As part of a series marking the atrocities of Mullivaikkal, land protestors from Keppapilavu shared their reflections on their experiences and the struggles they continue to face a decade on.
<p>Amnesty International calls for accountability in Sri Lanka warning that a continued failure to deliver on the transitional justice process would further fuel violence.</p>
Sri Lanka's president, Maithripala Sirisena has granted a pardon to Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the leader of the extremist Buddhist monk organisation, Bodu Bala Sena.
Students at the University of Jaffna yesterday called for the charges against two student union leaders and a canteen owner to be dropped and said they would boycott classes until then.
Sri Lanka today extending the state of emergency by one month, following the Easter Sunday attacks by Islamist extremists last month.
Issuing a special gazette the Sri Lankan president said, "I am of the opinion that by the reason of a public emergency in Sri Lanka, it is expedient, so to do, in the interest of public security, the preservation of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community."
Events were held in Toronto and Ottawa this week, as thousands of Tamils gathered to mark a decade since the genocide at Mullivaikkal.
At Albert Campbell Square in Toronto, Tamils were joined by parliamentarians and community leaders as they laid flowers before a Tamil genocide memorial.
An exhibition was held by the Tamil Information Centre this weekend, showcasing the history, culture and politics of the Tamil people on the island in memory of the massacres in Mullivaikkal a decade ago.
The Janantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today submitted a no-confidence motion against the government over its failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings by Islamist extremists despite numberous warnings by other states.
The Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that Muslim schools, known as Madrasas, would be brought under the Ministry of Education, following the Easter Sunday bombings by Islamic extremists.
An ID tag was found by the skeletal remains of an LTTE cadre, which was discovered close to the Sri Lankan military's 681 Brigade camp in Mullivaikkal on May 17.
The Sri Lankan Muslim diaspora in Toronto on Sunday marched through the city, demanding that the perpetrators of the recent anti-Muslim violence are brought to justice.
If the Sri Lankan government continues to reject key tenets of a UN Human Rights Council resolution on accountability then “clearly something has to be done in another direction,” UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn told the Tamil Guardian in an interview this weekend.
Cross party UK MPs joined Tamils in London to remember the Mullivaikkal massacre that took place ten years ago.
John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of Exchequer said, “some of you will remember that we stood in Parliament together and heard reports of almost genocidal attacks on the Tamil people. Not just 10 years ago, but some of us remember standing with you 1983."
