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Residents of Valikamam North staged a protest at Palaly Junction on Sunday, continuing their campaign for the release of lands that have remained under Sri Lankan military occupation for the fifth consecutive week.

The protest was held by residents who have been deprived of their lands for 36 years, as they demanded the return of homes and properties currently controlled by the Sri Lankan military.

The demonstrators said they have been unable to access their own lands and houses for decades, despite repeated appeals for the return of c

A delegation from the European Union is to visit the Chemmani mass grave in Jaffna on Wednesday morning, after the Jaffna Magistrates Court granted permission for the inspection on Monday, in the latest instance of in

Tamil landowners from Valikamam North staged their 13th consecutive weekly protest on Friday, demanding the release of their lands, which remain occupied within Sri Lankas High Security Zone mor

Tamil must continue to thrive as a living language in Singapore for generations to come, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has said, paying tribute to the countrys Tamil educators at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the Singapore Tamil Teachers Union (STTU), in one of only a handful of countries where Tamil is an official language.

Addressing guests on 17 July, Wong congratulated the union, which was founded 75 years ago and predates Singapores independence, on its growth from a handful of members in its early days into what he called a vibrant union run entirel

The remains of two infants found buried joined together, provisionally recorded as possible conjoined twins, and a skeleton buried in a seated position are among the discoveries mad

Residents of Keppapilavu in Mullaitivu marked the 25th consecutive day of their renewed protest on Saturday, demanding the full return of ancestral Tamil lands that remain under Sri Lankan military occupation.

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The Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha will proceed with action to demolish a Sri Lankan military hospital being constructed in Vasavilan without the local authoritys approval, Presidents Counsel and former parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran has said, in the latest turn in a dispute over the militarys construction of permanent installations on occupied Tamil land.

Sumanthiran said the military is building the hospital on privately owned land that falls within the jurisdiction of the Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha, without ob

When Argentinas players unfurled a banner reading "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" after their World Cup semifinal victory over England this week, the British state required no time for reflection. Within a day, Downing Street had urged FIFA to investigate, ministers had denounced the gesture, and the Prime Ministers spokesperson had delivered the line that "the World Cup might not be ours, but the Falkland Islands definitely are". Beneath the quip sat the position London has held for four decades: that the future of the islands rests on the right of the islanders to self-determination, a right

A new report by the International Truth and Justice Project has documented how Sri Lanka’s Office on Missing Persons has failed to deliver truth, accountability or meaningful redress, warning that the body has become part of an “architecture of denial”.

The report, titled Architecture of Denial: Sri Lanka’s Office on Missing Persons, was published in July 2026 and examines the performance of the OMP nearly a decade after it was mandated under the government of Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickremesinghe. The OMP was established as Sri Lanka