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## Posts
- [Pempalā](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/pempala.md) - K. Mohammad Riyas Translated by eḻuttukkiṉiyavaṉ (https://ezi.asokan.org/about). from the Tamil story “பெம்பலா” (pempalā) by K. Mohammad Riyas from the short story collection titled “சிகரி மார்க்கம் (cikari mārkkam)” Pempalā ’s bicycle was absent from its usual place under the lone palmyra tree out…
- [India Sends a Message to Colombo — and to Tamil Leaders](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/india-sends-a-message-to-colombo-and-to-tamil-leaders.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy The Indian government has publicly raised a demand for early Provincial Council elections in Sri Lanka despite knowing that powerful interest groups in the country are arrayed against devolution of power. During a hectic day-long visit to Colombo on Wednesday, Indian Foreign S…
- [How Justice Was Derailed After the Muttur Massacre](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/how-justice-was-derailed-after-the-muttur-massacre.md) - By Aruliniyan Mahalingam JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — It was around 4:15 in the afternoon of Aug. 4, 2006. The men who came through the gate asked in Sinhala what the aid workers were doing there when everyone else in the town had fled, according to an account assembled by the University Teachers for Human…
- [Cardinal Urges Court Not to Obstruct Easter Bombings Investigation](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/cardinal-urges-court-not-to-obstruct-easter-bombings-investigation.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has urged Sri Lanka's Court of Appeal to allow the ongoing investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings to proceed without interference, arguing that previous inquiries had failed to properly investigate the attacks and that the…
- [Jaffna Court Orders Gotabaya Rajapaksa to Give Evidence in Lalith-Kugan Case](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/jaffna-court-orders-gotabaya-rajapaksa-to-give-evidence-in-lalith-kugan-case.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — The Jaffna Magistrate’s Court has ordered former Sri Lankan President and Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appear before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court on Sept. 29 to give evidence via video link in the long-running judicial inquiry into the disappearance of activis…
- [Where Does the Fuel Money Go? Jaffna MP Points to the Ruling Party](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/where-does-the-fuel-money-go-jaffna-mp-points-to-the-ruling-party.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Independent Jaffna District MP Ramanathan Archchuna said the monthly fuel allowance paid to Members of Parliament had increased from 179,000 rupees to 244,000 rupees, and alleged that an amount equivalent to the allowance received by each of the Government's 159 MPs is deposite…
- [Twenty Years After Muttur Massacre, International Pressure Mounts for Justice](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/twenty-years-after-muttur-massacre-international-pressure-mounts-for-justice.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Twenty years after the execution-style killing of 17 humanitarian workers from the French aid organization Action Against Hunger (ACF) in the eastern town of Muttur, a broad coalition of international governments, United Nations agencies and human rights organizations has renew…
- [Northern Central Hospital Convicted Over Expired Medicines in Jaffna](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/northern-central-hospital-convicted-over-expired-medicines-in-jaffna.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A private hospital in Jaffna has been fined 300,000 Sri Lankan rupees after pleading guilty to charges of possessing expired medicines and surgical supplies, while a private medical clinic was fined 100,000 rupees for charging patients above the government-approved maximum fee f…
- [India Presses Sri Lanka on Tamil Devolution, Unveils New Financing](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/india-presses-sri-lanka-on-tamil-devolution-unveils-new-financing.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri called on Sri Lanka's government Wednesday to hold provincial council elections “at the earliest” and to fully implement the island’s constitutional provisions for the Tamil minority, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said, during his fi…
- [India's Foreign Secretary Arrives in Sri Lanka for High-Level Talks](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/indias-foreign-secretary-arrives-in-sri-lanka-for-high-level-talks.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — India's Foreign Secretary, Vikram Misri, arrived in Colombo on Wednesday for a one-day official visit, as New Delhi and Colombo seek to sustain momentum in their expanding bilateral relationship following a series of high-level engagements in recent months. Mr. Misri, a career…
- [MP Questions Government's Reliance on 'National Security' to Retain Civilian Lands](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/mp-questions-governments-reliance-on-national-security-to-retain-civilian-lands.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Batticaloa District MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam on Tuesday accused the Government of continuing to rely on outdated wartime justifications to retain civilian lands under military occupation in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, arguing that nearly 17 years after the end of Sri…
- [India Signals Preference for Building on Existing Constitution as Tamil Alliance Seeks Political Progress](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/india-signals-preference-for-building-on-existing-constitution-as-tamil-alliance-seeks-political-progress.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — India has privately indicated that Sri Lanka should exercise caution before abandoning its existing constitutional framework in favour of drafting an entirely new Constitution, according to leaders who attended a meeting Tuesday between the country’s newly formed alliance of si…
- [Government Rules Out Returning Key Military-Held Lands in Northern Sri Lanka](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/government-rules-out-returning-key-military-held-lands-in-northern-sri-lanka.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka —Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka's civil war and the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the government said Tuesday that it would retain military control over lands in Valikamam North it considers essential to national security, reaffirming that lar…
