Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has telephoned the Indian prime minister-designate Narendra Modi  and congratulated him for the “decisive verdict” he received from the people, reported The Hindu.

Rajapaksa extended a personal invitation to Modi to visit Sri Lanka, the president’s spokesman Mohan Samaranayake was quoted as saying.

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa congratulated Narendra Modi for his “magnificent victory” in the Indian elections, reported The Hindu.

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The most senior military delegation from China to have ever visited Sri Lanka called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier today.

Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Air Chief Marshal Xu Qiliang said that the purpose of the visit was to further enhance the “strategic mutual trust” between China and Sri Lanka and to elevate “relations between the two countries and the armed forces to a new level.”

Mr Xu said Sri Lanka’s military was “well-trained and well-managed,” and that the military relationship between the two countries was “a priority”.

“We all know that Your Excellency is a legendary statesman with outstanding leadership,” Mr. Xu said.

“You’re a great hero for defeating terrorism. We admire your success of defeating the LTTE and the rapid (post-war) reconstruction. Within a short period of five years after the war [ended], people are now living a peaceful life. People are enjoying their peaceful lives, the stability and development. It is a great achievement.”

President Rajapaksa said that that Sri Lanka’s support of China in matters such as the One-China Policy and the South China Sea issue will remain the same.

“I assure you our policies towards China have never changed and won’t change. Our position is very clear,” he said.

“We must thank your Government and your people for supporting us at the UN Human Rights Council,” the President said.

New photograph of Isaipriya published in report.

"Eyewitnesses say it was not just the LTTE political wing leaders who were targeted, but at least 102 administrative, financial, political, humanitarian leaders of the LTTE, in addition to unarmed military wing cadres and non-combatants such as children who also surrendered later the same day. There were also other LTTE figures who surrendered in the days before and after 18 May who have disappeared or been killed in the custody of the Sri Lankan security forces

It appears to have been part of a coldblooded plan to wipe out any future Tamil representatives.

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Sri Lankan police officers forcibly disrupted a remembrance event today held outside the office of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in Kaithady, Jaffna, kicking and stamping out a flame of remembrance lit to commemorate the thousands killed in Mullivaikkal 5 years ago, whilst shouting in Sinhala.

NPC Councillors, Ananthy Sasitharan and Mr. Shivajilingham  were holding the commemorative event just outside the office premises, as the gates were padlocked with security forces surrounding the area.

Mr. Shivajilingham was in the process of lighting the flame, when police officers rushed in, throwing the lamp to the ground. 

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is not planning to attend the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer, according to a report on the insidethegames website.

The website says a “potentially harmful diplomatic challenge” for the games will likely be avoided if Rajapaksa stays away, after letters expressing concern about the Sri Lankan president’s visit were sent to Foreign Secretary by the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.

India’s Union Ministry this week extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has been extended for another five years. 

“The Government of India, under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, has proscribed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an ‘Unlawful Association’. The declaration of LTTE as an ‘Unlawful Association’ has been extended for a further period of five years with effect from May 14, 2014,” said a notification made public on Thursday.

The proscription of the LTTE was last extended in 2012.

The notification in 2012 said that the LTTE continued to be working towards “the Eelam cause” and that the government has information that “the activities of the LTTE remnant cadres, dropouts, sympathisers, supporters who have been traced out recently in the State of Tamil Nadu suggest that the cadres sent to Tamil Nadu would ultimately be utilised by the LTTE for unlawful activities”, The Hindu reported.