The fifth day of Lt. Col. Thileepan's hunger strike was commemorated in Nallur, Jaffna, this morning. 

Tamils in Vavuniya gathered this morning to mark the 38th years since Lt. Col. Thileepan's hunger strike that was launched to call on the Indian government to deliver on its pledges to the Tamil people. 

Tamil families of the disappeared, activists and local politicians including Vavuniya municipal council chairman S Kandeepan, lit a flame in Thileepan's memory and garlanded his portrait. 

Sri Lanka is facing a sharp rise in online prostitution platforms, with dozens of websites and mobile applications openly advertising hundreds of sex services daily - many involving women as young as 18, and in some cases, underage children.

A 34-year-old Tamil man has died by suicide after being brutally assaulted by villagers in Ramboda, Nuwara Eliya, who mistook him for a thief. Video footage of the assault was later circulated on social media, prompting the victim to take his own life.

Mohamed Rifai Suhail, was acquitted this week after he was detained last year under Sri Lanka's notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), which has been disproportionately used against Tamils and Muslims for decades. 

The 21 year old student was arrested by the Dehiwala police in October 2024 for over a social media post which reportedly showed a sword pointing at an Israeli flag. 

Eelam Tamil refugees who fled to India before 2015 have been exempted from prosecution under India’s new immigration law, but remain barred from applying for long-term visas or citizenship, leaving more than 90,000 in Tamil Nadu in continued legal limbo.

A survivor of the 1990 Sathurukondan massacre, who lost their entire family in the slaughter, lodged a complaint at the occupying Sri Lankan Police Station in Kokkuvil, Batticaloa this month, demanding an investigation into one of the most notorious mass killings of Tamils in the East.

Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has once again pledged to defend Buddhism as central to the island’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, underscoring his alignment with Sinhala Buddhist nationalism.

Speaking at the Sri Vipashyarama Purana Viharaya in Maharagama on 13 September, Premadasa declared,

Marking the fourth day of Lt. Col. Thileepan's hunger strike, residents paid their respects at his memorial in Nallur, Jaffna this morning. 

Thileepan fasted unto death in September 1987, in a protest appealing to the Indian government to honour their pledges to the Tamil people.