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LankaFiles

@lankafiles

2 years

දෙමළ ජනතාව සතු ඉඩම් හෙක්ටෙයාර් 250ක් බලෙන් ඇල්ලීමේ වෑයමකට එරෙහිව මුලතිව් දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වට්ටුවාක්කල් වාසීන් දක්වන විරෝධය වාර්තාකිරීම වළක්වා ලීමට කළ අඩන්තේට්ටමට නොසැලී මුහුණ දුන් දෙමළ මාධ්‍යවේදී කනපතිපිල්ලේ කුමනන් හමුවේ නාවික හමුදා නිලධාරීන් කණ්ඩායමකට පසුබසින්නට සිදුවූ අයුරු.

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2 years

#Tamils held a solemn mass in remembrance of 147 people including children massacred 27 years ago on 9 July 1995, when #SriLanka Air Force fighter jets dropped 13 bombs on war displaced seeking refuge at the St Peter's Church and Sri Kathirgama Murugan Temple, #Navali , #Jaffna .

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2 years

"The LTTE had control over #Jaffna for 15 -20 years. But, the Naga Vihara did not come to any harm. We are not against Sinhalese, we are not against Buddhists. We respect Sinhala people and Buddhism. But we will not tolerate Sinhalisation and Buddhistisation at all." @skajendren

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3 years

21 year old #Tamil youth Chandran Vithushan found dead today morning in detention was beaten to death by Police intelligence officials, says mother. He was arrested on Wednesday night at Iruthayapuram-Batticaloa. District Magistrate Karuppiah Selvarani orders inquest. #lka

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2 years

#Tamils who returned following #SriLanka president @RW_UNP 's announcement that 108 acres in #Jaffna have been released, find that their land is still under occupation. "They are trying to hoodwink the international community that the lands in Valikammam North have been released."

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2 years

#SriLanka immigration officials to block the exit of ruling party politicians from the country Pix @Nawfan1234 #SriLankaProtests

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10 months

Mullaitivu district honours 71-year-old Akila Thirunayaki Sriseyananthapavan who made Vanni proud by winning gold in both the 1500 and 5000 meter events, as well as a bronze medal in the 800 meter race at the 22nd National Masters & Seniors Championships held in the Philippines.

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2 years

Journalist covering protest to sack #SriLanka president @GotabayaR assaulted by military & civil clad men and arrested by police. "They ganged up and beat me up when I had fallen on the ground" Sumedha Sanjeewa of @tvderana At least 7 journalists assaulted reports @JDSLanka

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10 months

#SriLanka “Carrying out a peaceful protest with the help of the police is a crime. But a monk who threatens to cut Tamils into pieces & has been violent, not only to the police but to government officials, to the general public to the Tamil people, nothing happens” @GGPonnambalam

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2 years

Back to the battlefield! Soon after his leaving the #Colombo remand prison where he was held for taking part in an anti-government protest, Joseph Stalin joins Teachers and Principals to protest government crackdown on activists. "We cannot be stopped by putting us in jail."

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3 years

"Are they going to tell us that he died from Corona?" #Tamil mother Thevani Suthakaran continuing the 12 years-long search for her son handed over to #SriLanka 's military asks in #Sinhala . "Why doesn't the government ask from the commander where he is?" #Mullivaikkal

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1 year

#SriLanka police rough up activists in #Colombo marking 40 years since #BlackJuly when a group of #Sinhala extremists disrupted their roadside demonstration by vehemently disputing the reference to 'slaughter of #Tamils '. The group charged that everyone killed was a terrorist.

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2 years

#jaffnapride march held to raise awareness over #LGBTIQA issues and condemn discrimination against the transgender community. #SriLanka #pridemonth2022

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2 years

As the #Koppai cemetery for the war dead has been bulldozed and the 51st division of the #SriLanka military had established a camp, the Hero's Day event was held on a private land in front of the army camp. Tearful #Tamils ignited torches, laid flowers and paid their respects.

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1 year

#Tamil prisoner Selliah Satheeskumar walks free after 15 years following #SriLanka presidential pardon. "Every human rights organization should join hands across party, race and religious divides for the release of all political prisoners. That paves the way for reconciliation."

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4 months

In #SriLanka 's northern city of #Jaffna , the public offering of #Mullivaikal Kanji near the bus terminal, to the memory of massacred #Tamils in the last days of the war, was organised by members of the Association of Relatives for the Enforced Disappearances (ARED).

