by British Tamils Forum, London, July 30, 2026 BTF Chemmani Mass Graves – Overview of Forensic findings & International Legal Frameworks Chemmani Mass Graves An Interim Overview of Forensic Findings and International Legal Frameworks The forensic evidence unearthed at the Chemmani mass grave site points to potential violations across several major international legal regimes: •… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Politics
Threats to Civic Space in Sri Lanka
A perfect storm: Digitalisation, new laws, draft bills, and threats to civic space in Sri Lanka by Sanjana Hattotuwa in his blog, Colombo, August 18, 2026 Since 2023, Sri Lanka has enacted, circulated or in some way referred to at least 7 laws and draft laws that bear directly on what citizens and organisations can say,… Read more »
Why Eelam Tamils Must Read Robespierre
The Vortex of Virtue and Lessons of Revolution by Krishna Ambalavanar, Ezhugai Magazine, July 28, 2026 The French Revolution of 1789, which erupted at the end of the eighteenth century, remains a monumental watershed moment that permanently altered the course of global history. . Maximilien Robespierre emerged as the most central, influential, and intensely debated leader… Read more »
Contemporary Dimension of the Vaddukoddai Resolution
A Progressive Leftist Critical Review by Krishna Ambalavanar, Elugai News and in his blog, August 11, 2026 Introduction: History and Contemporary Relevance The Vaddukoddai Resolution, adopted on May 14, 1976, near Jaffna, remains one of the most defining milestones in the political history of the Tamil national struggle in Sri Lanka. Convened under the leadership… Read more »
SLCPJ: 43 Years Since Black July: The Accountability Gap Revisited
by Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice, London, July 20, 2026 Black July remains one of the darkest chapters in Sri Lanka’s post-independence history. Every year, SLC commemorates July 1983, when the Sri Lankan state committed a 7-day anti-Tamil pogrom, killing around 3,000 Tamil civilians and injuring, raping, and forcibly displacing thousands more. In… Read more »
Minority Representation in a New Political Era
Who gets heard? by Aingkaran Kugathasan, The Sunday Observer, Colombo, July 19, 2026 * For decades, minority politics in Sri Lanka has been shaped by a fundamental question: who speaks for communities that often feel unheard within the State? The political changes of 2024 appeared to offer a different answer, that a national political movement… Read more »
Whose Self-Determination?
Tamil Guardian editorial, July 17, 2026 When Argentina’s 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 Minister’s spokesperson… Read more »
How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased
Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border. by Wired, San Francisco, July 6, 2026 Palestinian culture has been looted, destroyed, and displaced for decades. Since October 2023, however, the destruction of Gaza’s cultural institutions has accelerated, prompting a team in the occupied West Bank to build something they hope cannot… Read more »
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity
Articulating the Tamil experience — Editor: Entering the Western public square required that you suppress your own grief and fury. Palestinian suffering was admissible only when abstracted from its own content – drained of the names of villages, the mechanics of land seizure, the grammar of permit and curfew and demolition order – and repackaged… Read more »
ITJP: Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons (OMP)
Architecture of Denial by International Truth & Justice Project, Sri Lanka, South Africa, July 16, 2026 ITJP ENG_ARCHITECTURE-OF-DENIAL-SRI-LANKA-S-OFFICE-ON-MISSING-PERSONS Summary Sri Lanka’s first permanent disappearance commission, the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), mandated in August 2016,1 has spectacularly failed to deliver truth, accountability or meaningful redress over the last decade. The OMP in Sri Lanka has… Read more »
Hindu: Sri Lanka’s Minority Parties Launch Common Platform
For Shared Concerns by Meera Sirinivasan, The Hindu, Chennai, July 13, 2026 Prominent political parties representing Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking ethnic minorities have launched a platform to voice shared concerns around the pending political solution to the island’s national question and the persisting challenges to their communities’ land rights. Addressing a press conference in Colombo on Monday (July 13, 2026), leaders from political parties and alliances —… Read more »
TG: Transitional Justice Cannot Exist Without Truth
Sri Lanka and the continuing erasure of the Eelam Tamil genocide by Simhanjana Gopikrishna Sumathi, Tamil Guardian, London, June 29, 2026 “It happened; therefore, it can happen again…it can happen everywhere.” — Primo Michele Levi, Jewish Holocaust survivor Seventeen years after Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka continues to stand as one of the starkest examples of… Read more »
TG: Prison Rules
Tamil Guardian editorial, London, July 13, 2026 Last week saw the second deadliest episode of prison violence in Sri Lanka’s history. Over two days at Negombo Prison, at least 28 people were killed, among them seven prison officers, and more than a hundred were wounded. By the time the violence which began on Sunday evening… Read more »
Sri Lanka’s Coast Belongs to the Future, Not Foreign Companies
by The Collective for Climate and Economic Justice, Groundviews, Colombo, June 25, 2026 Photo courtesy of Amila Udagedara On June 17, 2026 delegates filed into the Galle Face hotel for the Mineral Sands Technical Conference. Inside, the Chamber of Commerce was doing what it does best: opening doors for capital and closing them on everyone… Read more »
Chemmani Excavation: A Defining Test
for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation by Raj Sivanathan, Groundviews, Colombo, June 21, 2026 The visit by Minister of Justice Harshana Nanayakkara to the ongoing excavation site at Chemmani in Jaffna has once again focused national attention on one of the country’s most sensitive and unresolved human rights issues. His assurance that the government is committed… Read more »
Urgent Concerns Regarding the Imminent Deployment of Sri Lankan Forces to Haiti
by International Peace & Justice Project Sri Lanka & 14 other organizations, June 25, 2026 Final Joint Statement Sri Lanka Haiti Deployment_logos_included NGO STATEMENT URGENT CONCERNS REGARDING THE IMMINENT DEPLOYMENT OF SRI LANKAN FORCES TO HAITI 25 June 2026 International human rights and victims’ groups call on the United Nations, the Government of Haiti, and… Read more »
SLC & BTF: No Sri Lankan Military Deployment to Haiti
Until there is credible accountability, independent vetting and justice for victims by Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice & British Tamils Forum joint statement, London, May 6, 2026 The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice (SLC) and the British Tamils Forum (BTF) are deeply alarmed by reports that Sri Lanka may once again… Read more »
Digital Rights Foundation’s Sri Lanka Chapter
Fragments, not architecture: how a Digital Rights Foundation report’s Sri Lanka chapter misreads a pervasive surveillance state …The authors Prihesh Ratnayake and Omar Rajarathnam mention Tamils and Muslims without treating unequal exposure as the central analytical problem, which is where it belongs, since Sri Lanka’s security state has never distributed suspicion evenly and surveillance lands hardest… Read more »
Vaddukoddai – 50 Keynote Speech
by Thavathiru Velan Swamigal, Chief Coordinator, Vaddukoddai-50 Ezhuchi Maanadu Organising Committee, Jaffna, June 20, 2026 Vaddukoddai – 50 Keynote Speech … We Reclaim Our Nation Today, we have gathered not merely to commemorate a historical event. Rather, we have come together to reflect upon a defining turning point in the history of the Eelam Tamil… Read more »
Impunity, Inequality, and Resistance: Fifty Years On
by J. S. Tissainnayagam, North Eastern Monthly, May 22, updated June 23, 2026 The 50th anniversary of the Vaddukoddai Resolution falls on 14 May. Despite the intervening half-century, the conditions in Sri Lanka that gave birth to the Resolution remain almost intact, forcing Tamils to resist Sinhala hegemony and stand up for dignity, justice and equality. The… Read more »