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...

Motor shells were fired from Thampalakamam Army Camp on 01.07.1990. Air force bombers and Avro planes dropped the bombs. About 5000 people belonging to 1600 families took shelter in Thampalakamam Maha...

The 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom is a bloody expressions of the genocidal process which started well before the British colonialists physically left the island. This 1958 genocide, also known as the 1958 an...

Obliterating the Tamil king’s fort ruins by Genocidal Sri Lanka’s archaeological department. Billboards stating that the part of the ancient Nedunthivu fort is the ruins of a Buddhist pillar have spru...

Former Sri Lankan navy chief Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda was part of a case that cast a spotlight on extrajudicial killings during Sri Lanka’s genocidal war.The killing of the 11 tamil youths (2009) ...