13. Vipulananthar (MT22) was 30 and was working as a cashier in a shop in Jaffna. His sister Rathidevi says, “There were just the two of us in the fam...

Mailanthanai is an isolated village in Mattakalappu (Batticaloa), where paddy cultivators and cattle farmers managed to make a meagre living, survivin...

Between 23.08.1990 and 25.09.1990, the Sri Lankan military detained hundreds of young Eelamtamil men from the neighbouring villages of Mandaitivu, All...

Details of Eelamtamils, who were killed by the Sri Lankan state in the month of August – 2007 Details of Eelamtamils, who were enforced disappea...

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. Wh...

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 Mat...

On 04.08.2006, 17 Eelamtamil activists who were working for the French NGO “Action Contre La Faim” (ACF), brutally killed by the Sri Lankan government...

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 confl...

Killing of a young journalist shakes Yalppanam. Sahathevan Nilakshan, 22, a young media student at Yalppanam University Media Research and Training Ce...

Poththuvil is the Eastern end of Tamileelam which is located in Ampal Éri (Amparai) district. Agriculture is generally seen as the basic economic rout...