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Tamil Tigers

July 2022

  • Tamil women holding a protest in Jaffna to remember family members who disappeared during the civil war.

    ‘A moment of opportunity’: fall of Sri Lankan president raises victims’ hopes

    Rights groups say they have a dossier of evidence against Gotabaya Rajapaksa – and a renewed appetite to bring him to account

May 2022

  • Diego Garcia

    Tamil refugees detained by UK on Chagos Islands go on hunger strike

    Forty-two hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by UK military

March 2022

  • Jagath Jayasuriya

    Federal police blame ‘oversight’ for delay in Australian review of Sri Lankan war crime allegations

  • Gotabaya Rajapaksa (centre) at a Victory Day rehearsal in 2013

    Tamils fear prison and torture in Sri Lanka, 13 years after civil war ended

February 2020

  • Shavendra Silva, centre, last year. Silva’s promotion to army chief in January 2019 triggered widespread outrage.

    US imposes sanctions on Sri Lankan army chief over war crimes

    Top general Shavendra Silva, whose army unit was accused of shelling Tamils in ‘no-fire zones’, blacklisted for ‘gross violations of human rights’

April 2019

  • Soldiers secure the area around St Anthony’s shrine in Colombo on Sunday.

    Sri Lanka needs exemplary leadership during this national catastrophe

    Dilrukshi Handunnetti
    Bickering and passing the buck for government failures will not help, says Dilrukshi Handunnetti, executive director of Sri Lanka’s Centre for Investigative Reporting

January 2019

  • Vaishnavi Suryaprakash in Counting and Cracking

    Counting and Cracking: the story behind Belvoir Street theatre's most ambitious play to date

    As epic and Australian as Cloudstreet or The Secret River, the multilingual play charts a family from Colombo in the 50s, through the Sri Lankan civil war, finally arriving in western Sydney in the 21st Century

November 2018

  • Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne arrives at the magistrates court in Colombo after weeks evading arrest.

    Sri Lanka's most senior military official in court over civil-war abductions

    Ravindra Wijegunaratne, the chief of the defence staff, is accused of aiding the abduction of 11 people in the final stages of the war
  • Tilipan, a local activist, with information on missing people

    ‘In my dreams I see my son’: Sri Lanka mourns its missing – in pictures

    Between 1983 and 2009, 65,000 people disappeared in Sri Lanka. Marco Valle’s images reflect the hope and powerlessness of the families affected
  • Mahinda Rajapaksa (centre right)

    Bringing Rajapaksa back to power would be ruin of Sri Lanka

    Sonya Sceats
    Torture risk means UK Home Office asylum policy needs urgent review

October 2018

  • Jeyarani Vaiththeeswaran and her daughter hold a photograph of their missing son and brother Antany.

    Contemporary photography special
    Sri Lanka, the land of the disappeared​ – a photo essay​

    Moises Saman’s latest work captures the terrible aftermath of the country’s civil war among its Tamil minority

August 2018

  • A Tamil Tiger flag tied to a telegraph pole

    More than 100 human skeletons found in mass grave in Sri Lanka

    Find made in town where Tamil guerrillas and state forces clashed during civil war

July 2018

  • The Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre

    Australia deports Tamil asylum seeker despite father's murder

    Kavi’s mother and sister are missing and his brother was killed in 2009
  • Sri Lankan children look on as a soldier stands guard.

    Sri Lankan reform has 'ground to a halt' with torture used freely – UN

    Coalition government has failed on to repeal critcised Prevention of Terrorism Act
  • Thileepan and his daughter

    Australia deports Tamil asylum seeker, separating him from baby daughter

    Thileepan faces permanent separation from his wife and child, who have been granted safe haven visas

May 2018

  • Female soldiers of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, 2002, Sri Lanka

    Files on Tamil Tigers and MI5 in Sri Lanka erased at Foreign Office

    Destruction of 1978-1980 files means there is no record of UK government’s work at the time

March 2018

  • Australian-born daughters, Dharuniga (9 months old) and Kopig (2 years old), who were taken into immigration detention after a dawn raid on 5 March.

    Tamil asylum seeker family remains in Australia after last-minute reprieve

  • Kevin Kadirgamar

    The altruists
    Kevin Kadirgamar: We have a duty to say that's not who we are

February 2018

  • Tamil Tiger flag

    Tamil asylum seeker deported by Australia 'harassed by Sri Lankan security forces'

  • A boat carrying asylum seekers

    Tamil asylum seeker to be deported after UN committee withdraws torture concerns

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