[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @TamilGuardian Tamil Guardian Tamil Guardian posts on X about sri, sri lanka, has been, sri lankan the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1947 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::211116487/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +22% - X Month XXXXXXX +44% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +26% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::211116487/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +38% - X Year XXXXX +27% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::211116487/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.01% - X Month XXXXXX +0.11% - X Months XXXXXX +1.60% - X Year XXXXXX +2.90% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::211116487/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::211116487/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) **Social topic influence** [sri](/topic/sri) #329, [sri lanka](/topic/sri-lanka) #293, [has been](/topic/has-been), [sri lankan](/topic/sri-lankan) #26, [murder](/topic/murder), [massacre](/topic/massacre) #71, [human rights](/topic/human-rights), [over the](/topic/over-the), [liberation](/topic/liberation), [paris](/topic/paris) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@tnpforg](/creator/undefined) [@ggponnambalam](/creator/undefined) [@hrw](/creator/undefined) [@umakumaran](/creator/undefined) [@keirstarmer](/creator/undefined) [@uklabour](/creator/undefined) [@itjpsl](/creator/undefined) [@catherinewest1](/creator/undefined) [@volkerturk](/creator/undefined) [@usambsl](/creator/undefined) [@pearlaction](/creator/undefined) [@thusikumar](/creator/undefined) [@andrewmitchmp](/creator/undefined) [@imshritharan](/creator/undefined) [@10downingstreet](/creator/undefined) [@justintrudeau](/creator/undefined) [@elliotcolburn](/creator/undefined) [@davidlammy](/creator/undefined) [@shanakiyanr](/creator/undefined) [@gareththomasmp](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::211116487/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "🚨 Prabhakaran fought with courage Mahinda was a coward - Sarath Fonseka Former Sri Lankan army commander and accused war criminal Sarath Fonseka expressed respect Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran claiming that he refused to flee the battlefield during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009. Though the leader of the LTTE was our adversary he did not flee; he fought till the very end Fonseka told reporters. For that I continue to accord him the honour he deserves. He did not run away from the battlefield but faced the final battle steadfastly." [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980720826878976093) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-21T19:40Z 45.5K followers, 30.7K engagements "🚨 Over XXX human skeletons uncovered in Sri Lankas capital Excavations at the Colombo Port mass grave where over one hundred human skeletons have been unearthed have officially concluded the Colombo Magistrates Court was informed this week. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1981356133538214139) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-23T13:44Z 45.5K followers, 154.4K engagements "🚨 UK soldier cleared in Bloody Sunday murder trial A former British Army soldier known as "Soldier F" has been acquitted of two murders and five attempted murders related to the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on January XX 1972. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982859619245654471) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-27T17:19Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements "🪔 Still no justice for Tamil activists shot dead in Paris Today marks XX years since two Tamil activists were shot dead in a Parisian neighbourhood a murder that shocked the Tamil diaspora worldwide and remains unsolved to this day. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982378802509451531) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-26T09:28Z 45.5K followers, 4955 engagements "🚨 'Sri Lanka must stop harassing Tamil photojournalist Kumanan' - RSF Reporters Without Borders (@RSF_inter) has urged the Sri Lankan government to end the ongoing harassment of Tamil photojournalist @kumanan93 who has been targeted for documenting human rights violations in the Tamil homeland. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982433038731559164) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-26T13:04Z 45.5K followers, 2644 engagements "🚨 LEAD - Swiss Social Democratic Party calls for international genocide investigation into Sri Lanka The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP Switzerland) has unanimously passed a resolution on the situation in Sri Lanka calling for an international genocide investigation at their party congress on the 25th of October 2025 in Sursee Canton of Lucerne. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982789971007144311) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-27T12:42Z 45.5K followers, 2419 engagements "🚨 Sri Lanka joins UN peacekeeping talks despite war crimes Sri Lankas participation in a United Nations peacekeeping conference has drawn renewed scrutiny as the countrys army commander whose regiment was implicated in war crimes attended the United Nations Troop Contributing Countries (UNTCC) Chiefs Conclave 2025 in New Delhi earlier this month. