by Tamil Guardian, London, November 6, 2026 Forensic Archaeological Excavation in Chemmani, Jaffna – 2025-2026 A summary report on findings by Raj Somadeva PhD Tamil families reject Chemmani interim report and call protest at mass grave site Tamil relatives of the forcibly disappeared have rejected the interim report submitted to court by the archaeologist overseeing… Read more »
Posts Categorized: International
Eelam, Exile and the Politics of Identity
by Ana Pararajasingham, Countercurrents, September 30, 2026 While promoting the Netflix film Best of the Best, Canadian Tamil actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan spoke openly about her Tamil identity and her family’s history. “I love who I am as a Tamil Eelam woman,” she said on Hasan Minhaj’s podcast. Her words provoked an extraordinary reaction. Metaphorically speaking, they… Read more »
BBC: Mass Grave of 572 People
Workers came across human remains – and unearthed a mass grave of 572 people by Anbarasan Ethirajan, BBC, September 20, 2026 When a mass grave was unearthed in northern Sri Lanka last February, it was not by design. Workers were digging to extend a cremation ground in the Chemmani area of the Jaffna region when… Read more »
The Limits of Geneva
Tamil Guardian editorial, London, September 15, 2026 Illustration by Keera Ratnam.The reports presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva have become a familiar feature of the struggle to account for the atrocities committed on the island, and last week’s was no exception. Nearly two years into the administration of Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the… Read more »
UN Human Rights Council’s 63rd Session
OHCHR Report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka – OHCHR report Sri Lanka 63rd session Sept 2026 Pasumai Thaayagam’s oral statement on HC’s report begins at 1:07:39 –4th Meeting – 63rd Session of Human Rights Council | UN Web TV. PEARL oral statement – https://x.com/PEARL_Action/status/2097363520773869854/video/1 Pasumai Thaayagam’s oral statement euring the Interactive Dialogue with the… Read more »
What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World
by William Dalrymple, The New York Times, August 28, 2026 Mr. Dalrymple is the author of “The Anarchy” and other books on the history of the East India Company. At noon on Feb. 13, 1788, huge crowds gathered outside Parliament to witness members of the House of Lords process into Westminster Hall. They were there… Read more »
A Disputed, Divisive, Conditional “Amnesty Law” for the PKK
Much Ado About What? by Yavuz Baydar on Substack, August 14, 2026 Shaped by Erdoğan, Bahçeli and Öcalan, the law opens a wider debate on Turkey’s future — peace gesture or further regime consolidation? Turkey’s chronic “system crisis,” spanning over a decade and pushing the country deeper into hard‑core autocratic rule, has reached a notable… Read more »
How Turkey’s PKK Amnesty Law Entwines Kurds’ Hopes with Erdogan’s Ambitions
The first legislation to emerge from direct negotiations with Abdullah Ocalan offers a path to ending Turkey’s war with the PKK while potentially giving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the votes he needs to remain in power for a third term. France24 report on dissolution of SDF, August 26, 2026: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/turkey-says-dissolution-of-kurdish-led-group-crucial-for-syrian-stability/vi-AA2aYnrR?ocid=socialshare by Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor, Washington,… Read more »
India Today: 582 Skeletons, Including Children, Discovered in Sri Lanka Mass Grave
The remains are believed to be of civilians who disappeared during Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, which broke out between government forces and the ethnic Tamil rebels, who sought an independent state. by Abhishek De, India Today, August 20, 2026 Excavation at a mass grave in Sri Lanka has led to the discovery of 582… Read more »
Turkey’s Peace Process with the Kurds
History, Challenges, and the Path Forward by Washington Kurdish Institute, September 26, 2025 The Kurdish people, a distinct ethnic and linguistic group native to the Middle East, have long aspired to self-determination. In the aftermath of World War I, the victorious powers initially floated the idea of an independent Kurdistan in the 1920 Treaty of… Read more »
The New Peace Initiative and Kurdish Perspective
by A.Kadir Yildirim, Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East issue brief, Baylor Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Hoyuston, TX, June 18, 2025 Background on Kurdish Conflict In March 2025, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) embarked on a groundbreaking peace initiative in Turkey to resolve a conflict that spans over four decades and… Read more »
BTF: Chemmani Overview
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 »
ACF: The Muttur Massacre
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied by Action Contre le Faim, Groundviews, Colombo, August 4, 2026 2026 ACF report: ACF rapport-muttur-2026-en-web-compressed_74178155e0 Photo courtesy of ACF (from 2018) “For Muttur, and for humanitarians everywhere, we will never forget, and we will never give up.” Perrine Benoist, Action Against Hunger Co-Director General. “Just after the murders I went to… 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 »
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 »
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 »
ITJP: Architecture of Denial
Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons by International Truth & Justice Project, Sri Lanka, South Africa, July 16, 2026 ITJP ARCHITECTURE-OF-DENIAL-SRI-LANKA-S-OFFICE-ON-MISSING-PERSONS – ENG 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… Read more »