Chinniah Rajeshkumar — better known as Ragavan — co-founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with Velupillai Prabhakaran in the mid-1970s. He left the LTTE in 1984 and settled in the UK, where he now works as a legal advisor and activist.
An area of 187.56 acres of land belonging to the State Cement Corporation in Kankesanthurai, Jaffna, has been formally released by the Security Forces for future civilian use, allowing the property to
A police sergeant attached to Malwathuhiripitiya Police in Sri Lanka’s Gampaha Police Division has been suspended following an investigation into an alleged attempt to obtain a kilogramme of chicken meat in exchange for securing bail for a suspect. According to
Christa Pike's survival has exposed a contradiction that capital punishment normally conceals. The state can declare a life forfeit, but when its machinery of
A senior figure in Sri Lanka’s Frontline Socialist Party has claimed that two-thirds of the country’s population has fallen into poverty under the current
Editor’s Note: This essay, adapted from the latest issue of Jaffna Monitor, examines the political assassination of Alfred Duraiappah in 1975 and the broader evolution of the term “traitor” within Tamil nationalist
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