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‘Our Reporter’ is a collective byline representing a team of Jaffna- and Sri Lanka-based journalists and editorial staff who contribute to Jaffna Monitor.


Wigneswaran Accuses NPP Government of "Racial Bias" on Tamil Self-Governance

Wigneswaran Accuses NPP Government of "Racial Bias" on Tamil Self-Governance

Former Northern Province Chief Minister and Tamil People's Council Secretary-General Justice C.V. Wigneswaran has sharply criticized the National People's Power (NPP) government, accusing it of acting with "more racial bias and less intellectual understanding than any other party that ruled Sri Lanka" when it comes to restoring self-governing rights to Tamils. Wigneswaran made the remarks recently while inaugurating the Tamil People's Council headquarters on Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan Road in J


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Sweet Deal Turns Sour: Mahinda Gets Bitter Court Summons in Sugar Scam

Sweet Deal Turns Sour: Mahinda Gets Bitter Court Summons in Sugar Scam

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ordered that a summons be issued to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in connection with a 2020 sugar import tax concession that allegedly caused the government losses exceeding Rs. 15.8 billion (approximately USD 53 million). Legal sources noted that Rajapaksa — a dominant figure in post-war Sri Lankan politics — has previously avoided direct legal accountability in several corruption inquiries despite substantial evidence of irregularities. However, they suggest


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Harini Amarasuriya’s U-Turn on War Crimes Accountability

Harini Amarasuriya’s U-Turn on War Crimes Accountability

Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya has firmly rejected calls for an international investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, insisting that accountability must be pursued through domestic mechanisms—a position that has drawn sharp criticism from Tamil parliamentarians and raised questions about the Prime Minister's apparent ideological shift from her activist past. Government's Stance: Domestic Over International Speaking in Parliament in response to oral questions, Prime Minister Har


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Diaspora Tamil DJ Faces Racist Threats, Forced to Close Ahangama Restaurant

Diaspora Tamil DJ Faces Racist Threats, Forced to Close Ahangama Restaurant

In a sobering reflection of how old prejudices continue to shadow modern Sri Lanka, Robert Rajeswaran—better known behind the turntables as DJ Rob R—says he is shutting down his newly launched Indian restaurant, Tiffins, in the southern coastal town of Ahangama following weeks of intimidation, death threats, and physical assault from locals. The decision has left the 30-something artist questioning whether a Tamil entrepreneur can feel truly safe in a Sinhala-majority area, even 16 years after


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Bimal Rathnayake’s Ports Docked and Aviation Grounded by His Own Racist Politics

Bimal Rathnayake’s Ports Docked and Aviation Grounded by His Own Racist Politics

Bimal Rathnayake, arguably the most controversial minister in Anura Kumara Dissanayake's government and widely accused by Tamil parties of obstructing Northern development for racist reasons, has been removed from his powerful Ports and Aviation portfolio and reassigned as Minister of Transport, Highways and Urban Development. Tamil political circles have long accused Rathnayake of personally blocking the development of Palaly Airport and Kankesanthurai (KKS) Harbour — two projects viewed as cr


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Fonseka Says Mahinda Rajapaksa Deserves Hanging; SLPP Hits Back, Calls Him a Dog
Then President Mahinda Rajapaksa greets then–Chief of Defence Staff Sarath Fonseka in Colombo.

Fonseka Says Mahinda Rajapaksa Deserves Hanging; SLPP Hits Back, Calls Him a Dog

Former Army Commander and ex-MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has launched a scathing attack on former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, accusing him of colluding with the LTTE during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war, misappropriating state assets, and betraying the nation’s trust. In an explosive remark, Fonseka declared that his former boss “deserves death by hanging.” Mahinda’s party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), was also not holding its tongue, firing back with a barrage of co


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Arundhati Roy Says Gaza Echoes Sri Lanka’s Final War

Arundhati Roy Says Gaza Echoes Sri Lanka’s Final War

Booker Prize–winning author and political activist Arundhati Roy has drawn direct parallels between the Israeli assault on Gaza, which has since come to a ceasefire, and Sri Lanka’s military offensive  in 2009, describing both as examples of unchecked, state-led massacres that have reshaped the global standard for impunity. In a wide-ranging interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan, Roy described the carnage in Gaza as "a genocide unfolding before us, in a way that has never been so visible to the


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No Divides in Our DNA: Dr. Maanasa Raghavan on Sri Lanka’s Shared Ancestry
Dr. Maanasa Raghavan

No Divides in Our DNA: Dr. Maanasa Raghavan on Sri Lanka’s Shared Ancestry

A recent study on Sri Lankan populations, published in Current Biology (June 2025), goes beyond science: it challenges long-held assumptions about population origins and rewrites our understanding of Sri Lankan genetic history. Dr. Maanasa Raghavan led this research alongside Dr. Niraj Rai of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences and Dr. Ruwandi Ranasinghe of the University of Colombo. Dr. Maanasa Raghavan is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Human Genetics at the University of C


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