Tag: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Sri Lanka: Ex-Navy chief arrested over recruitment of Rajapaksa’s son

July 3, 2026 admin

Wasantha Karannagoda. | Photo Credit: Shanker Chakravarty Colombo Sri Lanka’s anti-graft authorities on Friday (July 3, 2026) arrested former Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda in connection with the alleged illegal recruitment and overseas training of Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court later granted him bail. Issuing a statement following the arrest, the Commission to Investigate Allegations…

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Sri Lanka civil war: 17 years later, the imprints remain

May 15, 2026 admin

Tamil people take part in a commemoration ceremony in Mullivaikkal village in the Mullaitivu district in northern Sri Lanka on May 18, 2024, to remember victims of the civil war. | Photo Credit: AFP Wars do not end neatly on the battlefield, as the lives of Tamils in Sri Lanka’s north and east make evident….

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An opportunity to settle Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem

January 30, 2025 admin

India’s move to name the Jaffna Cultural Centre after the Tamil poet-philosopher, Thiruvalluvar, is a symbolic gesture by New Delhi to reinforce the unbreakable bond with Sri Lanka. When sections of Sri Lankan Tamils were agitated originally over the omission of ‘Jaffna’ in the Centre’s nomenclature, the Indian authorities were swift in their course correction….

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Impostors Raising Funds By Claiming LTTE Chief Velupillai Prabhakaran Is Alive, Says His Family

July 3, 2024 admin

Colombo: Labelling it as a “major scam”, the extended family of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has urged all Tamils in India and around the world not to fall into the trap laid out by certain elements in the diaspora fraternity who have been collecting millions of dollars by saying that…

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Sri Lanka’s Tamils face arrest as they remember the dead

May 14, 2024 admin

Commemorating Tamil victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war has remained a sensitive issue. A solidarity remembrance event held in May 2023 in Colombo was disrupted by a Sinhala nationalist group. | Photo Credit: File Photo The recent arrest of four Tamils in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province — when they commemorated their loved ones killed in…

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