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“The decision to reopen liquor shops has been taken without the consultation of the Health Ministry,” said Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr Hemantha Herath addressing the media, earlier today. 

As the 48^th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council continues in Geneva, Tamil Families of the Disappeared in Mannar have called on the international community to deliver justice for their forcibly disappeared loved ones.

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Secretary of the Vavuniya District Disappeared Association, C. Zenitra, said there should be no political motives when it comes to the Tamil fight for justice for the victims of enforced disappearances.

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, G. L. Peiris, briefed the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, during a virtual meeting as part of the 76^th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Sunday.

The Sri Lankan military spearheaded the vaccination drive in Mannar, in what was another manifestation of the militarisation of civil society in the island. 

Dozens of relatives of a Tamil man, who died after being found unconscious outside of the Sri Lankan police station in Kankesanthurai (KKS), Jaffna on Thursday, staged a protest demanding justice over his suspicious death.

Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has arrived in New York to attend the 76^th UN General Assembly (UNGA) Session, marking what will be his first address to the UNGA. 

He arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport yesterday where he was greeted by Mohan Peiris, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations.

Speaking at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Bologna Italy, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, G.L. Peiris, attacked ethnic and religious political parties in Sri Lanka claiming that “it does a great deal of damage”.

In advance of a visit by a delegation from the European Union (EU) to review the GSP+ facility, Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary, Jayanath Colombage, claimed that country had “nothing to hide”.

Former Member of the Northern Provincial Council T. Ravikaran and Member of Parliament S. Kajendran have thwarted an attempt to appropriate the lands belonging to the Tamils in Kokkuthoduvai, Mullaitivu. 

Speaking to the press on the detention of Eelam Tamil refugees in the Trichy Central Jail “Special Camp,” parliamentarian Selvam Adaikalanathan called on the Tamil Nadu government to release the detainees immediately.