One was a Tamil doctor, University of Jaffna academic and human-rights activist who helped establish the University Teachers for Human Rights and co-authored The Broken Palmyrah.

India is taking pains to feature Sri Lanka as its “civilizational twin.” India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka has used the expression repeatedly. In October 2024, India’s High Commissioner Santosh Jha said: “We are not merely geographical neighbors, we are civilizational twins.”

A Rohingya refugee living in Sri Lanka addressed the UN Human Rights Council by video through Pax Romana and called, among other things, for Sri Lanka to consider granting citizenship or permanent residency to Rohingyas and other refugees who cannot find permanent settlement elsewhere.

When an alleged error in a court petition can put a man’s liberty on the line. The question before the public is what happens when the premise on which an allegation against Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay rests is itself wrong? In the Intervening Petition filed by His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith before the Court of Appeal, Clause 18(1) states: “Petitioner-Respondent Suresh Sallay had held the position of Director Military Intelligence during the stage that the Easter Sunday Attacks took place on the 21st April 2019.”

The mastermind behind the decision to arrest Gen. Suresh Sallay may prove easier to identify than the increasingly sporadic efforts being made to connect him to the Easter Sunday attacks. Attempts to link him to Easter Sunday raises more questions than answers. For the President this poses a major issue. More than extending the PTA DO, President must ponder what political, institutional & national-security purpose is served by continuing to keep a retired distinguished officer in custody when even the Govt is aware they have no case against him. The President & Govt must now foresee where a continued detention will head.

Have we actually learnt the lesson of Easter Sunday? A serious allegation has been made about an alleged LTTE-related facility in the Pallai/Akkarayankulam area.

A historical record cannot be rewritten because it does not fit the new narrative.

This rebuttal examines whether the Channel 4 documentary establishes its central allegation of high-level state complicity in the Easter Sunday attacks on the basis of independently verifiable evidence, or whether it relies primarily on delayed testimony, anonymous sourcing, and inferential narrative construction.

Seventeen years after the defeat of the LTTE, Mullivaikkal continues to be internationally presented almost exclusively through one narrative: that of civilian suffering caused during the final phase of the war. Yet, why does “civilian suffering” need LTTE insignia and LTTE propaganda. Why are only pro-LTTE supporters present. Why are mothers of rival Tamil militant groups excluded as are the families of those LTTE killed. These are unpalatable questions that never receive answers.