July 2026

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 sufficient grounds for a criminal inquiry and that excavation alone cannot deliver justice. Speaking during a special online discussion in Geneva organized by the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP)

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 international scrutiny of alleged wartime atrocities against Tamils — even as he now demands precisely such scrutiny for the mostly Catholic victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. The demand came

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 long been attributed to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This article examines how responsibility for the Meenambakkam bombing came to be associated with the LTTE, and why that narrative