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2 years

#SriLanka navy caught on camera at the #Jaffna , Ponnalai junction check point causing inconvenience to people during stop and search operations. #Tamils in the area allege that the navy is behaving in an intimidating manner.

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4 years

On the final day of the Peace march, many relatives of the missing persons joined in at Vavuniya - 06.02.2021 #P2P #lka #SriLanka

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4 months

This is #Mullivaikkal in the north eastern coast of #SriLanka . This is the sandy soil that tens of thousands lost their lives 15 years ago. This is the stretch of land where #Tamils will congregate today to remind the world that justice should not be a faraway shore.

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1 year

BREAKING: Another suspected mass grave found when workers find human remains and clothes while digging to lay pipes for water supply to central Kokkuthuduwai in war torn #Mullaitivu district, days after 5 organisations released a report identifying 20 grave sites in #SriLanka

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1 year

"At least Sarath Weerasekara is a war criminal, we can expect him to say rubbish. Suren Raghavan claims to be an intellectual and a person with a doctorate. To equate Federalism with secession shows his intellectual bankruptcy" @GGPonnambalam challenges govt on #Tamil aspirations

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3 years

#SriLanka police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) directed to probe misuse of @GotabayaR 's presidential campaign anthem වැඩ කරන අපේ විරුවා (our hero who delivers) to ridicule him, reports The Leader. Youth have posted visuals of the song being sung at long fuel queues 👇

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2 years

Anti-PTA Island wide petition campaign launched from #SriLanka 's northern Kankasanthurai reaches the Rajapaksa heartland in southern Hambantota, marking the final day of their journey. #RepealPTA @ShanakiyanR @MASumanthiran

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2 years

"My shaved head and black attire signifies that I come from a country that grants impunity to criminal militaries and denies justice to victims. Perhaps you are unaware that around 130 mothers in the north have died hugging onto photos of their loved ones." @SP_Ekneligoda UN #CED

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2 years

Why, oh why does the south forget that the largest massacre of all time was 2009? 👇

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@cartoonlka

2 years

Cartoon by Gihan de Chickera #lka #SriLanka #EconomicCrisisLK #SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaProtests #GoHomeGota #GoHomeRajapaksas

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3 years

In #Mullivaikkal where thousands perished nearly 13 years ago in a bloodbath that was the end of #SriLanka 's civil war, #Tamil mothers in black convene to protest 74 years of no independence.

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1 year

"Begging from the IMF - Continue with the genocide" #Jaffna university undergraduates protest #SriLanka state sponsored constructing of #Buddhist installations while vandalising #Hindu sites in the #Tamil speaking north.

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2 years

"My brother is in jail as a #Tamil political prisoner for 27 years. 3 generations are waiting for his release" said his sister Vahini, as she joined a group of relatives from the north who were allowed to visit their loved ones in #Welikada prison on #prisonersjusticeday .

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1 year

#HRC54 : Lawyer from war torn Vanni region @vsschayan on the continuing military led #Sinhalisation in #Tamil speaking areas, raises the issue of #SriLanka archeology department violating multiple court orders to assist #Sinhala Buddhists to erect a Vihara in #Kurunthoormalai .

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2 years

Hundreds congregate in #Nallur , #Jaffna to honour the memory of Thyagi #Thileepan born as Rasaiah Partheepan who started his fast unto death on this day 35 years ago to protest the occupying #Indian army and fight for the rights of #Tamils .

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2 years

WATCH: Water cannon attack on 100s of #Tamils in #Nallur demanding the truth about their loved ones led by relatives of disappeared and #Jaffna University students who braved the heavy deployment of military and police in #Jaffna to protest #SriLanka president @RW_UNP 's visit.

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4 months

Muttur magistrate court lifts the ban on #Mullivaikkal Kanji that led to the violent arrest of four in #Sampur offering rice gruel in the memory of massacred #Tamils . Lawyer @Sugashkanu offers his heartfelt thanks to the more than 10 #Muslim lawyers who supported him in the case

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3 years

#Tamil students in Kulamurippu mixed school, Mullaitivu light candles and pay a floral tribute to schoolchildren who lost their lives in #FerryTragedy due to the absence of a bridge, while President and PM light up to declare open #SriLanka 's first high-tech cable-stayed bridge.

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2 years

"Are you filming these journalists to kill them? Why one law for Colombo and another for Batticaloa?" @ShanakiyanR berates #SriLanka policemen in civvies caught red handed mingling with journalists to covertly film protesters seeking justice for slain #Tamilnet editor Sivaram.