- [Government Seeks Royal Pardon for Anojan After Saudi Sentence](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/government-seeks-royal-pardon-for-sivarasa-anojan-after-saudi-sentence.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka is pursuing both legal and diplomatic efforts to assist Sivarasa Anojan, the Sri Lankan migrant worker sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court over a Facebook comment deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, with officials confirming that discussions are underway on filing…
- [Opposition Lawmaker Questions Exclusion of Sirisena From Easter Bombings Prosecution](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/opposition-lawmaker-questions-exclusion-of-sirisena-from-easter-bombings-prosecution.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan opposition lawmaker on Tuesday accused the Attorney General's Department of deliberately failing to prosecute former President Maithripala Sirisena and former State Intelligence Service Director Nilantha Jayawardena in the criminal case over the 2019 Easter Sunday…
- [PMD and Tamil Leaders Emphasize Different Priorities After Dissanayake Talks](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/pmd-and-tamil-leaders-emphasize-different-priorities-after-dissanayake-talks.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday reaffirmed his government's commitment to introducing a new Constitution and abolishing the Executive Presidency, but said constitutional reform should proceed only after building "a new national consensus," according to a statement…
- [They Found Justice for Easter. Why Can’t They Find It for Mullivaikkal?](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/they-found-justice-for-easter-why-cant-they-find-it-for-mullivaikkal.md) - By Che Ran The Easter Sunday bombings were one of the darkest days in Sri Lankan history. On 21 April 2019, suicide bombers walked into churches filled with families celebrating the resurrection of Christ and into luxury hotels serving breakfast. More than 260 people were killed. Hundreds more were…
- [How the LTTE Hollowed Out Tamil Society Long Before Its Military Defeat](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/how-the-ltte-hollowed-out-tamil-society-long-before-its-military-defeat.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy At a workshop for teenage Tamil girls in Jaffna, a teacher wanted to know who Nelson Mandela was. Several hands went up. Mandela fought for South Africa’s freedom and to end apartheid. The answer was apt. Okay, who was Mahatma Gandhi? Again, several hands went up. Gandhi led t…
- [One Spoke of Karma. The Other Named a Conspiracy.](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/one-spoke-of-karma-the-other-named-a-conspiracy.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Moments before a Colombo court sentenced them to death on Friday for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, Sri Lanka's former police chief and former defence secretary were each invited, as the law requires, to explain why they should not receive the death penalty…
- [Tamil Parties to Meet President, Opposition](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/tamil-parties-to-meet-president-opposition.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka —Representatives of the six Tamil-speaking political parties, who announced last month their decision to work together to advance the interests of Tamil-speaking people, are scheduled to hold separate meetings on Monday (Aug. 3) with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Opposit…
- [Sudan and the Illusion of External Rescue: a mirror for Sri Lanka](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sudan-and-the-illusion-of-external-rescue-a-mirror-for-sri-lanka.md) - Mr. Saifeldin Nemir and Prof Mahesh Nirmalan Mr Saifeldin Nemir is a Sudanese national and the current Chief of UNICEF Field Office, Ethiopia. He was also the former Deputy Country Director for Islamic Relief Worldwide; Professor Mahesh Nirmalan is the Associate Vice President for Responsible Resea…
- [India’s Foreign Secretary to Visit Sri Lanka Amid Growing Tamil Political Coordination](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/indias-foreign-secretary-to-visit-sri-lanka-amid-growing-tamil-political-coordination.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — India's Foreign Secretary, Vikram Misri, is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka next week for an official visit, as Tamil-speaking political parties seek to strengthen coordination ahead of renewed engagement with New Delhi, according to people familiar with the plans. Mr. Misri is…
- [The Easter Bombings: Anatomy of a State Failure](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/the-easter-bombings-anatomy-of-a-state-failure.md) - By Aruliniyan Mahalingam At 8:27 on the morning of April 21, 2019, a foreign intelligence service sent one last message to the head of Sri Lanka’s State Intelligence Service. The bombers would probably move between six and ten that morning, it said, and one of their targets was a Methodist church i…
- [Nineteen Years After Nilakshan's Killing, Justice Remains Elusive](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/nineteen-years-after-nilakshans-killing-justice-remains-elusive.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Nineteen years after Sahathevan Nilakshan, a 22-year-old journalist and University of Jaffna student, was shot dead outside his home during a military curfew, no one has been charged in the case. His killing, former classmates and colleagues say, deprived not only Sri Lankan jou…
- [Vietnam Sees Historic Direct Flights as Gateway to Stronger Sri Lanka Ties](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/vietnam-sees-historic-direct-flights-as-gateway-to-stronger-sri-lanka-ties.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Vietnam and Sri Lanka are poised to reach a historic milestone in their bilateral relations with the launch of the first direct commercial flights between the two countries later this month, Vietnamese Ambassador Trinh Thi Tam said, describing the new air links as a catalyst fo…
- [Former Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Sentenced to Death Over Easter Sunday Bombings](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/former-sri-lankan-defense-secretary-sentenced-to-death-over-easter-sunday-bombings.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando was sentenced to death on Friday after a special three-judge trial court found him guilty of failing to act on intelligence warnings ahead of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, becoming the second senior official to receive t…
