“There is no hostile military presence [of the Tigers] in this area. These are innocent civilians who have been living here since 1995. These are people who were driven from Navanthurai in Jaffn...

On 05.01.2000, Kumar Ponnambalam was planning to go out with his son Gajen to inspect a Benz car which he intended buying and adding to his fleet of 19 cars of that make. After hearing about the explo...

Following account is based on the statement given to us by a family member of one of the victims and the descriptions of the attack given by several other residents who faced the Sri Lankan Navy ...

The massacre occurred on 19 December 2000, when nine Eelamtamils including a three year old child in the Yaalppanam district disappeared from their homes in Mirisuvil in the Thenmaradchy area. The nin...

An human rights activist in a leftwing political group said that he with others from the group had gone to Kent and Dollar Farms just after the November 1984. The survivors had told them that the sett...

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Asian Human Rights Commission of the killing of ten supporters of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), in Sri Lanka’s Katugastota distri...

Reverend George Jeyarajasingham was an Eelamtamil and was born in the village of Komari in the eastern part of Tamileelam. He belonged to the Mannar District Methodist Church. He was in charge of a la...

The Chettikulam massacre was a massacre of  Eelamtamils who were living in the village of Chettikulam, located on the border of the Vavuniya and Mannar districts. It was among the first of the series ...

Heavy and indiscriminate shelling and bombing by the srilankan army in Vanni caused 18 deaths in December. Among those killed were four children, two of them were infants. There were 91 injuries due t...

Heavy floods due to monsoon rain caused extensive damages and created more IDPs in Vanni during November. The damages caused by the floods as estimated by the District Secretariats are summarized belo...