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2 years

BREAKING Jeyaraj Palihawadana, until recently the UK representative of of Gotabaya Rajapaksa's political party has apologises unreservedly in court to human rights lawyer, Yasmin Sooka of @itjpsl , for making false statements against her, and pays significant sum as compensation

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2 years

"In the 50s more than 150 Tamils were massacred in Kantale... This was the foundation of Tamil Genocide... Since then in 77, 83 there were genocides that you have seen with your own eyes... However no head of state has apologized or expressed regret." @ImShritharan

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2 years

For the first time an international forum is hearing the list of 44 names of #SriLankan journalists and media workers killed or made to disappear since 2004 Bashana at the Hague reads out the list compiled by @JDSLanka in a moving appeal for justice 👇

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1 year

Sivalingam Arooran, #SriLanka national literary award winner for his prison novel ஆதுரசாலை (Hospital) speaks of inhuman torture under terror laws to extract a confession - the only evidence to implicate him - to indict him on false charges of attempt to kill Gotabaya Rajapaksa

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4 years

Attorney at law Ranitha Gnanarajah becomes the first Tamil from #SriLanka to be awarded the International Women of Courage award. Sandya Ekneligoda was the first #SriLankan to receive the @StateDept award in 2017 රනිතා ඥානරාජා 2021 ජාත්‍යන්තර දිරිය කත සම්මානයට නම් කෙරේ.

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2 years

@GGPonnambalam urges #Sinhalese trying so hard to have a complete system change "to put pressure on their leaders whether it be on that side or this side, to make this a system change that empowers the Tamils, the Muslims, the upcountry Tamils as well as the Sinhalese Buddhists.”

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3 years

WATCH @TNAOff activist Peter Ilanchelian arrested and his wife Ilanchelian Binduja roughed up by #SriLanka police when they tried to light a torch in memory of their loved ones at the #Mullaitivu seashore where thousands of #Tamils perished in the last bloody stages of the war.

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2 years

WATCH! Hundreds of young #Tamils took to the streets of #Jaffna 's Pannai in a torchlight march, with the participation of politicians, expressing solidarity with anti-government protesters in #Colombo . "Justice for Genocide" "Abolish PTA" " #GoHomeGota " chanted protesters

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2 years

#Tamil mothers in #Mullaitivu continuing with their protest for the s7th year on #InternationalWomensDay seeking to see the victims of enforced disappearance, demand the release of political prisoners and accountability for war crimes "Our struggle is not limited for this day"

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1 year

After 33 years, #Tamils allowed to worship at the Sri Muthumariamman Hindu kovil in Kattuvan, Valigamam North, #Jaffna . The area is under the occupation of the #SriLankan Army since 1990.

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1 year

#Jaffna university shrouded in black to mark 40 years since #SriLanka 's #BlackJuly state sponsored pogrom that killed at least 3000 #Tamils and chased away tens of thousands from the island. President Ranil Wickremesinghe was then a minister in his uncle JR Jayawardena's govt.

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3 years

Trade union leader Joseph Stalin and activists leave forced military detention in Mullaitivu Sri Lanka air force camp with renewed vows both in #Sinhala and #Tamil to carry on with struggle against the militarization of higher education in #SriLanka

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@lankafiles

2 years

@GGPonnambalam 'Astonished and Shocked' by @sajithpremadasa saying the opposition won't be able to support the government in Geneva, given the oppression against protesters. "Sadly, That is a slip that speaks the truth. ... #Tamil people cannot expect anything from this house".

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8 months

FACT CHECK🧵 Did G.G Ponnambalam MP vote for the Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948 which took away the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of upcountry #Tamils as claimed by #SriLanka 's minister of justice in @parliamentLK ? 1/5

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2 years

"Lend your ears to the mothers!" In solidarity with #Tamils in the north & east marking 2000 days of #SriLanka 's longest ongoing protest in search of the disappeared, Trade Union Leader Joseph Stalin leads a group of activists from the south joining the march in #Kilinochchi .

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2 years

Undergraduates of #SriLanka 's eastern university launch a day and night protest march in #Batticaloa demanding the resignation of @GotabayaR + @RW_UNP government. #SriLankaprotest

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1 year

#Tamil MP @gary_srp sworn in as the minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs in PM @JustinTrudeau 's cabinet. The minister was refused visa by his country of origin, #SriLanka recently.