- [Former Sri Lankan Police Chief Sentenced to Death Over Easter Sunday Bombings](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/former-sri-lankan-police-chief-sentenced-to-death-over-easter-sunday-bombings.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s former police chief was sentenced to death on Friday for failing to stop the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, after a court found he had sat on a run of intelligence warnings that named the bombers and, at the end, the day they would strike. The three judges of the Colo…
- [U.N. Experts Urge Criminal Probe Into Chemmani Mass Grave](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/u-n-experts-urge-criminal-probe-into-chemmani-mass-grave.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — International accountability experts, senior lawyers, and United Nations officials have called on Sri Lanka to immediately launch a full criminal investigation into the Chemmani mass grave, arguing that the recovery of nearly 500 human skeletons has already established sufficien…
- [How Deep Do China-Sri Lanka Ties Really Go? A New Book Explores](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/how-deep-do-china-sri-lanka-ties-really-go-a-new-book-explores.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy China and Sri Lanka have enjoyed decades of close and warm relations. Many Sri Lankans also credit China with providing extensive military assistance that helped Colombo defeat the Tamil Tigers. But is there a side of this relationship that has been kept under wraps? Yes, says…
- [Tamil Clergy Demand International Inquiry Into Chemmani Grave, Breaking With Their Own Church](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/tamil-clergy-demand-international-inquiry-into-chemmani-grave-breaking-with-their-own-church.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Roman Catholic clergy in Jaffna demanded an international investigation into the Chemmani mass grave this week, pitting the Tamil priesthood of Sri Lanka's north against the leadership of their own Church. Its most powerful figure, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, spent years opposing…
- [Remembering Neelan Tiruchelvam](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/remembering-neelan-tiruchelvam.md) - By Jeevan Thiyagaraja How I Came to ICES Neelan Tiruchelvam — Tamil member of parliament, constitutional lawyer, and founder of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies — was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber on 29 July 1999. These are personal recollections, offered on the anniversary of h…
- [Every Militant a Tiger: How the Meenambakkam Bombing Came to Be Blamed on the LTTE](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/every-militant-a-tiger-how-the-meenambakkam-bombing-came-to-be-blamed-on-the-ltte.md) - By Aruliniyan Mahalingam A NAME FOR EVERY GUN In an earlier article, we examined the story of Panagoda Maheswaran and the Tamil Eelam Army (TEA), the militant group responsible for the bombing at Madras's Meenambakkam Airport on Aug. 2, 1984. Although the attack was carried out by the TEA, it has l…
- [JUSTICE, APPARENTLY, HAS A GUEST LIST](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/justice-apparently-has-a-guest-list.md) - By Che Ran Sri Lanka has discovered prison justice. Wonderful. Only took us forty-three years. Twenty-eight people are dead after the July 2026 violence at Negombo Prison: 20 prisoners and eight prison officials. More than 100 were injured. The government appointed an investigative committee. Polic…
- ["Sri Lanka's Strategic Importance Is Greater Than Ever Amid Middle East Tensions": Japanese Ambassador](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lankas-strategic-importance-is-greater-than-ever-amid-middle-east-tensions-japanese-ambassador.md) - COLOMBO — Citing escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and Sri Lanka's growing importance as a maritime hub in the Indian Ocean, Japan on Tuesday said strengthening the island nation's border health infrastructure had become essential to safeguarding global trade and public health, as…
- [Why the President Needs the August 3 Meeting as Much as Tamil Leaders Do](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/why-the-president-needs-the-august-3-meeting-as-much-as-tamil-leaders-do.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy There is an important reason President Anura Dissanayake must be equally looking forward to a meeting on August 3 with leaders of six Tamil and Muslim parties in Sri Lanka. In the first major initiative since coming together on July 13 to flag issues of common concern, the six…
- [The Mahavamsa Shashi Tharoor Left Out](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-mahavamsa-shashi-tharoor-left-out.md) - By Aruliniyan Mahalingam Shashi Tharoor gave the sort of speech he is known for at the Colombo Literary Festival last week: fluent, warm, faintly flattering to its hosts. Standing in the Arcade at Independence Square, he called Sri Lanka a land “profoundly steeped in rich, mesmerising oral traditio…
- [How a Pilgrim's Dog Led to a Sri Lankan Worker's Prison Sentence in Saudi Arabia](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/how-a-pilgrims-dog-led-to-a-sri-lankan-workers-prison-sentence-in-saudi-arabia.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka —It began as a feel-good story about a stray dog that captivated thousands of Hindu pilgrims across Sri Lanka. It ended with a Sri Lankan migrant worker from the eastern town of Kalmunai being sentenced to five years in a Saudi prison over a single comment on Facebook. The worker,…
- [Buddhist Monks Challenge NPP Government Over Constitution and Archaeological Lands](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/buddhist-monks-challenge-npp-government-over-constitution-and-archaeological-lands.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Colombo on Monday for a conference where speakers voiced concern over possible constitutional reforms, the administration of archaeological lands in Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern provinces, and what they said was growing criticism of t…
