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.
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.
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.
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Sujeewa Senasinghe has been forced to retract a letter convening the inaugural meeting of a proposed Sri Lanka–Israel Parliamentary Friendship Association, after admitting it was issued “in error.”
Sri Lanka has recorded the highest number of attacks on Indian nationals abroad since 2022, according to official data presented in the Indian Parliament by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
The United States concluded “Exercise Pacific Angel – 2025” in Sri Lanka last week, further entrenching military cooperation with Colombo despite ongoing allegations of war crimes and genocide by Sri Lankan security forces.
Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has admitted that members of parliament and cabinet are directly linked to underworld figures running the island’s sprawling criminal and drug networks.
The National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) hosted a high-profile panel discussion at the Geneva Press Club this week, where international legal experts and Tamil civil society representatives reiterated that accountability for atrocities in Sri Lanka can only come through independent international prosecutions, not domestic mechanisms.
An investigative team visited the suspected mass grave site at Kurukkalmadam in Batticaloa last week, to plan the next stage of excavations and exhumations amid renewed demands from Tamil families for international oversight.
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