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2 years

WATCH #Tamils visit Valikamam north in #Jaffna after #SriLanka president @RW_UNP announced that 108 acres under military occupation had been released for #IndependenceDay . "None of the private lands have been released, not even a small bit of land." (Subtitled) @UNSriLanka

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4 years

Braving rains and police intervention, the portuvil to polikandy protest march started as planned. Police and STF attempted to stop march based on court order. TNA MP Sannakiyan and others defy police and continued march. Placards seized by the police. #P2P @TNAmediaoffice

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1 year

At the Trincomalee Sardhapura junction, Sinhalese Mobs attack the vehicles parading for the 36th commemoration of Lt. Col. Rasaiah Parthipan of LTTE, who is revered as #ThiyagiThileepan , for sacrificing his life on a fast unto death for the Tamil liberation struggle.

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2 years

Students from Panikkankulam and Kilawankulam villages of Oddusudan Pradeshiya Sabha area in #Mullaitivu , unable to sit for exams on time as state owned busses are not picking them up, forced to block the road by tree trunks and branches in order to board a bus. @UNICEF_SriLanka

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2 years

Quoting a Sinhala broadsheet alleging that a politician 'in a country where children under 5 unable have proper meals' has claimed one billion as compensation for his hose that was destroyed in an arson attack, @ShanakiyanR MP urges speaker of @ParliamentLK to reveal the MPs name

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1 year

#Tamil playwright forced to abandon staging of drama depicting lives of #Malaiyaha Tamil plantation workers in #SriLanka ’s tea producing highlands - due to military and police special task force (STF) surveillance and intimidation - lodges complaint with @HRCSriLanka . @Irenekhan

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2 years

#SriLanka police, elite STF and military in Manipai, #Jaffna verbally abuse and assault youth who is alleged to have travelled in the pillion of a motorcycle without wearing a helmet. @HRCSriLanka says an investigation has been launched. Youth admitted to Jaffna teaching hospital

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2 years

@GGPonnambalam appeals to president @RW_UNP to 'tell the truth to the Sinhala people that the Federal path is the only solution to the ethnic question in #Srilanka '. "He should not hesitate to tell that to the Sinhalese people. Federalism is not separation. Quite the contrary"

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3 years

#Sinhala & #Catholic diaspora in #USA protest in #NYC demanding justice for 2019 #Easter bomb attack victims while #SriLanka president @GotabayaR is attending the #UNGA "Did you gain victory by killing the innocent?" asks one placard in Sinhala. @VaticanNews

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9 months

Protesting the death of 14 years old N A Dharsanth in a #SriLanka state owned probation center in #Kalmunai , local residents & relatives carried his coffin to the #Kokkuvil police station on Sunday (03). #Amparai JMO has concluded the young boy's death was the result of assault

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1 year

#Tamils including local politicians protest yet another attempt by #SriLanka navy to grab 18 acres of land in Mandativu, #Jaffna , owned by 29 families, to expand the Velusumana camp, despite heavy surveillance by Navy and police.

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3 years

#Tamils take to the streets in Kokkilai, #Mullaitivu protesting the apparent latest #SriLanka state-sponsored land grabbing effort in the Vanni. Protestors allege that nearly 1000 acres are taken over by a state-owned company under minister Wimal Weerawansa @oak_institute

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3 years

In #Jaffna , @TnpfOrg launches public campaign denouncing moves by #India and seven #Tamil political parties led by @TNAOff to urge #SriLanka government to implement the 13th amendment, which is "a bid to imprison #Tamils in a unitary state" 👇

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2 years

After protest demos organised by #Jaffna Students Union to release #military occupied #Tamil lands, #representation with demands handed over to #Valikamam North divisional secretariat. #landgrabbing #land rights #SriLanka #ProtestLK

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1 year

“Accountability remains the fundamental gap in attempts to deal with the past. And, as long as impunity prevails, Sri Lanka will achieve neither genuine reconciliation nor sustainable peace” @NadaNashif tells @UNHumanRights while reporting on #SriLanka #HumanRights situation

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2 years

Court acquits #Jaffna Mayor Viswalingam Manivannan charged in 2021 with "attempting to revive the LTTE by providing a uniform similar to their police uniform" to the Jaffna Municipal Council Civil Task Force. #SriLanka Police have been ordered to return the seized uniforms.