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982907893083992472) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-27T20:30Z 45.5K followers, 1202 engagements "🚨 Israeli academic suggests replicating Sri Lankan approach to defeat 'terrorism' Self-styled "leftist" Israeli platform @telem_berl published an article by @NevoSpiegel suggesting that Israel should replicate Sri Lankas approach to defeating terrorist organizations comparing the offensive in Gaza to the 2009 genocide in Mullivaikkal. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1978750840169980213) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-16T09:12Z 45.5K followers, 30.9K engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan police evicted from occupied land after six-year court battle Sri Lankan police officers were evicted from the occupying police station in Koppay this week following a court order that ruled the land they had occupied for decades belonged to private Tamil owners. The long-contested properties were officially handed back to their rightful owners on Wednesday marking the end of a six-year legal struggle. Despite this single victory tens of thousands of Sri Lankan soldiers and police officers continue to occupy vast swathes of land across the Tamil North-East. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1978842182770442665) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-16T15:15Z 45.5K followers, 6598 engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan military conducts controversial blood donation drive in Mullaitivu The Sri Lankan military has come under renewed criticism after organising a blood donation drive in Mullaitivu a Tamil district that remains one of the most heavily militarised regions on the island. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980236611683049765) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-20T11:36Z 45.5K followers, 4828 engagements "🚨 Tamil MP warns of state-sponsored erasure as Kurunthurmalai rebranded as Buddhist heritage Vanni District parliamentarian Thurairasa Ravikaranhas condemned what he described as a deliberate act of Tamil erasure by the Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology after new display boards falsely linking the Tamil heritage site of Kurunthurmalai to Buddhist history were installed earlier this month. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980281350163743013) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-20T14:34Z 45.5K followers, 1566 engagements "🚨 Jaffna council blocks Navys bid to seize land for radar system The Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha has unanimously rejected a request by the Sri Lankan Navy to acquire a two-acre plot of land in Keerimalai Jaffna for the installation of a radar system. The decision was made at the councils monthly meeting last week chaired by S. Sughirthan where members voted in favour of a resolution refusing to release the land. During the session a National Peoples Power (NPP) representative claimed the land was required for a radar installation to help combat narcotics trafficking and suggested that" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980340403283915184) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-20T18:28Z 45.5K followers, 1796 engagements "🪧 Farmers protest land grabs as Sri Lankan president visits Trincomalee Farmers from Muthunagar and Kinniya in Trincomalee staged a demonstration this weekend coinciding with Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayakes visit to the district for an event at the occupying air force base. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980364187055607893) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-20T20:03Z 45.5K followers, 1292 engagements "🚨 Tamil victims of 1989 Valvettithurai massacre seek Rs. XXX billion in reparations For the first time in Sri Lankas history a detailed reparations and compensation claim has been submitted by victims of a historic mass atrocity the 1989 Valvettithurai massacre in which at least XX Tamil civilians were killed and XX injured by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). The claim amounting to Rs. XXX billion (USD $XX million) was developed by the International Truth and Justice Project (@itjpsl) in collaboration with the Valvettithurai Citizens Committee and submitted to the Sri Lankan Office for" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980376940252131799) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-20T20:53Z 45.5K followers, 5221 engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan opposition politician shot dead inside office A Sri Lankan opposition politician was shot dead inside his office in Weligama on Wednesday morning marking the first assassination of a high-profile politician since Anura Kumara Dissanayakes government came to power last year. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980960343040872524) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-22T11:32Z 45.5K followers, 8772 engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan military constructs illegal hospital on occupied Tamil land The Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) has pledged to take legal action against the Sri Lankan military for the construction of an unauthorised military hospital on privately owned land in Vasavilan Jaffna an area still occupied under the guise of a so-called High-Security Zone. