Over the last 15 years, Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe has held power as Prime Minister and President for six years. During his tenure, the Nava(L)kuzhi genocidal Sinhala settlement was initiated. The settl...

Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a crowded church at Vavunikulam on 15.08.1997, killed at 14 Eelamatamils, and injuring 15 others. 10 civilians were seriously injured in another attack at Puthuvilanku...

Students, parents, and teachers have suffered immensely as a result of attacks on education in Tamileelam. Education has become one of the greatest casualties of the genocidal war, crushing the hopes ...

26. S.Sivaruban (AP19) was 17 and was studying at school when he was taken in. He is one of five children of three boys and two girls. His mother Thangaludchumi says, “My eldest son died of asthma in ...

On 11th, the army fired shells and took away 25 persons, including the postmaster and a technical assistant. Some buildings were burnt. Many people fled into the Eravur North. As the army began moving...

Mailanthanai is an isolated village in Mattakalappu (Batticaloa), where paddy cultivators and cattle farmers managed to make a meagre living, surviving at the mercy of the elements. They live in ramsh...

Between 23.08.1990 and 25.09.1990, the Sri Lankan military detained hundreds of young Eelamtamil men from the neighbouring villages of Mandaitivu, Allaipiddy, and Mankumban (M-A-M). At least seventy o...

The Claymore is a “directional mine,” a curved plastic pack of Composition C-3 explosive (later C-4) into which numerous steel cubes were embedded. When detonated, the mine would blast out its fragmen...

On 12.10.2003, Human remains were found in a pit near the Periyathambiran Temple in Thiraikeni, 57km south of Mattkalappu (Batticaloa) town in the Mattakalappu-Pottuvil road when Thiraikeni residents ...

The IPKF, which arrived in the northeast province in 1987 following the signing of Indo-Sri Lanka peace agreement in a bid to resolve the ethnic conflict with a political solution, launched a military...