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Mullivaikkal Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day — LIVE 🕯️🌹👇👇

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1 month ago | [YT] | 0

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Mark Julian Edwards’ snap, taken in a bus station in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, captured the general public’s eye to take the Travel Photographer of the Year 2025 People’s Choice Winner chosen following more than 4,000 public votes.

5 months ago | [YT] | 1

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Investigators at the most recently discovered mass grave complex in Siththupaththi Hindu cemetery, Chemmani in Sri Lanka’s war torn north have unearthed 56 bodies making the ill-fated site the 4th largest mass burial ground in the island nation. 👇👇👇
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11 months ago | [YT] | 2

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Sri Lanka President @anuradisanayake goes 'live' on a local TV Channel from Colombo less than an hour after he left for Vietnam for a UN Vesak day celebration.

1 year ago | [YT] | 2

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“Anti-terror police questions for hours about characters in Tamil novel"

#SriLanka’s Counter-Terrorism Investigation Division (CTID) has interrogated the President of the #Tamil Literary Forum over a novel that he has written. The fiction tells the story of a boy who lost his parents during the #war and became a university student leader amidst multiple obstacles, only to be killed in the war.
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2 years ago | [YT] | 2

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The peaceful protest by the #SriLankan #Tamil mothers searching for their kith and kin who either surrendered or handed over or went #missing during the final phase of the #war has entered the eighth year.
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2 years ago | [YT] | 1

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National People's Movement, led by Sarvodaya President Vinya S Ariyaratne, announces former army commander Mahesh Senanayake as their candidate for the impending #SriLanka presidential election.

General Senanayake came 4th in the 2019 election that brought Gotabaya to power.

2 years ago | [YT] | 0

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The Magistrate Court in Jaffna has reconfirmed the death of a Tamil youth in police custody as “a murder”.

Magistrate A.A. Anandharaja directed the charge sheet to be forwarded to the High Court for sentencing.
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2 years ago | [YT] | 0

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British government is highly unlikely to take any hard-hitting measures against #SriLanka over gross human rights violations including #WarCrimes and ongoing violations despite cross party calls for tough action.
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2 years ago | [YT] | 0

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Four policemen including a sub-inspector of the #Vaddukoddai #police station have been arrested in #Jaffna after the local Magistrate’s order in the murder of a #Tamil youth.
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2 years ago | [YT] | 0