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1981358240135860499) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-23T13:53Z 45.5K followers, 1663 engagements "🚨 Governments new Sri Lankan Day placed under Ministry of Buddhasasana The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved a programme titled Sri Lankan Day which it claims will promote unity and understanding and declared that its organisation and implementation will be overseen by the Ministry of Buddhasasana. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1981694496057307402) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-24T12:09Z 45.5K followers, 1030 engagements "🚨 Vanni MP questions continued Sri Lankan military occupation of land in Vavuniya During a parliamentary session Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) parliamentarian for the Vanni District Dr P. Sathiyalingam questioned the Sri Lankan government over the continued military occupation of civilian lands in Vavuniya - including the site of an LTTE cemetery. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1981698869973991618) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-24T12:26Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements "🚨 Sri Lanka accused of mistreating Thai elephants as Bangkok sends rescue team Thailands government has announced plans to hold urgent talks with Sri Lankan authorities to repatriate two Thai elephants that were gifted decades ago following growing outrage over reports of their mistreatment and poor living conditions. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1981702933931585840) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-24T12:42Z 45.5K followers, 1817 engagements "🚨 Even the LTTE never did this: SLPP warns Sri Lanka descending into lawlessness The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Sagara Kariyawasam has said that even the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) did not enter offices to assassinate their opponents warning that the current state of law and order in Sri Lanka is more terrifying than during the time of the conflict. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982435023782355417) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-26T13:11Z 45.5K followers, 4703 engagements "🚨 Trincomalee farmers mark XX days of protest in heavy rain Farmers from Muthu Nagar in Trincomalee have passed their 38th consecutive day of their protest braving relentless rain as they demand the return of their agricultural lands that have been seized by the Sri Lankan government for a solar power project. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982444834800443634) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-26T13:50Z 45.5K followers, 1058 engagements "🚨 BTF warns UN resolution risks reinforcing impunity in Sri Lanka The British Tamils Forum (@tamilsforum) has written to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Trk expressing deep concern over the recently adopted UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/60/L.1/Rev.1 on Sri Lanka and warning that it risks reinforcing impunity rather than advancing justice for the Tamil people. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982446787395788884) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-26T13:58Z 45.5K followers, 1078 engagements "✍ 'The UNs Sri Lanka Failure' - @Thusi_Kumar Writing in The Diplomat last week Tamil Guardian editor Thusiyan Nandakumar described Tamil frustration at the latest United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka which has been widely panned by observers as the weakest on Sri Lanka since such measures on accountability were first introduced at the global body. "There is a weary familiar frustration that the worlds most powerful human rights body has once again failed to hold Sri Lankas war criminals to account more than a decade and a half later." Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1980624685101351089) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-21T13:18Z 45.5K followers, 3425 engagements "🚨 'NPP as rotten as its predecessors' - @GGPonnambalam condemns TIDs questioning of Tamil activist Sri Lankas Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has summoned a senior Tamil National Peoples Front (@TnpfOrg) member for questioning over an old social media post in yet another incident of authorities interrogating Tamil political activists. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1981004330556653906) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-22T14:26Z 45.5K followers, 1215 engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan prisons chief calls for executions to protect Sinhala-Buddhists Sri Lankas Prisons Commissioner and Media Spokesman Jageth Weerasinghe has called for the implementation of the death penalty for large-scale drug traffickers claiming it is necessary to protect future generations as the majority of drug addicts are Sinhala-Buddhist. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1981758538251706550) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-24T16:23Z 45.5K followers, 2091 engagements "🎙 'Claim where you are standing and you do the work that you can do and you wait - Interview with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan Drawing on years of experience leading conversations in schools and community groups about consent sexuality and the shame many young people feel about their bodies Gayathiri discovered a new creative outlet: theatre. Their debut play Period Parrrty was born from a writing workshop and centres on a queer teenager navigating the samathiya-veedu also known as the puberty ceremony. