A vigil and mass protest was held in Kilinochchi today as Tamils across the North-East marked Sri Lanka’s ‘Independence Day’ as a day of mourning rather than celebration.
Sri Lanka marked its 78th ‘Independence Day’ with yet another military parade in Colombo, featuring a significant presence of military personnel and 25-gun salute at sea.
A protest was staged in Jaffna on Sunday, against a Buddhist temple that has been built illegally, with demonstrators demanding its removal from the site.
The Valvettithurai Urban Council has resolved that, instead of constructing a new building on the land where Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran once lived, it would be more appropriate to reconstruct a structure that reflects the original house in which he resided.
The Chairman of the Valvettithurai Urban Council, M. K. Sivajilingam, has formally thanked members of the United States Congress for their recent intervention on behalf of the Eelam Tamil people and appealed for the United States to assume a leadership role in restoring the Tamil nation’s legitimate sovereignty.
Female activists in Mannar have condemned defamatory campaigns carried out through fake social media accounts targeting women engaged in political and social activism in the Mannar District, with a call for immediate legal action against those responsible.
A Sri Lankan military soldier has been admitted to hospital in critical condition after attempting to take his own life by shooting himself in Jaffna last week.
The injured soldier has been identified as H. M. W. P. Bandara, a resident of Kurunegala, who was attached to the 523rd Army Camp located in Chavakachcheri. He is currently receiving treatment at Jaffna Teaching Hospital, where medical staff have described his condition as critical.
A large protest was held in Nedunkerni in Vavuniya against the Sri Lankan government’s proposed Kivul Oya Reservoir Project, with demonstrators warning that the scheme is being used to colonise the Tamil homeland with Sinhala settlers and push demographic change in the area.
Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the wife of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, appeared before the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) to provide a statement in connection with investigations into alleged financial irregularities linked to the ‘Siriliya’ organisation, a firm she founded and ran during the time her husband was president.
Journalists in Mullaitivu commemorated Black January last week, with a remembrance ceremony and the distribution of leaflets, honouring media workers who were killed or forcibly disappeared by the Sri Lankan state.
