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 »
Posts Categorized: International
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 »
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 »
UNHRC 62: Sri Lanka Core Group Statement
by UK Ambassador Eleanor Sanders on behalf of Sri Lanka Core Group, Geneva, June 16, 2026 Thank you Mr President. This statement is by the Sri Lanka Core Group comprising Canada, Malawi, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and the United Kingdom. High Commissioner, we thank your Office for its continued work on Sri Lanka. We acknowledge government… Read more »
Action Against Hunger Calls for a New Investigation
Twenty Years On, the Killing of 17 Humanitarian Workers Remains Unpunished by Action Contre le Faim, Paris, June 15, 2026 Twenty years ago, on August 4, 2006, 17 staff members of Action Against Hunger, engaged in delivering humanitarian aid, were executed in our office in Muttur, Sri Lanka. They were wearing T-shirts and vests clearly… Read more »
Prabhakaran, Tamil identity and TVK
Is Vijay building a neo-Dravidian project? by Ajmal Abbas in New Delhi, India Today, May 20, 2026 Repeatedly invoking the memory of Prabhakaran and the emotional legacy of the Tamil cause, Vijay appears to be crafting a new ideological synthesis of the welfare-driven legacy of Dravidianism with cultural assertiveness of Tamil nationalism. In 2008, at… Read more »
Changing of the Guard
by Mario Arulthas, North-Eastern Monthly, May 14, updated June 10, 2026 Fifty years after the Vaddukkoddai Resolution, the Sri Lankan state’s efforts to destroy Eelam Tamil nationalism have failed. Since the end of the war in 2009, everyday Tamils have taken over from the stagnant institutions that positioned themselves as successors to the armed resistance…. Read more »
Abraham Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation” and S.J.V. Chelvanayagam’s “Vaddukoddai Resolution”
Drawing parallels by Balan Kugabalan, May 13, 2026 On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed Presidential Proclamation 95, later known as the “Emancipation Proclamation,” freeing 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the Confederate States. More than a century later, on May 14, 1976, in Sri Lanka, S. J. V. Chelvanayagam led the adoption of… Read more »
The Hindu: On the 2026 Assembly Elections
Lost and found The National Democractic Alliance’s success in Bengal and Assam is partly offset by its failure in Tamil Nadu and Kerala The Hindu editorial, Chennai, May 05, 2026 The results of the 2026 Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry highlight several factors that have a bearing on India’s direction as a secular, democratic, federal republic. In… Read more »
From Tamil Cinema Superstar to Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister
Joseph Vijay by Unni K Chennamkulath, The New Indian Express, May 9, 2026 Whether his government succeeds or falters will shape Tamil Nadu’s next political chapter. But Vijay has already transformed the state’s political landscape, emerging as the architect of one of its most significant modern political breakthroughs. ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay has scripted one of the… Read more »
Vijay’s Historic Victory
Chance for Lanka to reset relations by The Examiner, Colombo, May 8, 2026 Vijay’s two-year-old political party has redrawn the Tamil Nadu electoral map. Though he echoed the long-standing consensus on Sri Lankan issues, this fresh chapter in Tamil Nadu politics may be an opportunity to ‘reset’ Lanka-Tamil Nadu relations. Actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay upended… Read more »
Amnesty: Prageeth, the Trinco 5 & 2026 Reports
by Amnesty International, London, various dates *** Amnesty Annual Report on Human Rights, April 21, 2026 Sri Lanka 2025 A new government took office in late 2024, promising transformational change. However, the new administration continued to use the draconian anti-terror law and failed to reform other laws, negatively affecting freedom of expression and rights for… Read more »
‘India’s Fiscal Federalism Must Be Reimagined’
To ensure every vote carries equal weight’ Shruti Rajagopalan, economist and professor at George Mason University, argues that any future effort to enlarge the Lok Sabha and apportion seats by population requires fundamental changes to the Indian polity by: Shruti Rajagopalan, Indian Express, Mumbai, April 20, 2026 Delimitation is the act of drawing political lines…. Read more »
Decentralise or Decline: The South’s Warning
by Nilakantan RS, Off Beat Concerns, India, April 19, 2026 Though the move for delimitation has for now, failed in Parliament, the concerns it raised about federal balance, representation, and transparency remain unresolved—especially for the southern states. In this conversation with Shahina KK, author and commentator Nilakantan RS, known for his work South vs North, examines… Read more »
Intl Crisis Group: Sri Lanka’s Bumpy Road to a Political Reset
Twin elections in 2024 transformed Sri Lanka’s political landscape, bringing to power a president and parliamentarians who pledged sweeping reforms. So far, however, the new government has made little progress toward this end. It has work to do to show it can do politics differently. by International Crisis Group, Brussels, April 16, 2026 What’s new? Almost… Read more »