The Sri Lankan government reopened the Palaly-Achchuveli road in Jaffna yesterday after 34 years but the peninsula and the rest of the North-East remains occupied by the Sri Lankan military.
Today marks 17 years since S. P. Thamilselvan, the head of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was assassinated by the Sri Lankan air force (SLAF).
The United Nations has awarded Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving in South Sudan with medals although they have a history of egregious human rights abuses at home and abroad.
On October 17, 17 officers and 48 Other ranks from the Sri Lankan contingent received medals "in recognition of their dedicated service."
The Sri Lankan government confirmed it has launched an investigation into its High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Rohitha Bogollagama, after allegations of financial misconduct in London.
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) announced that another group of Sri Lankans are leaving to work in Israel today, to make up for vacancies that were previously occupied by Palestinians, after Israel enforced sweeping revocation of worker permits in several sectors.
Sri Lanka has admitted that the issuing of several travel warnings advising tourists to avoid the Eastern hotspot of Arugam Bay due to a potential ‘terrorist’ attack was not a “pressure tactic”, as investigations reportedly continued.
On this day 29 years ago, over half a million Tamil men, women and children fled their homes in Jaffna as the Sri Lankan military launched a military offensive to capture the peninsula, under the leadership of then president Chandrika Kumaratunga.
The Sri Lankan government will probe into a Channel 4 documentary that highlighted state involvement in the deadly 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, after Sinhala nationalist leader Udaya Gammanpila called for an investigation to identify a government source.
US Ambassador Julie Chung was on a visit to Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya last week where she met with the Tamil families of the disappeared, civil society activists and politicians to discuss the importance of justice, accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka.
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