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2 years

A group of protesters in the Colombo district town of #Avissawella unable to join the #GotaGoHome rally in the Capital due to fuel and transport restrictions, protest opposite the police station before marching to the town center. #Aragalaya

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3 years

In Batticaloa, Tamil mothers protested on the streets seeking justice for the forcibly disappeared. #lka #protest #Batticaloa

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2 years

#SriLanka police attack relatives of forcibly disappeared #Tamils and #Jaffna university students who protest President @RW_UNP 's visit. "Give our children back" "We want our land" 📷 @Thavaseelan86

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4 months

Suganthini Mathiyamuthan Thangarasa, a #Tamil torture survivor from #SriLanka 's notorious Joseph camp in Vavuniya, wins 2024 #Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. “She stands as a symbol of courage and hope for the numerous women who have lost everything to the military,” @518org

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1 year

Relatives hold memorial to more than 50 schoolgirls killed by aerial bombing of #Sencholai children's home in 14 Aug 2006. #SriLanka Govt's spokesman 17 years ago & current Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, claimed the bombed site was a 'justifiable military target'.

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1 year

Exhumation at suspected #massgrave in #SriLanka 's Mullaitivu district delayed as the presence of #JMO , #forensic experts & officials are needed when magistrate visits spot at Kokkuthoduvai where skeletal remains along with clothing were found while laying water pipes on 29 June.

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2 years

#Tamils in Jaffna protest alleged attempts by #SriLanka president’s representative in the north - Governor Jeevan Thiyagarajah - to appropriate private owned land for military occupation, while @RW_UNP invites Tamil politicians to discuss unresolved issues.

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2 years

“Victory” said Ananthy Sasitharan after she walked out of the Vavuniya High Court premises with Attorney at Law KS Ratnavale and two other #Tamil women following the judge ordering #SriLanka military to produce their husbands, who surrendered in 2009 May, in court by March 22.

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3 years

Braving heavy downpour in Kilinochchi, #Tamil mothers from #SriLanka ’s north and east mark 5 years since their continuing protest in search of their loved ones who disappeared in military custody. கிளிநொச்சியில் கொட்டும் மழையிலும் காணாமல் ஆக்கப்பட்டோரின் போராட்டம்! @WGEID

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9 months

“I will not let you get down from the vehicle. Try to set foot if possible” Buddhist monk Ampitiye Sumana threatens @GGPonnambalam while police look on after blocking the MP on a visit to Mailaththamadu, where #Tamil dairy farmers are losing grazing land to Sinhala settlers.

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1 year

#Tamils mark 28 years since children attending school were massacred by an aerial attack. On 22 September 1995, #SriLanka Airforce Pucara aircraft bombed the Nagarkovil Maha Vidyalayam courtyard packed with 100s of children on their lunch break, killing 41 including 21 students.

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1 year

Heavy earthmoving equipment can been seen used to dig at #SriLanka 's recently discovered mass grave at #Kokkuthoduvai where excavations commenced under the directions of #Mullaitivu district judge T Pradeepan and JMO Vasudeva in the presence of UN officials & human rights lawyers

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2 years

#Srilanka president @RW_UNP 's media unit has more than 40 in staff with over 30 who receive an 80K monthly payment and a vehicle, reveals @anuradisanayake giving names. "He says that state officials should go home. Remember, you are the one who was sent home by public servants."

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@lankafiles

2 years

@kanchana_wij Can the minister kindly clarify how the fuel was supplied for transporting the ex PM who was in Trincomalee to @ParliamentLK on 17 May? 1. Did he use his own transport? If so, was it private or official. 2. Did he use state transport? If so, who pays/ paid the bill?

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1 year

WATCH “I believe in fighting to get what I want without waiting for handoffs” Former Tamil Tiger combatant Ponniah Jeyakumuthini from Jaffna who is a single mother with 2 children now lives in Vellaveli, Batticaloa. She split from her husband11 years ago.

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8 months

Police use force to arrest president of Vavuniya Association of Relatives of the Enforced Disappeared (ARED) Sivananthan Jenita and Meera Jasmine Charlesnise & bundle them into a bus when the ARED leader attempted to meet president @RW_UNP . They are protesting for over 2500 days

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1 year

"Is #SriLanka a democratic socialist republic only in name" Undergraduates of @uojofficial protesting alleged Mahaweli authority bid to clear 1500 acres of land to settle #Sinhalese in the former war zone of Akkaraveli, Kokkuthoduvai, Maritimepattu where a mass grave was found.

