Category: Haraya Today

Allegations have been levelled against the Sri Lanka Police regarding killing a Tamil youth from the Eastern Province while he was in police custody. According to the deceased youth’s mother, her son had told...

A memorial lamp tower erected as part of the ‘unextinguished lamp’ protest demanding justice for the Chemmani mass grave victims has once again been vandalized by unidentified individuals, reports tamilguardian.com. In October, the candle-lit...

Jaffna’s ‘Uthayan’ newspaper, in its 23 November edition, published a list of 64 non-Tamil LTTE fighters who died in the war. It comprises the names of three Sinhalese, one Burgher and 60 Muslim men....

Over the past few years, Sri Lanka has witnessed multiple discoveries of several new mass graves. Hundreds of human remains are being excavated from these mass burial sites, and subsequently, a call for an...

A Tamil political party in the North has strongly denounced a recent event where members of the current government’s youth wing travelled to Jaffna on a fun tour, coinciding with the 42nd commemoration of...

Investigators at the most recently discovered mass grave complex in Sri Lanka’s war torn north have unearthed 56 bodies making the ill-fated site the fourth largest mass burial ground in the country. Excavations at...

Excavations have ended at the mass grave at Kokkutuduvai in Mullaitivu, where skeletal remains of 52 persons have been dug up. The third stage of work that ended on 15th, saw 12 skeletal parts...

The speaker has been urged to publicize the Human Rights Commission report into the anti-Muslim riots of 2018 that is yet to be publicized. Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Mujibur Rahman made the call following...

Tamil dairy farmers in Batticaloa have been protesting for 300 days unsuccessfully to demand the eviction of 13 squatters in their grassland at Mailaththamadu. This is despite a court order in Eravur to the...