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...

Killing of a young journalist shakes Yalppanam. Sahathevan Nilakshan, 22, a young media student at Yalppanam University Media Research and Training Center and a part time journalist was shot dead ...

Poththuvil is the Eastern end of Tamileelam which is located in Ampal Éri (Amparai) district. Agriculture is generally seen as the basic economic route of Poththuvil. In addition, the Village´se inter...

In speeches from the dock, the two men announced that they would donate their eyes in the hope that they would be grafted on to Eelam Tamils who would see the birth of Tamileelam, the independent stat...

Siththandy (Cittānti) village is situated 8 Kms north of the Mattakalappu (Batticaloa) town. The village has an ancient and famous Saivaite Koyil (Temple). Worship at Siththandi Murukan Koyil (Temple)...

Pullumalai in Mattakalappu is a region immersed in natural beauty where Eelamtamil people have lived for hundreds of years. Now, it lies barren and lifeless. The remains of the destroyed local school,...

Massacres on Eelamtamils and forced evacuation of Tamil villages commenced from 1948.  Human rights organizations   investigated that massacre and  rejected the explanation given b...

Five masked men, heavily armed came and forcefully pulled out the girl from the house and violently raped her and killed her. The post mortem report submitted by Dr Emmanuel Pieries, District Medical ...

Veeramunai, being situated on the boundary of Tamileelam, which occupied by the STF and the army was unfortunate in that both forces came and searched and took people away from the refugee camp. Somet...