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2 years

"Victory to the struggle!" Thousands of dots of light raised in unison piercing the darkness as the multitude of students led by @IUSFSL marched to the #GalleFaceProtest venue braving court sanctions, spiked metal barricades and armed police units to demand #GotaGoHome

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11 months

@GGPonnambalam surprised over @ParliamentLK unanimously calling for a ceasefire "Other than Tamil parties, 15 years ago, when what is happening in Gaza happened in this country, in the north east, what Israel is doing today is what all these other members did to the Tamils."

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@lankafiles

2 years

"We have seen how the law is used on civilians. But, we haven't seen a precedence of the law equally been applied to politicians and the elite." Lawyer Achala Seneviratne at CID to give a statement on her complaint to IGP against #SriLanka ruling party MP Sanath Nishantha.

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@lankafiles

1 year

Armed #SriLanka forest department officials stormed into houses in Kaiveli, Puthukudiyiruppu, #Mullaitivu and assaulted people including women, say residents. Two hospitalised. The land that the LTTE settled 45 ex cadre families in 2000 had been later declared as forest land.

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1 year

17 flames ignited in #Jaffna to the memory of 17 #SriLankans killed 17 years ago while working for @ACF_France during the height of the war. Current Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella as govt spokesman at the time had said the area was under army control on the day it happened.

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1 year

Sinhala Buddhist monk leading a group that made an unsuccessful bid to storm into Tamil nationalist parliamentarian @GGPonnambalam ’s residence in #SriLanka ’s capital, threatens to be back with “Sinhala Buddhist power”.

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@lankafiles

1 year

Undergraduates, Dons and non academics of #Jaffna university mark the beginning of the #Tamil Genocide Week at the #Mullivaikkal memorial in the Campus. The monument to commemorate the war dead, demolished by the military in 2021 was restored after massive public protests.

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@lankafiles

2 years

' @RW_UNP has no authority to name large areas as High Security Zones under the Official Secret Act. People can take action against this illegal declaration. A president without a people's mandate is trying to implement non-existent laws to suppress public dissent.' @MASumanthiran

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10 months

#Tamil YOUTH DEAD IN CUSTODY 26 years old Nagarasa Alex arrested on 8 November by #SriLanka police in Vaddukoddai & remanded by Mallavi magistrate court on 10 Nov. found dead when brought to #Jaffna teaching hospital on 19. JMO has found multiple injuries on body of deceased👇

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2 years

2 @bbctamil journalists from #India , freelance journalists Rasika Gunawardena and Shabir Mohammed beaten while covering military assault on #GotaGoGama

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@lankafiles

2 years

“யுத்தத்தை நடத்த, தமிழர்களை அழிக்க, பொருளாதாரத்தை கட்டியெழுப்ப நிதியுதவிகளைப் பெற வெளியாரின் தலையீடு தேவைப்படுகிறது. எனினும் தமிழ் மக்களின் பிரச்சினைகளை தீர்க்கும் விடயத்தில் மாத்திரம் வெளியார் தேவையில்லை எனக் கூறுவது எந்த விதத்தில் நியாயம்.” @TNAOff எம்.பி @ImShritharan

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1 year

Human Rights Activist @SP_Ekneligoda goes to @HRCSriLanka to lodge a complaint questioning the police and the state stripping the right of peaceful protester guaranteed by #SriLanka ’s constitution. She & a group of activists were assaulted while marking 40 years since #BlackJuly .

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2 years

#Tamil relatives of forcibly disappeared and journalists challenge civil clad policeman who was photographing them at the #Mullaitivu district secretariat and intimidating them continuously when family members were protesting the @ompsrilanka officials visit to the area. @WGEID

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1 year

Continuous protest -one of the longest in #SriLanka - by relatives of the forcibly disappeared in the eastern #Amparai district reaches 2000 days. Mothers burn pieces of paper containing their demands signifying the denial of justice for almost 15 years.

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@lankafiles

2 years

" #SriLankan govt hasn't given up on destroying the #Tamil nation, shown by the most recent bids to expropriate land in Kurunthoormalai and Karai Nagar, despite the country reaching a state of chaos and the day to day life has become a struggle." @GGPonnambalam

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1 year

"If the military camps are dismantled more mass graves will come out because mass graves will be in places where military camps exist." Manuel Uthayachandra in #Mannar , #SriLanka , mother of Anton abducted and disappeared 15 years ago. @TheICMP @ICRC @WGEID

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