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982396533417853403) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-26T10:38Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan police open fire on Tamil youth in Jaffna say relatives Relatives of an 18-year-old Tamil youth have accused the Sri Lankan police of opening fire on him while he was operating a tractor in Kodikamam Jaffna on Friday night. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982438355372589346) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-26T13:25Z 45.5K followers, 2999 engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan PM Amarasuriya rules out international probe into war crimes The National Peoples Power (NPP) government has reiterated its opposition to an international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya reaffirming the states position in parliament last week. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982785447177712095) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-27T12:24Z 45.5K followers, 1501 engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan army disrupts Heroes Day cemetery preparations in Visuvamadu Preparations for Maaveerar Naal or Great Heroes Day began this week at the site of a destroyed cemetery in Visuvamadu Theravil with local residents carrying out voluntary cleaning and maintenance work in honour of the Tamil fallen. However Sri Lankan army personnel stationed nearby disrupted the preparations. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1982829607658148301) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-27T15:19Z 45.5K followers, 3032 engagements "🚨 Israeli advisers shaped Sinhala settlement schemes writes Sri Lankan professor A Sri Lankan professor at a military university has analysed the Israeli influence behind Sri Lankas Sinhala settlement policies during the late 20th century particularly in the Mahaweli Development Project the islands largest post-independence scheme. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1983205346853200328) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-28T16:12Z 45.5K followers, 6723 engagements "🚨 Trincomalee mineral workers demand pay after XX months without wages In Trincomalee XX employees of the Pulmoddai Mineral Sands Corporation have continued their loud and determined protest demanding that the Sri Lankan government pay their long-overdue wages. The workers who have not received their salaries for more than XX months say the delay has pushed their families into severe financial hardship disrupting their childrens education and forcing many into debt. Despite repeated appeals to ministry officials no resolution has been reached. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1983207165063016455) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-28T16:20Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements "🪧 Clergy hold protest at Chemmani demanding justice for massacre victims Members of the Methodist Church held a symbolic protest in Chemmani on Tuesday calling for justice for the victims of the Chemmani mass grave. The demonstration attended by clergy and community members sought to draw attention to the continuing lack of accountability for the mass killings and secret burials carried out by the Sri Lankan military in Chemmani Jaffna during the late 1990s. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1983214948667838494) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-28T16:51Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements "🚨 Sri Lankan military fuelling drug crisis in Tamil homeland says Ponnambalam Tamil National Peoples Front (@TnpfOrg) leader and Jaffna District MP @GGPonnambalam has accused the Sri Lankan military of playing a central role in the spread of narcotics across the Tamil homeland warning that drug addiction has been deliberately fostered. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1983223604125848020) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-28T17:25Z 45.5K followers, 1654 engagements "🚨279706 children displaced across Sri Lanka from climate disasters UNICEF's report Weathering the Future: The Growing Crisis of Child Displacement in South Asia detailed that an estimated XXX per cent of its under-18 population was displaced between 2016 to 2022 due to climatic disaster events. Read more" [X Link](https://x.com/TamilGuardian/status/1983234256085082526) [@TamilGuardian](/creator/x/TamilGuardian) 2025-10-28T18:07Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements
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Tamil Guardian posts on X about sri, sri lanka, has been, sri lankan the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1947 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @tnpforg @ggponnambalam @hrw @umakumaran @keirstarmer @uklabour @itjpsl @catherinewest1 @volkerturk @usambsl @pearlaction @thusikumar @andrewmitchmp @imshritharan @10downingstreet @justintrudeau @elliotcolburn @davidlammy @shanakiyanr @gareththomasmp
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"🚨 Prabhakaran fought with courage Mahinda was a coward - Sarath Fonseka Former Sri Lankan army commander and accused war criminal Sarath Fonseka expressed respect Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran claiming that he refused to flee the battlefield during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009. Though the leader of the LTTE was our adversary he did not flee; he fought till the very end Fonseka told reporters. For that I continue to accord him the honour he deserves. He did not run away from the battlefield but faced the final battle steadfastly."