- [Senior NPP Insider Says Coalition Never Approved Judges' Retirement Age Plan](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/senior-npp-insider-says-coalition-never-approved-judges-retirement-age-plan.md) - COLOMBO — A senior lawyer who sits on the governing National People's Power's leadership council and executive council has publicly broken with the government over its bid to extend the retirement age of judges, saying neither body ever took such a decision — and that he was told to keep his mouth…
- [1987: The Year Sri Lanka's War Could Have Ended](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/1987-the-year-sri-lankas-war-could-have-ended.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy It was close to midnight on July 28, 1987, when I got a tip I had been waiting for: Velupillai Prabhakaran and Anton Balasingham were in a meeting with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, ahead of his trip to Colombo to sign the India-Sri Lanka Agreement. My source was the indefatiga…
- [Six Tamil-Speaking Parties Seek Meeting With President](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/six-tamil-speaking-parties-seek-meeting-with-president.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A coalition of six Tamil-speaking political parties has formally requested a meeting with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in what could be the first coordinated political initiative since the parties agreed earlier this month to work together on issues affecting Sri Lanka's…
- [‘Our People Were Failed by Both National and International Justice Systems’: Shankari Chandran](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/we-are-still-reluctant-to-confront-our-own-role-in-the-failure-of-the-tamil-national-project-shankari-chandran.md) - By Aruliniyan Mahalingam Shankari Chandran came to fiction the way some people come to prayer: after everything else had failed. For a decade in London she ran the pro bono programmes of one of the world's largest law firms. The work took her into more than thirty countries, into the question of wh…
- [As El Niño Builds, Sri Lanka’s North Faces Heat, Water Stress and the Risk of Floods](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/as-el-nino-builds-sri-lankas-north-faces-heat-water-stress-and-the-risk-of-floods.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Northern Sri Lanka should brace for a long spell of heat, growing strain on its water, and sharp swings from drought to downpour as El Niño gathers strength in the Pacific, a University of Jaffna climate scholar has warned. Prof. Nagamuthu Pratheeparajah, a professor of geograph…
- [Can an MP Skip Court to Attend Parliament?](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/can-an-mp-skip-court-to-attend-parliament.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A heated confrontation in Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Friday over an arrest warrant issued against Jaffna District independent MP Ramanathan Archchuna exposed a broader constitutional question: What happens when a Member of Parliament is required to appear before court on the sam…
- [Sri Lankan Court Allows Key Witness to Retestify in Prageeth Eknaligoda Disappearance Case](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lankan-court-allows-key-witness-to-retestify-in-prageeth-eknaligoda-disappearance-case.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A three-judge bench of the Colombo High Court ruled on Friday that a witness who has twice changed his account in the case of the abducted journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda may be recalled to testify again, after he told the court that the evidence he gave four years ago had been…
- [Shashi Tharoor Urges India and Sri Lanka to Deepen Ties Through Literature](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/shashi-tharoor-urges-india-and-sri-lanka-to-deepen-ties-through-literature.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Literature can build bridges where politics sometimes cannot, Indian parliamentarian and author Shashi Tharoor said on Friday as he inaugurated the first Colombo Literary Festival, urging India and Sri Lanka to strengthen their ties through books, translation, and cultural exch…
- [‘Farewell, Ceylon’: China’s Ambassador Reflects on Six Years in Sri Lanka](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/farewell-ceylon-chinas-ambassador-reflects-on-six-years-in-sri-lanka.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — China’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, used a farewell message marking the end of his six-year posting to praise deepening political trust, expanding economic cooperation, and closer cultural ties between the two countries, while urging continued collaboration under Beij…
- [‘They Set Fire to the Hearts of the People’: Deputy Minister Blames Ranil, UNP for Jaffna Library Burning](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/they-set-fire-to-the-hearts-of-the-people-deputy-minister-blames-ranil-unp-for-jaffna-library-burning.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan deputy minister has accused former President Ranil Wickremesinghe and other senior figures associated with the United National Party of bearing responsibility for the political climate surrounding the 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library. Eranga Gunasekara, th…
- [Speaker Calls Archchuna a ‘Fool’; Government Leader Says He Is ‘Psychologically Affected’](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/speaker-calls-archchuna-a-fool-government-leader-says-he-is-psychologically-affected.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The leader of Sri Lanka’s Parliament told the chamber on Thursday that a controversial independent lawmaker from Jaffna was “psychologically affected” and that lawmakers were patiently waiting for him to seek treatment and recover, an unusually personal attack that came during…
- [Black July Was Not an Accident](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/black-july-was-not-an-accident.md) - By Jeevan Thiyagaraja Black July was not a weather event. It means something more disquieting: a set of interlocking failures — constitutional, political, institutional, moral — had been accumulating since independence, so that by the time the Thinnavely ambush of 23 July supplied the occasion, the…
- [Two Jaffna Private Hospitals Fined Rs. 3.1 Million in Consumer Affairs Crackdown](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/two-jaffna-private-hospitals-fined-rs-3-1-million-in-consumer-affairs-crackdown.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A private hospital in Jaffna has been fined 3 million Sri Lankan rupees after pleading guilty to charging patients more than the government-set maximum price for a common blood test, the largest penalty imposed in a nationwide enforcement drive against private hospitals and medi…
