Yaalppanam (Jaffna) District Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian, K. Sivanesan, was killed in a Claymore attack carried out by the Sri Lanka Army Deep Penetration Unit on A-9 road, 30 minutes afte...

The Eelam Tamils are being expelled from their own land through the Mahaweli scheme, as part of the Genocidal Act aimed at conducting Sinhala settlements. The Mahaweli Development Project, initiated i...

The seven TRO staff were travelling from Mattakalappu to the TRO Headquarters in Kilinochchi for training on 29 and 30 January, 2006 when they were forced to stopped, in full view of a Sri Lanka Army ...

“We Tamils, displaced and all over the world, loudly raised our problems and asked for help before [the] international community in your own language for three decades. But nothing happened R...

February 4th, is Sri Lanka’s Independence Day. On this day in 1957, Tamileelam boycotted Sri Lanka’s Independence Day in protest of the Sinhala Only Act. Thirumalai Nadarajan, a 22-year-old, was shot ...

On 28 January 1987, the Srilankan state launched a major military operation, at Kokkatticholai near the eastern coastal town of Batticaloa. An estimated 2000 commandos of the Special Task Force suppor...

The 4th International World Tamil Research Conference was held in Yaalppanam from 4 to 10 January 1974. The Sirimavo Bandaranaike local government was actively involved in disrupting the conference. I...

My name is Dr. Kasipillai Manoharan. My beloved son Ragihar was murdered by Sri Lankan forces on January 2, 2006. Since that terrible day, I have campaigned for the truth about what happened. The last...

55 Tamils were massacred by the Sri Lankan army in Thirukonamalai – Nilaveli area. Two women were raped. On 12.07.1990 the Sri Lanka Army and the Sinhalese rural Guards jointly arrested and shot...

The pain of many survivors and the families of those killed in the bombing of St. Peter’s Church in Navaly, Yaalppaanam on 09.07.1995 remains deep. Around 150 people were killed and more than 40...