The Tamil Guardian recently sat down with Rathika Sitsabaiesan, human rights activist and former Canadian Member of Parliament, to discuss her new documentary “Ray of Hope”. Sitasbaiesan, the first ever Tamil Canadian MP, discussed resistance, intergenerational trauma, and the future of Tamil Eelam.

The leader-elect of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) Sivagnanam Shritharan, called on Tamils to vote in favour of the common candidate Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanenthiran, as he praised and recalled the sacrifices of LTTE fighters from the Eastern Province.

“We are at a key juncture in our history,” Shritharan told an audience in London this week, with Sri Lankan presidential elections scheduled for this month.

A group of human rights organisations have called on UN member states and observers states to renew the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) at the upcoming UNHRC session to provide Tamil victim survivors with truth, justice and reparations. 

A staunch supporter of Eelam Tamil aspirations and an unwavering voice for those who fought for freedom and safety for asylum seekers, Viraj Mendis was laid to rest in Germany this week.

The Jaffna Press Club held a memorial event for Tamil journalist Pragas Gnanapragasam who passed away after contracting coronavirus in 2021, aged just 26-years-old. 

A Sri Lankan court issued a restraining order against four members of the Association for the Families of the Disappeared, preventing them from protesting in Vavuniya town on Sunday, in yet another move to supress Tamil protests.

With Sri Lanka’s presidential polls looming, Tamil Guardian spoke with the Tamil common candidate, Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanenthiran, about his decision to contest and what the concept of a common candidate means for the Tamil nation. 

In Batticaloa’s Gandhi Park, an art exhibition unveiled 150 paintings that powerfully conveyed themes of loss, grief, and the relentless search for the disappeared—15 years after the Mullivaikkall genocide.