with Buddhist monks in Kandy today.