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-21T19:40Z 45.5K followers, 30.7K engagements
"🚨 Over XXX human skeletons uncovered in Sri Lankas capital Excavations at the Colombo Port mass grave where over one hundred human skeletons have been unearthed have officially concluded the Colombo Magistrates Court was informed this week. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-23T13:44Z 45.5K followers, 154.4K engagements
"🚨 UK soldier cleared in Bloody Sunday murder trial A former British Army soldier known as "Soldier F" has been acquitted of two murders and five attempted murders related to the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on January XX 1972. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-27T17:19Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements
"🪔 Still no justice for Tamil activists shot dead in Paris Today marks XX years since two Tamil activists were shot dead in a Parisian neighbourhood a murder that shocked the Tamil diaspora worldwide and remains unsolved to this day. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-26T09:28Z 45.5K followers, 4955 engagements
"🚨 'Sri Lanka must stop harassing Tamil photojournalist Kumanan' - RSF Reporters Without Borders (@RSF_inter) has urged the Sri Lankan government to end the ongoing harassment of Tamil photojournalist @kumanan93 who has been targeted for documenting human rights violations in the Tamil homeland. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-26T13:04Z 45.5K followers, 2644 engagements
"🚨 LEAD - Swiss Social Democratic Party calls for international genocide investigation into Sri Lanka The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP Switzerland) has unanimously passed a resolution on the situation in Sri Lanka calling for an international genocide investigation at their party congress on the 25th of October 2025 in Sursee Canton of Lucerne. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-27T12:42Z 45.5K followers, 2419 engagements
"🚨 Sri Lanka joins UN peacekeeping talks despite war crimes Sri Lankas participation in a United Nations peacekeeping conference has drawn renewed scrutiny as the countrys army commander whose regiment was implicated in war crimes attended the United Nations Troop Contributing Countries (UNTCC) Chiefs Conclave 2025 in New Delhi earlier this month. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-27T20:30Z 45.5K followers, 1202 engagements
"🚨 Israeli academic suggests replicating Sri Lankan approach to defeat 'terrorism' Self-styled "leftist" Israeli platform @telem_berl published an article by @NevoSpiegel suggesting that Israel should replicate Sri Lankas approach to defeating terrorist organizations comparing the offensive in Gaza to the 2009 genocide in Mullivaikkal. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-16T09:12Z 45.5K followers, 30.9K engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan police evicted from occupied land after six-year court battle Sri Lankan police officers were evicted from the occupying police station in Koppay this week following a court order that ruled the land they had occupied for decades belonged to private Tamil owners. The long-contested properties were officially handed back to their rightful owners on Wednesday marking the end of a six-year legal struggle. Despite this single victory tens of thousands of Sri Lankan soldiers and police officers continue to occupy vast swathes of land across the Tamil North-East. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-16T15:15Z 45.5K followers, 6598 engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan military conducts controversial blood donation drive in Mullaitivu The Sri Lankan military has come under renewed criticism after organising a blood donation drive in Mullaitivu a Tamil district that remains one of the most heavily militarised regions on the island. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-20T11:36Z 45.5K followers, 4828 engagements
"🚨 Tamil MP warns of state-sponsored erasure as Kurunthurmalai rebranded as Buddhist heritage Vanni District parliamentarian Thurairasa Ravikaranhas condemned what he described as a deliberate act of Tamil erasure by the Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology after new display boards falsely linking the Tamil heritage site of Kurunthurmalai to Buddhist history were installed earlier this month. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-20T14:34Z 45.5K followers, 1566 engagements
"🚨 Jaffna council blocks Navys bid to seize land for radar system The Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha has unanimously rejected a request by the Sri Lankan Navy to acquire a two-acre plot of land in Keerimalai Jaffna for the installation of a radar system. The decision was made at the councils monthly meeting last week chaired by S. Sughirthan where members voted in favour of a resolution refusing to release the land. During the session a National Peoples Power (NPP) representative claimed the land was required for a radar installation to help combat narcotics trafficking and suggested that"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-20T18:28Z 45.5K followers, 1796 engagements
