Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy in Colombo today, as a British parliamentarian renewed calls for accountability for atrocities committed against Tamils.

With just two months to go before Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin has written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking citizenship or long-term visas for approximately 89,000 Eelam Tamils who have been living in the southern Indian state for decades.

The fatal shooting of Attorney-at-Law Buddhika Mallawarachchi and his wife in Akuregoda, Thalangama, has triggered outrage, paralysed court proceedings across Sri Lanka, and reignited debate over the country’s deteriorating law and order.

The Chairman of the Karaitheevu Pradeshiya Sabha, S. Baskaran, has warned that the Protection of the State from Terrorism Bill (PSTB) proposed by the Sri Lankan government could prove harmful to the general public and pose a threat to social activists.

Around 30 inscriptions, the majority in Tamil-Brahmi, have been identified in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, offering striking new evidence of the global reach of ancient Tamil civilisation and confirming that Tamils travelled and lived in Roman Egypt between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE.

University of Jaffna marks the 30th anniversary of the Kumarapuram massacre with a remembrance ceremony honouring the 26 victims

The killing of a 17-year-old in Jaffna, the attempted cover-up that followed, and the complete absence of accountability, are part of a grim and familiar cycle. For decades, such violence has made clear that the Sri Lankan state does not value Tamil lives, no matter which government sits in Colombo.

The Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) has defended students at the University of Jaffna who pulled down the Sri Lankan lion flag and hoisted black flags on 4 February, as part of coordinated protests across the Tamil homeland marking Sri Lanka’s Independence Day as a day of mourning.

Fisherfolk in Mullaitivu District staged a protest, calling on authorities to take immediate steps to prohibit illegal fishing activities that they say are devastating livelihoods along the coast of the Tamil homeland.