- [The Audacious and Troubled Life of Panagoda Maheswaran](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-audacious-and-troubled-life-of-panagoda-maheswaran.md) - By: Aruliniyan Mahalingam This profile first appeared in the Jaffna Monitor at the time of Maheswaran’s death. It is republished, lightly revised, to mark the second anniversary of his passing. Thambapillai Maheswaran, one of the earliest figures in the armed Tamil struggle and the founder of the T…
- [At Chemmani Mass Grave, Families Tell European Diplomats: ‘Our Lives Are in Your Hands’](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/at-chemmani-mass-grave-families-tell-european-diplomats-our-lives-are-in-your-hands.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A high-level delegation of European diplomats visited the Chemmani mass grave excavation in Jaffna on Wednesday, meeting relatives of the forcibly disappeared and telling them that a petition they submitted would be treated as more than a symbolic appeal as the families renewed…
- [Sri Lanka Says It Has No ‘Political Prisoners,’ Despite President’s Pledge to Free Them](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lanka-says-it-has-no-political-prisoners-despite-presidents-pledge-to-free-them.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s justice minister told Parliament this week that the country holds no prisoners officially classified as “political prisoners,” a legalistic distinction that has reopened one of the most sensitive disputes of the postwar era and raised questions about the government’…
- [ITAK Accuses Government Authorities of Defying Court Order at Kanniya](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/itak-accuses-government-authorities-of-defying-court-order-at-kanniya.md) - TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s main Tamil political party has accused government authorities of beginning religious construction at the disputed Kanniya site in the eastern district of Trincomalee despite a court order that it says prohibits such work. Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, the parliamenta…
- [Seized Indian Trawlers Choke Myliddy Harbour, ITAK Lawmaker Says](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/seized-indian-trawlers-choke-myliddy-harbour-itak-lawmaker-says.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Thuraireasa Ravikaran, a member of Parliament for the Vanni district from the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, or ITAK, has urged the government to remove Indian trawlers and other vessels that have long crowded Myliddy Fisheries Harbour, saying they are preventing local fishing fam…
- [Tamil Leader Urges Scientific Inquiry Into Chemmani Mass Grave as European Envoys Visit](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/tamil-leader-urges-scientific-inquiry-into-chemmani-mass-grave-as-european-envoys-visit.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A senior Tamil political leader has urged European diplomats to press for a separate scientific investigation into the Chemmani mass grave, arguing that establishing when the victims were buried could help determine who was in authority at the time and ultimately identify those…
- [United but Vulnerable: JVP Faces an Uncertain Electoral Future](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/united-but-vulnerable-jvp-faces-an-uncertain-electoral-future.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy Despite ideological U-turns since taking power in 2024, Sri Lanka’s dominant ruling Marxist party remains a united political force, although it is most likely to lose if fresh elections were to take place now, experts and insiders say. Most people spoken to insist that Preside…
- [Can Sri Lanka’s Tamil and Muslim Parties Stand Together?](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/can-sri-lankas-tamil-and-muslim-parties-stand-together.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy Six political parties representing Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka have come together for the first time in years to pressure the government on issues concerning the minorities ahead of Provincial Council elections expected next year. But even as commoners voice scepticism abo…
- [The Cardinal Who Talks Like a Politician](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-cardinal-who-talks-like-a-politician.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy “He is a cardinal, isn’t he? Why does he always talk like a politician?” No one could have put it better when describing Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, known simply as Malcolm Ranjith. And those words came from a respected member of Colombo’s Catholic communi…
- [Sumanthiran Shown the Gate? Alumni Protest Roils Victoria College Anniversary](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sumanthiran-shown-the-gate-alumni-protest-roils-victoria-college-anniversary.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A decision to invite M.A. Sumanthiran, the acting general secretary of the ITAK and a politician widely blamed by his critics for the decline of both Tamil politics and the ITAK’s standing in Jaffna, to the 150th anniversary celebrations of Victoria College in Sulipuram drew pro…
- [China ‘Fully Agrees’ With Sri Lanka Government’s Policies, Departing Ambassador Says](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/china-fully-agrees-with-sri-lanka-governments-policies-departing-ambassador-says.md) - By: Asela Kuruluwansha KANDY, Sri Lanka — China’s outgoing ambassador to Sri Lanka said Beijing was in full agreement with the policies of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government and would continue supporting the country’s development, as he prepared to leave the island after a six-year dip…
- [In Jaffna, Tamil Parties Back a Six-Party Bloc They Cannot Build Between Themselves](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/in-jaffna-tamil-parties-back-a-six-party-bloc-they-cannot-build-between-themselves.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Leaders of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) and the Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) met in Jaffna on Saturday to discuss a newly formed six-party grouping of Sri Lanka's Tamil-speaking parties — even as the two northern formations remain unable to forge an allian…