"🪧 Farmers protest land grabs as Sri Lankan president visits Trincomalee Farmers from Muthunagar and Kinniya in Trincomalee staged a demonstration this weekend coinciding with Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayakes visit to the district for an event at the occupying air force base. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-20T20:03Z 45.5K followers, 1292 engagements
"🚨 Tamil victims of 1989 Valvettithurai massacre seek Rs. XXX billion in reparations For the first time in Sri Lankas history a detailed reparations and compensation claim has been submitted by victims of a historic mass atrocity the 1989 Valvettithurai massacre in which at least XX Tamil civilians were killed and XX injured by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). The claim amounting to Rs. XXX billion (USD $XX million) was developed by the International Truth and Justice Project (@itjpsl) in collaboration with the Valvettithurai Citizens Committee and submitted to the Sri Lankan Office for"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-20T20:53Z 45.5K followers, 5221 engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan opposition politician shot dead inside office A Sri Lankan opposition politician was shot dead inside his office in Weligama on Wednesday morning marking the first assassination of a high-profile politician since Anura Kumara Dissanayakes government came to power last year. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-22T11:32Z 45.5K followers, 8772 engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan military constructs illegal hospital on occupied Tamil land The Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) has pledged to take legal action against the Sri Lankan military for the construction of an unauthorised military hospital on privately owned land in Vasavilan Jaffna an area still occupied under the guise of a so-called High-Security Zone. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-23T13:53Z 45.5K followers, 1663 engagements
"🚨 Governments new Sri Lankan Day placed under Ministry of Buddhasasana The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved a programme titled Sri Lankan Day which it claims will promote unity and understanding and declared that its organisation and implementation will be overseen by the Ministry of Buddhasasana. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-24T12:09Z 45.5K followers, 1030 engagements
"🚨 Vanni MP questions continued Sri Lankan military occupation of land in Vavuniya During a parliamentary session Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) parliamentarian for the Vanni District Dr P. Sathiyalingam questioned the Sri Lankan government over the continued military occupation of civilian lands in Vavuniya - including the site of an LTTE cemetery. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-24T12:26Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements
"🚨 Sri Lanka accused of mistreating Thai elephants as Bangkok sends rescue team Thailands government has announced plans to hold urgent talks with Sri Lankan authorities to repatriate two Thai elephants that were gifted decades ago following growing outrage over reports of their mistreatment and poor living conditions. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-24T12:42Z 45.5K followers, 1817 engagements
"🚨 Even the LTTE never did this: SLPP warns Sri Lanka descending into lawlessness The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Sagara Kariyawasam has said that even the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) did not enter offices to assassinate their opponents warning that the current state of law and order in Sri Lanka is more terrifying than during the time of the conflict. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-26T13:11Z 45.5K followers, 4703 engagements
"🚨 Trincomalee farmers mark XX days of protest in heavy rain Farmers from Muthu Nagar in Trincomalee have passed their 38th consecutive day of their protest braving relentless rain as they demand the return of their agricultural lands that have been seized by the Sri Lankan government for a solar power project. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-26T13:50Z 45.5K followers, 1058 engagements
"🚨 BTF warns UN resolution risks reinforcing impunity in Sri Lanka The British Tamils Forum (@tamilsforum) has written to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Trk expressing deep concern over the recently adopted UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/60/L.1/Rev.1 on Sri Lanka and warning that it risks reinforcing impunity rather than advancing justice for the Tamil people. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-26T13:58Z 45.5K followers, 1078 engagements
