Politics

Tamil civil society representatives have renewed their call for an "irrevocable federal" power-sharing arrangement in a merged North-East, as the North East Coordinating Committee marked four years since the launch of its campaign for a permanent political solution.

The fourth-year convening of the "100 Days of Activism for a Permanent Political Solution" was held in Jaffna on Saturday, bringing together civil society activists, university students, political representatives and social activists from across the eight districts of the N

Sri Lankas Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara, has said steps will be taken soon to release several tracts of military-occupied land in the Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts, including in Vattuvakal and Keppapilavu, though the pledge is hedged with conditions and follows years of unmet promises to displaced Tamil families.

The assurances came just weeks after Jayasekara told parliament that a further 1,661 acres in the North-East would be permanently acquired for military infrastructure and would not be

Tamil National Green Movement leader P. Ayngaranesan has criticised those who accuse the younger generation of being unaware of the genocide, history and suffering endured by Tamils, arguing that society itself is responsible for failing to preserve historical memory.

Addressing a contemporary political discussion organised by the Tamil National Green Movement at the Kokkuvil Ariviyal Mandapam, Ayngaranesan said it was unreasonable to blame young people for not knowing history after allowing the traces of the Tamil genocide to be concealed, de

The hardline Sinhala nationalist and National Freedom Front (NF) leader Wimal Weerawansa has attacked the ongoing excavation of the Chemmani mass grave, claiming the process is intended to portray Sri Lanka internationally as a country associated with crimes, war crimes and genocide.

Speaking at a media briefing at the NFF headquarters in Colombo on Sunday, Weerawansa, a former minister, alleged that the government had intensified the Chemmani excavation after assuming office, using funds largely contributed through taxes

Sri Lankas Counter Terrorism Investigation Division (CTID) have summoned prominent Tamil activist and author Dr Ramanathan Nagamani Sri Gnaneswaran for an interrogation. 

On July 31, Dr Gnaneswaran received a summons ordering him to appear before the CTID on August 4 over a speech he made in May 2025 at an event organised by the Christian Solidarity Movement to commemorate the Mullivaikkal genocide. 

Dr Gnaneswaran is an Eelam Tamil activist and has authored He and That, Letters from Prison and International Crimes.&nbs

Tamils gathered in Valvettithurai on Sunday to commemorate 37 years since the 1989 Valvettithurai massacre, in which Indian Peace Keeping Force soldiers killed scores of Tamil civilians in an assault that came to be known as "Indias My Lai".

The remembrance event was held in Valvettithurai town on 2 August and organised by the Tamil National Party and the Tamil National Peoples Front. The Tamil National Party leader N. Srikantha and the TNPF general secretary Selvarajah Kajendren were among those who attended, alongside party members and

Twenty years after 17 aid workers were executed at their compound in Muttur, no one has been brought to justice, Human Rights Watchs legal and policy director James Ross has written, in a piece marking the anniversary of one of the most notorious atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan state.

Ross, who was in Sri Lanka when the killings took place on 4 August 2006, said that two decades on he "still cannot report that those responsible have been held to account".

The victims were the local staff of the Paris-based non-governmental organisation Action Con

Sri Lanka abstained as the UN General Assembly voted to extend Volker Türks term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, one of only 13 countries out of 167 to decline to take a position on the future of the official who has continued to press Colombo over accountability for wartime atrocities.

The assembly renewed Türks mandate for a second four-year term, from October 2026 through 2030, by 144 votes to 10, with the extension proposed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The United States, Russia and Israel were among the ten states that voted a

Sri Lankas former inspector general of police, Pujith Jayasundara, and former defence secretary, Hemasiri Fernando, have been sentenced to death over their failure to act on intelligence warnings ahead of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, in one of the most significant judicial reckonings to arise from the attacks that killed more than 260 people.

The Colombo Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar delivered the two verdicts on Friday by a majority decision. Judges Priyantha Liyanage and Thilakaratne Bandara found each man guilty on 854 of the