- [Land, the PTA and a Postponed Vote: Europe's Ambassadors on the North's Unfinished Business](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/land-the-pta-and-a-postponed-vote-europes-ambassadors-on-the-norths-unfinished-business.md) - By: Aruliniyan Mahalingam When the French Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Rémi Lambert, and the German Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dr. Felix Neumann, travelled together to Jaffna, the visit was more than a diplomatic stop in the island’s north. Over a series of meetings with political leaders, civil society…
- [President Sought Answers After Kilinochchi Meeting Descended Into Chaos](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/president-sought-answers-after-kilinochchi-meeting-descended-into-chaos.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — President Anura Kumara Dissanayake telephoned Fisheries Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar on Friday morning to ask what had caused the turmoil that brought a district coordinating committee meeting in Kilinochchi to an abrupt end a day earlier, the minister said, as the fallout f…
- [N.P.P. Lawmaker Faults Northern Party Chief After Kilinochchi Meeting Collapses](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/n-p-p-lawmaker-faults-northern-party-chief-after-kilinochchi-meeting-collapses.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A governing-party lawmaker has publicly criticized a cabinet minister from his own coalition over the collapse of a district coordinating committee meeting in Kilinochchi, a rare public break in the National People’s Power that has drawn attention to tensions inside the governin…
- [The Lunch That Was Never Opened](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-lunch-that-was-never-opened.md) - MARUTHAMUNAI, Sri Lanka — The motorcycle was still largely intact after the accident. Hanging from its handlebar was a packet of lunch that Thyagaraja Jayakrishna’s wife had prepared for him that morning. He had left their home in Pandiruppu as he did on other working days, heading to his job at th…
- [Chaos Follows Archchuna to Kilinochchi as Officials Walk Out — Critics Question Government’s Role](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/chaos-follows-archchuna-to-kilinochchi-as-officials-walk-out-critics-question-governments-role.md) - KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka — A district coordinating committee meeting in Kilinochchi ended abruptly on Thursday after a series of heated confrontations involving lawmaker Ramanathan Archchuna, prompting elected officials and senior government administrators to walk out before police intervened. The me…
- [JVP Minister Reads New Tamil-Muslim Platform as a Verdict on Sajith Premadasa’s Decline](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/jvp-minister-reads-new-tamil-muslim-platform-as-a-verdict-on-sajith-premadasas-decline.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A senior government minister has welcomed a new political platform uniting six parties that represent Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking communities, casting it not as a minority initiative but as a judgment on the opposition leader, Sajith Premadasa. The parties — representing Sri Lan…
- [Fratricide in Jaffna: The Night the LTTE Massacred Its Fellow Tamils](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/fratricide-in-jaffna-the-night-the-ltte-massacred-its-fellow-tamils.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy Kandiah Gnanathas can never forget the moment when he came face to face with death: an American-made M-16 grenade launcher. Only a moment earlier, Kandiah, whose nom de guerre was Sivam, had wondered about the loud boom he had heard. Had some untoward incident occurred outside…
- [Inpam and Selvam: Two Killings That Still Haunt the Birth of the PTA](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/inpam-and-selvam-two-killings-that-still-haunt-the-birth-of-the-pta.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — In July 1979, as the government armed itself with sweeping new powers to confront a growing Tamil militancy in the north, two men disappeared into the custody of the security forces. Their bodies were later found near the Pannai causeway, the narrow stretch that links the island…
- [The Real Battle for Credibility](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-real-battle-for-credibility.md) - This month, I was invited to speak at the second Sri Lanka–India Media Friendship Association (SLIMFA) Media Fest in Colombo, on the theme “Trust, Truth and the Battle for Credibility.” Illness prevented me from attending. I have chosen instead to publish the thoughts I had prepared as this month’s…
- [Rights Group Accuses Sri Lanka of Obstructing Chemmani Mass Grave Investigation](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/rights-group-accuses-sri-lanka-of-obstructing-chemmani-mass-grave-investigation.md) - For three decades, the state’s answer to the families of Jaffna’s disappeared has been that it does not know. A report released this week argues that it has always known — and has spent thirty years making sure that nothing could be done about it. The report, published by the International Truth an…
- [Should Sanctions Extend to a General's Memoir?](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/should-sanctions-extend-to-a-generals-memoir.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy Realising that the war for Tamil Eelam would need a constant supply of weapons, Velupillai Prabhakaran set up in 1985 Kadal Pura, a modest sea wing in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Over the years, it grew into the formidable Sea Tigers, which threatened to overw…
- [The Missing Half of Sri Lanka's Post-War Recovery](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-missing-half-of-sri-lankas-post-war-recovery.md) - By Jeevan Thiagarajah Seventeen years after Sri Lanka's civil war ended, the country has run one of the world's more closely studied reintegration experiments — and left another almost entirely undone. On one side, 12,196 former LTTE combatants passed through a state-run rehabilitation programme th…
- [ITAK Challenges Government to Prove Archaeology Department Is Free of Ethnic Bias](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/itak-challenges-government-to-prove-archaeology-department-is-free-of-ethnic-bias.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's largest Tamil party has urged the government to resolve a series of long-running heritage disputes in the country's Northern and Eastern Provinces and to demonstrate that the state's archaeology authority operates without ethnic or religious bias. The Ilankai Tamil…
