February 2026

On a humid morning inside the premises of Jaffna Hindu College, a group of middle-aged men stood quietly as a plaque was unveiled on a newly constructed study hall for hostel students. They were not donors in the conventional sense. They were former classmates — members of the school’s 2001 Advanced Level batch — returning more than a quarter century later to honour a friend whose life was cut short when he was killed by the military during the civil war. The facility, completed at a cost of 1

The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), long regarded as the principal vehicle of democratic Tamil politics in Sri Lanka, has issued a verbal directive barring members from publicly criticising internal party decisions — a move that has raised serious concerns about the party’s commitment to democratic norms. Jaffna Monitor has learned, through multiple independent sources within the party hierarchy, that senior figures recently communicated through internal channels that disciplinary proceedin