Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day 16th Anniversary of the Tamil Genocide by Sri Lankan State / Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day May 19, 2025 May 18, 2025 marks the 16th year of the Tamil Genocide at Mullivaikkal in North-East Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan state It is time the international community enables the Tamil people to… Read more »
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PEARL: Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day — Still No Justice, Still No Accountability
by People for Equality & Relief in Lanka, May 18, 2025 PEARL Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day May 2025 Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day — Still No Justice, Still No Accountability Washington, D.C.; May 18, 2025 – Today marks the 16th anniversary of the Mullivaikkal Genocide, commemorated annually as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day. Around the world this… Read more »
ARED: Letter to Sri Lanka Core Group
by Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappearances, Kilinochchi, May 12, 2025 Letter from Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappearances to Sri Lanka Core Group May 12 2025 Chairperson and Committee Members Core Group on Sri Lanka United Nations Human Rights Council Geneva Dear Sirs/Madams, We, the relatives of those who were forcibly disappeared… Read more »
SLC: Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day 2025
Memory, Mourning and the Long Struggle for Justice by Sri Lanka Campaign, London, May 16, 2025 Sixteen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Tamil survivors and families of the disappeared are still fighting for one of the fundamental human rights: the right to mourn. Every May 18, Mullivaikkal Day serves as both… Read more »
MK Stalin Interview in Deccan Herald
The Tuesday Interview | BJP and its ideology should be opposed beyond elections: Stalin In an interview with DH’s E.T.B. Sivapriyan, Stalin criticized the AIADMK-BJP alliance as detrimental to Tamil Nadu, accused Governor R N Ravi of acting as a puppet of the Union Government, undermining democracy, and disregarding judicial verdicts. by ETB Sivapriyan, Deccan… Read more »
What is India’s Long-Awaited Caste Census?
and why has it sparked outcry from Modi’s followers? by Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, The Independent, London, May 2, 2025 The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications. Information minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Wednesday that the census would count the populations… Read more »
15 Years of Politically Informed Subnational Governance Reform in Sri Lanka (2005-2020)
Ride the Wind but Know the Tide by Gopa Thampi and Nicola Nixon, TWP Community of Practice, University of Birmingham & Asia Foundation, April 2025 TWP-CoP-TAF-Story-of-change.pdf 1. Introduction This case study provides an example of Thinking and Working Politically (TWP) in practice, by unpacking The Asia Foundation’s efforts to support reform of Sri Lanka’s subnational… Read more »
What’s Legally Allowed in War
How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China. by Colin Jones, The New Yorker, April 25, 2025 This past July, Geoffrey Corn, a law professor at Texas Tech and a former judge advocate general in the… Read more »
Nixon’s Cold-War Call On Colombo
by Vinod Moonesinghe, Roar Media, October 22, 2021 On 27 November 1953, after a month touring 15 Asian countries, US Vice President Richard M Nixon, accompanied by his wife Pat, arrived at Ratmalana Airport on a three-day visit to Sri Lanka, then known officially as “Ceylon”. It was the first visit by a US holder of… Read more »
Understanding Modern Sri Lanka — Interview with Journalist Mark Salter
A Crisis of Governance and the Fluidity of Ethnic Identity by Pitasanna Shanmugathas, University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Canada, Jurist.org. April 25, 2025 Edited by: Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Mark Salter, a journalist, analyst, and writer with over 25 years of professional experience in democratization, governance, and post-conflict peacebuilding, speaks to JURIST’s Senior… Read more »
Richard Armitage Obituary
Richard Armitage has notoriety among Tamils for arming one side – the Sri Lankan government – which fatally destabilized the 2002 ceasefire between the LTTE & the government. – ED Richard L. Armitage, 79, Dies; State Department Official in a Turbulent Era While serving as Colin Powell’s deputy during the Iraq war, he found himself… Read more »
Selective Justice is Not Justice
Tamil Guardian editorial, London, March 16, 2025 Selective justice is not justice Mar 16, 2025 The aftermath of former Sri Lankan president’s Ranil Wickremesinghe disastrous Al Jazeera interview continued to reverberate across the island this week, after Colombo announced the tabling of the Batalanda Commission Report in Parliament. For decades, the report, which details the use of… Read more »
Al Jazeera: Who is to Blame for Sri Lanka’s Crises?
by Head to Head, Al Jazeera, London, March 6, 2025 When Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country in 2022 – amidst mass protests and an economic crisis– parliament elected veteran politician and six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. As President, Wickremesinghe negotiated the country’s biggest bail-out, but his critics say he is part of… Read more »
TNPF: Letter to Core Group on Sri Lanka
by Tamil National Peoples Front, March 5, 2025 Tamil National People’s Front (All Ceylon Tamil Congress) No: 43, 3rd Cross Street, Jaffna 05 March 2025 Heads of Missions in Geneva of the Core Group on Sri Lanka Your Excellencies, Regarding a new resolution on Sri Lanka at the 58th session of the UNHRC We refer… Read more »
UNHCHR: Oral Update on Progress in Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka
[followed by statements by the Core Group & Sri Lanka below] Presentation of the High Commissioner’s annual reports on Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras Oral update on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua Presentation of the OHCHR annual report on Cyprus Oral update on progress in reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka Statement by Maarit… Read more »
NESoHR Responds to HRW Report ‘Living in Fear’ 2005
by North East Secretariat for Human Rights, Kilinochchi, February 2005 [courtesy TamilNation.org] NESOHR Karadippokudu Junction Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka nesohr /A_T/ hotmail /D_O_T/ com Tel: 021 228 5986 Fax: 021 228 5986 Established 9 July, 2004 This response is dedicated to Mr. A. Chandra Nehru, a fearless defender of human rights. We would like right at the… Read more »
ITJP: Valvettithurai – Testimonies of a Massacre
by International Truth & Justice Project, South Africa, March 2025 ITJP_VVT-report_Digital_Final-March-2025 [Tamil & Sinhalese versions available] This report uses the voices of those who were there to tell the story of the Valvettithurai massacre in 1989, one of the worst atrocities committed by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka. From 1987-1990, India… Read more »
ITJP: Dossiers
by International Truth & Justice Project Sri Lanka, South Africa, ongoing ITJP dossiers Sisira Mendis ITJP The-case-against-Sisira-Mendis-final 2016 Major General (ret.) Jagath Dias ITJP_Jagath_Dias_dossier-final_210816_120919 2017 General (ret.) Jagath Jayasuriya Profile & Command Responsibility ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_1_v8.1 Joseph Camp Role ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_2_v5 Attacks on Hospitals 2009 ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_3_v6 Executions & Disappearances ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_4_v4 Conflict Timeline & Map ITJP_JJ_fact_sheet_5_v5 August 2017 Major General… Read more »
Discovery of Skeletal Remains in Chemmani Reignites Fears of Mass Graves in Jaffna
The discovery of human skeletal remains near Chemmani, Jaffna, has once again raised fears and painful memories among Tamil residents by Tamil Guardian, London, February 17, 2025 The discovery of human skeletal remains near Chemmani, Jaffna, has once again raised fears and painful memories among Tamil residents, recalling the Chemmani mass graves that were uncovered… Read more »
ITJP: Gamini Silva Dossier
by International Truth & Justice Project Sri Lanka, South Africa, February 17, 2025 Gamini-Silva-Public-Dossier_final ITJP Dossiers Gamini Silva [Full legal name: Palliyaguruge Sarath Gamini Silva (a.k.a. Gamini de Silva)] Date of Birth: September 3, 1953 Career: • Member of the National Police Commission (May 2023 – April 2024);1 [Retired from police force in December 2013];2… Read more »