- [One library that began a story](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/one-library-that-began-a-story.md) - By: Shankari Chandran Editor's Note: As Australian High Commissioner Matthew Duckworth presents the complete collection of Shankari Chandran's novels to the Jaffna Public Library today, Jaffna Monitor republishes this essay by the Miles Franklin Award-winning Sri Lankan Tamil author, who reflects o…
- [Video of Military-Harvested Vegetables Fuels Anger Over Jaffna Land Occupation](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/video-of-military-harvested-vegetables-fuels-anger-over-jaffna-land-occupation.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A video appearing to show Sri Lankan soldiers delivering vegetables cultivated on military-controlled private land in Jaffna to a wholesale collection center supplying a supermarket has gone viral on social media, rekindling longstanding resentment among displaced residents of V…
- [Amirthalingam Knew Death Was Coming. He Wasn't Afraid.](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/amirthalingam-knew-death-was-coming-he-wasnt-afraid.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy About a month before his assassination, Appapillai Amirthalingam was told by his elder son in London about a strong rumour in the UK that he had been killed. “This is what some people expect to happen,” the Tamil political stalwart responded. “If that happens, I wouldn’t mind.…
- [Amirthalingam’s Son Says the Tigers Destroyed the Cause They Claimed to Defend](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/amirthalingams-son-says-the-tigers-destroyed-the-cause-they-claimed-to-defend.md) - Thirty-seven years to the day after gunmen from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam assassinated the Tamil leader Appapillai Amirthalingam, his son has accused the group of destroying not only his father but also the political cause it claimed to represent. In a Facebook post marking the anniversa…
- [Ex-Army Major's Prison Account Renews Focus on Sri Lanka's Overcrowded Jails After Deadly Riot](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/ex-army-majors-prison-account-renews-focus-on-sri-lankas-overcrowded-jails-after-deadly-riot.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A retired army major and attorney who spent more than three years inside Sri Lanka's largest prison has offered a rare firsthand account of conditions in the country's overcrowded prison system, days after the deadliest prison riot in more than a decade left 28 people dead and…
- [Six Tamil-Speaking Parties Launch Common Platform on Constitution, Elections, and Land Rights](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/six-tamil-speaking-parties-launch-common-platform-on-constitution-elections-and-land-rights.md) - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Six political parties representing Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking communities announced on Monday that they had agreed to establish a common platform to coordinate on issues of shared concern, including constitutional reform, long-delayed provincial council elections, and land disp…
- [Thousands Gather for Japanese Bon Odori Festival in Sri Lanka](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/thousands-gather-for-japanese-bon-odori-festival-in-sri-lanka.md) - MAHARAGAMA, Sri Lanka — Thousands of people attended the Japanese Bon Odori Festival 2026 in Maharagama on Saturday, celebrating Japanese culture through traditional dance, music, food, and cultural exhibitions. The event, held at the National Youth Services Council (NYSC), was attended by Sri Lank…
- [SPECTRE OF THE "DEEP STATE": PLANNED CAPTURE OF THE JUDICIARY BY THE EXECUTIVE](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/spectre-of-the-deep-state-planned-capture-of-the-judiciary-by-the-executive.md) - By: Professor G. L. Peiris D. Phil. (Oxford), Ph. D. (Sri Lanka); Former Minister of Justice, Constitutional Affairs and National Integration; Quondam Visiting Fellow of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London; Former Vice-Chancellor and Emeritus Professor of Law of the University of Colom…
- [Sri Lanka Bans Forced-Labour Imports, but Enforcement Remains Unclear](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lanka-bans-forced-labour-imports-but-enforcement-remains-unclear.md) - COLOMBO — Sri Lanka has prohibited the import of any goods produced wholly or partly through forced labour, under an order that took effect on July 10 as the government moves to avert a proposed United States tariff of 12.5 percent that would leave its exporters at a disadvantage to regional compet…
- [Sri Lanka Knows How to Fight Dengue. So Why Is the Government Still Losing?](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lanka-knows-how-to-fight-dengue-so-why-is-the-government-still-losing.md) - COLOMBO / JAFFNA — On 6 July, the University of Moratuwa, one of the country's foremost engineering schools, sent its students home and moved teaching online for two weeks, after a cluster of more than fifty dengue infections spread through a campus where examinations were still underway. Several o…
- [Ketheshwaran Loganathan: The Tamil Nationalist the LTTE Could Not Tolerate](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/ketheshwaran-loganathan-the-tamil-nationalist-the-ltte-could-not-tolerate.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy Every night before sleeping, he devoured pages from the Bhagavad Gita authored by Swami Chinmayananda. It was the last thing Ketheshwaran Loganathan read before he was shot dead by a Tamil Tiger on the morning of August 12, 2006. August 2026 would mark the 20th anniversary of…
- [Police Assure Tamil Journalist They Will No Longer Demand Confidential Sources](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/police-assure-tamil-journalist-they-will-no-longer-demand-confidential-sources.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan police have assured a Tamil journalist that officers will no longer ask reporters to disclose their confidential sources after the country's largest journalists' union raised the issue with the Inspector General of Police, the journalist said. The assurance was given…
- [Prime Minister Says Sri Lanka to Review 65,000 Acres in Trincomalee](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/prime-minister-says-sri-lanka-to-review-65-000-acres-in-trincomalee.md) - COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's government is reviewing tens of thousands of acres of protected land in the eastern district of Trincomalee with the aim of returning land, or providing alternative plots, to people who lived there before 1985, Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya told Parliament on Wednesday. Re…
