🚨 Fonseka dismisses genocide claims, slams president for allowing Tamil commemorations Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka lashed out Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting his framing of the armed conflict as a struggle pursued “by all parties for peace” and

🚨 Tamil families of the disappeared demand justice before more survivors pass away Tamil families of the disappeared staged a protest in front of the Vavuniya Old Bus Stand this week, renewing their longstanding call for justice as the number of elderly survivors continues to

🪧 Tamil families of the disappeared mark 3,007 days of protest in Mankulam Tamil families of the disappeared held a protest in Mankulam this week, marking the 3007th consecutive day of their campaign to demand justice for their forcibly disappeared loved ones. Read more ⬇️

Journalists, civil society activists, politicians and general public in Sri Lanka's eastern town of Batticaloa protest the denial of accountability over the killing of Tamil journalist Aiyathurai Nadesan murdered by suspected state sponsored paramilitary 21 years ago.

"He shouldn’t come here before the September sessions” Skeptical about UN Rights Chief’s visit to Sri Lanka, Tamil mothers of the disappeared in war torn Vanni protesting for over 3000 days urge Volker Türk to postpone his trip until the 60th session of the Human Rights Council.

🚨 Tamil families of the disappeared urge UN human rights chief to visit Mullivaikkal Tamil families of the disappeared have requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to meet with them and visit Mullivaikkal during his visit to Sri Lanka later

Investigations at the most recently discovered mass grave in northern Sri Lanka - feared to contain hundreds of bodies - in danger of 'not going to last more than 20 days’ due to lack of funding warns Gajen Ponnambalam MP. Ministry of Justice Sri Lanka Minister Harshana Nanayakkara responds 🔽

Tamil families of the disappeared from the North and East provinces staged a protest today in front of the Jaffna gate at Chemmani, demanding that the Chemmani Siththupaththi mass grave be excavated under international supervision and in accordance with international forensic

Sri Lanka authorities urged to conduct the Chemmani mass grave exhumation to international standards. "This is not just an isolated incident, and its investigation and exhumation could help reveal the larger truth about war crimes and crimes against humanity" ARED in Jaffna

🪧 Jaffna University students protest over arrest of Tamil farmers Students at the University of Jaffna held a protest on Tuesday, demanding the immediate and unconditional release of two Tamil farmers from Mullaitivu who have been arrested whilst farming their own land,

During today’s excavation at the Chemmani Siththupaththi mass grave site, a few more human skeletons were recovered, bringing the total number of recovered skeletons to 18 so far. The process continues under court supervision, with families of the disappeared and human rights

Tamils have long called for international supervision and forensic expertise to investigate Sri Lanka’s many mass graves. This is a low-hanging fruit the Sri Lankan government could act on if it truly cared about the demands of truth and justice for victims and survivors.

After 16 years, what has the gov done to build even an iota of confidence in their investigations? About time that Amnesty and co take the lead from the Tamil families who have been demanding for international involvement.

An excavation of a mass grave should not be instrumentalised by the gov to curry favour and “build confidence”. If they want to build confidence, allow international involvement.

🚨 New report details Sri Lanka’s surveillance and intimidation in the North-East A newly released report by the Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) has detailed the extent to which Sri Lanka’s security forces continue to maintain an oppressive culture of

On June 23, 2025, Tamil activists and families of the disappeared gathered for a three-day protest (Anaiya Vilakku or ‘Unextinguished Flame’) seeking international justice for Tamil victims murdered by the Sri Lankan military and buried in mass graves in Chemmani, Jaffna.

Tamil victims, families of the disappeared, and civil society groups staged a peaceful protest in Trincomalee this morning, during the visit of UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk to the Eastern Province. Holding photographs of missing loved ones and placards demanding

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk visited and observed the Jaffna Chemmani Siththupaththi mass grave site, He also paid his tribute at the “Anaiya Vilakku” ( Imperishable lamp) protest a symbolic vigil organized by Voluntary Youth group “People’s action” demanding

"Entrenched identity politics" - as if they'd ever say that about Ukraine. Tamils are entitled to their national identity, if that's what they desire, and in the last 16 years they have reaffirmed again and again that that's the case.

Govt's Sri Lankan identity, rooted in a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocracy, is taken for granted, while Tamil resistance to supremacy is problematised.