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Twenty years ago this week, seventeen aid workers were found executed at their office in Muttur. Sixteen were Tamil, one was Muslim, and all worked for the French humanitarian organisation Action contre la Faim, having stayed behind in a town consumed by fighting to serve families displaced by war and still recovering from the tsunami. Fifteen lay face down in the compound, shot at point-blank range through the head and neck. Two more, who appear to have tried to flee, were found in a vehicle nearby. Two decades on, not a single person has been charged. 

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Despite his recent slip-up with 2024’s ‘Captain Miller’, director Arun Matheswaran is a talented and capable filmmaker with a taste for the wretched and violent. For his latest feature ‘DC’, director Lokesh Kanagaraj turns lead actor for the first time, starring alongside Wamiqa Gabbi, who returns to the Tamil industry after her debut in 2023’s Thiagarajan Kumararaja episode of ‘Modern Love: Chennai’: ‘Ninaivo Oru Paravai’. The film sees director Matheswaran back in form with a gritty romantic action-thriller. 

The film follows Das (Kanagaraj), a Robin Hood type gangster wit

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Newly appointed YesCymru chair Rob Hughes

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The families of the 17 humanitarian workers executed at their office in Muttur have broken two decades of silence, giving testimony for the first time as Action Against Hunger renews its demand that Sri Lanka open a credible investigation into one of the deadliest attacks ever carried out against aid workers.

The report, published to mark the twentieth anniversary, carries anonymous accounts from relatives who have spent 20 years seeking answers, many suffering in silence for fear of reprisals. The organisation