- [Nishan Canagarajah, Jaffna-Born Scholar, Is Knighted at Windsor Castle](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/nishan-canagarajah-jaffna-born-scholar-is-knighted-at-windsor-castle.md) - More than four decades after he left a war-shadowed Jaffna on a scholarship, Professor Nishan Canagarajah knelt before King Charles III at Windsor Castle on Tuesday and rose a knight. During the investiture ceremony in Berkshire, the British monarch touched the shoulders of the kneeling academic wi…
- ["I Can't Sit With This Guy": Gajendrakumar Complains to Speaker About Archchuna](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/i-cant-sit-with-this-guy-gajendrakumar-complains-to-speaker-about-archchuna.md) - COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's Parliament has weathered no-confidence motions, a sovereign default, and, on one notorious day in 2018, chairs and chili powder flung across the chamber floor. This week, the latest parliamentary battle was over who should sit next to whom. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, leader of…
- [Tamil Lawmaker Demands Timeline for Return of Military-Held Land](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/tamil-lawmaker-demands-timeline-for-return-of-military-held-land.md) - Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, the parliamentary group leader of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), called on Sri Lanka's government to disclose to Parliament how much civilian land remains under military control in the country's north and east, saying the administration had been too slow to fulfill…
- [Archchuna Joins Opposition in Black-Armband Protest Over Negombo Prison Deaths](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/archchuna-joins-opposition-in-black-armband-protest-over-negombo-prison-deaths.md) - COLOMBO — Independent Jaffna District lawmaker Archchuna Ramanathan wore a black armband in Parliament on Wednesday in protest over the deadly violence at Negombo Prison, joining members of the opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya in demanding that the government accept responsibility for the deaths.…
- [Families of the Disappeared to Convene in Jaffna, Renewing Calls for International Justice](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/families-of-the-disappeared-to-convene-in-jaffna-renewing-calls-for-international-justice.md) - JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Families of Sri Lankan Tamils who vanished during decades of political violence said they would convene an international conference in Jaffna on Aug. 30, renewing their demand for international accountability and rejecting the government's efforts to address the issue through do…
- [Minister Concedes Environmental Lapses in Mining as ITAK Leader Presses for Permit Cancellations](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/minister-concedes-environmental-lapses-in-mining-as-itak-leader-presses-for-permit-cancellations.md) - COLOMBO — The minister responsible for Sri Lanka’s mining sector conceded in Parliament that mineral-extraction projects had gone ahead without any environmental assessment, that companies had profited by trading and transferring their licenses, and that the country had no plan to add value to the…
- [Tamil Lawmaker Accuses Sri Lankan Governments of Double Standards Over Prison Killings](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/tamil-lawmaker-accuses-sri-lankan-governments-of-double-standards-over-prison-killings.md) - COLOMBO — A Tamil opposition lawmaker on Tuesday accused successive Sri Lankan governments of applying double standards to prison violence, saying that past massacres of Tamil political prisoners had never been fully investigated, while lawmakers now demanded accountability for the recent killings…
- [Who Speaks for Tamil Catholics? Jaffna's New Bishop Revives an Old Debate](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/who-speaks-for-tamil-catholics-jaffnas-new-bishop-revives-an-old-debate.md) - JAFFNA — The Diocese of Jaffna has a new bishop, and many within its clergy are questioning how he came to lead it. On June 29, Pope Leo XIV appointed Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam, until then the Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo and Apostolic Administrator of Batticaloa, as the next Bishop of Jaffna. Alm…
- [Sri Lanka Pushes House Arrest and Electronic Monitoring After Deadly Prison Riot](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lanka-pushes-house-arrest-and-electronic-monitoring-after-deadly-prison-riot.md) - COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's government will fast-track legislation to allow courts to place some suspects under house arrest with electronic monitoring instead of remanding them in overcrowded prisons, Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara said on Tuesday, presenting the proposal as part of a broader eff…
- [The Fighters the Tamil Diaspora Left Behind](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/the-fighters-the-tamil-diaspora-left-behind.md) - By M.R. Narayan Swamy Ex-Tamil Tiger N could not restrain himself when he saw a group of diaspora Tamils visit a rehabilitation centre to see for themselves how former combatants who had fought the Sri Lankan military were being treated by the government. The visitors came with Selvarasa Pathmanath…
- [Gotabaya Rajapaksa Accused of Misleading Court as Arrest Battle Intensifies](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/gotabaya-rajapaksa-accused-of-misleading-court-as-arrest-battle-intensifies.md) - By Jaffna Monitor's Court Correspondent COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's Attorney General asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to throw out a petition by former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa seeking to block his arrest in the reopened investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, contending that he had mi…
- [Activists Accuse Sri Lankan Government of Concealing Scale of Deadly Prison Violence](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/activists-accuse-sri-lankan-government-of-concealing-scale-of-deadly-prison-violence.md) - COLOMBO — Prisoners' rights advocates escalated pressure on Sri Lanka's government on Monday, accusing it of concealing the scale of deadly violence at Negombo Prison and of neglecting the overcrowding, staff shortages, and inadequate medical care that they said had pushed the country's prison syst…

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