Sri Lankan police have summoned Tamil human rights activist S. Sivayoganathan for further inquiry, months after he lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) over the suppression of a Tamil commemorative event.

Five more human skeletal remains were exhumed on Sunday from Chemmani mass graves, bringing the total recovered to 95

Widespread protests were held across the North-East this weekend as Tamil families of the disappeared, civil society organisations, and human rights defenders rallied to demand an international, independent investigative mechanism into the genocide committed against the Tamil people.

This week, France’s president Emmanuel Macron announced his government would move to recognise the State of Palestine. Though not the first state, nor even first European country, to do so, as a G7 nation and permanent member of the UN Security Council, the move carries significant weight.

The bodies of at least 90 people, including children, have been identified at the Chemmani mass grave to date, as excavations continue under Sri Lankan court supervision.

Following the discovery of another set of human remains in Sampur this week, just metres from where at least 57 Tamil civilians were murdered by Sri Lankan government forces in July 1990, we re-examine the massacres.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will officially recognise the State of Palestine, a move he described as “solemn” and necessary, amid intensifying international outrage over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

^{NPP officials in Jaffna this week.}

Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) leader and Member of Parliament Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam delivered a scathing speech in Sri Lanka’s parliament this week, condemning the government for whitewashing the memory of the Black July pogrom and enabling continued land appropriation in the North-East.

Commemorations marking the 42nd anniversary of Black July were held in Jaffna yesterday, as Tamils across the North-East remembered the victims of the state-sponsored anti-Tamil pogrom that took place in July 1983.