"✍ 'The UNs Sri Lanka Failure' - @Thusi_Kumar Writing in The Diplomat last week Tamil Guardian editor Thusiyan Nandakumar described Tamil frustration at the latest United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka which has been widely panned by observers as the weakest on Sri Lanka since such measures on accountability were first introduced at the global body. "There is a weary familiar frustration that the worlds most powerful human rights body has once again failed to hold Sri Lankas war criminals to account more than a decade and a half later." Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-21T13:18Z 45.5K followers, 3425 engagements
"🚨 'NPP as rotten as its predecessors' - @GGPonnambalam condemns TIDs questioning of Tamil activist Sri Lankas Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has summoned a senior Tamil National Peoples Front (@TnpfOrg) member for questioning over an old social media post in yet another incident of authorities interrogating Tamil political activists. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-22T14:26Z 45.5K followers, 1215 engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan prisons chief calls for executions to protect Sinhala-Buddhists Sri Lankas Prisons Commissioner and Media Spokesman Jageth Weerasinghe has called for the implementation of the death penalty for large-scale drug traffickers claiming it is necessary to protect future generations as the majority of drug addicts are Sinhala-Buddhist. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-24T16:23Z 45.5K followers, 2091 engagements
"🎙 'Claim where you are standing and you do the work that you can do and you wait - Interview with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan Drawing on years of experience leading conversations in schools and community groups about consent sexuality and the shame many young people feel about their bodies Gayathiri discovered a new creative outlet: theatre. Their debut play Period Parrrty was born from a writing workshop and centres on a queer teenager navigating the samathiya-veedu also known as the puberty ceremony. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-26T10:38Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan police open fire on Tamil youth in Jaffna say relatives Relatives of an 18-year-old Tamil youth have accused the Sri Lankan police of opening fire on him while he was operating a tractor in Kodikamam Jaffna on Friday night. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-26T13:25Z 45.5K followers, 2999 engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan PM Amarasuriya rules out international probe into war crimes The National Peoples Power (NPP) government has reiterated its opposition to an international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya reaffirming the states position in parliament last week. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-27T12:24Z 45.5K followers, 1501 engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan army disrupts Heroes Day cemetery preparations in Visuvamadu Preparations for Maaveerar Naal or Great Heroes Day began this week at the site of a destroyed cemetery in Visuvamadu Theravil with local residents carrying out voluntary cleaning and maintenance work in honour of the Tamil fallen. However Sri Lankan army personnel stationed nearby disrupted the preparations. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-27T15:19Z 45.5K followers, 3032 engagements
"🚨 Israeli advisers shaped Sinhala settlement schemes writes Sri Lankan professor A Sri Lankan professor at a military university has analysed the Israeli influence behind Sri Lankas Sinhala settlement policies during the late 20th century particularly in the Mahaweli Development Project the islands largest post-independence scheme. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-28T16:12Z 45.5K followers, 6723 engagements
"🚨 Trincomalee mineral workers demand pay after XX months without wages In Trincomalee XX employees of the Pulmoddai Mineral Sands Corporation have continued their loud and determined protest demanding that the Sri Lankan government pay their long-overdue wages. The workers who have not received their salaries for more than XX months say the delay has pushed their families into severe financial hardship disrupting their childrens education and forcing many into debt. Despite repeated appeals to ministry officials no resolution has been reached. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-28T16:20Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements
"🪧 Clergy hold protest at Chemmani demanding justice for massacre victims Members of the Methodist Church held a symbolic protest in Chemmani on Tuesday calling for justice for the victims of the Chemmani mass grave. The demonstration attended by clergy and community members sought to draw attention to the continuing lack of accountability for the mass killings and secret burials carried out by the Sri Lankan military in Chemmani Jaffna during the late 1990s. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-28T16:51Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements
"🚨 Sri Lankan military fuelling drug crisis in Tamil homeland says Ponnambalam Tamil National Peoples Front (@TnpfOrg) leader and Jaffna District MP @GGPonnambalam has accused the Sri Lankan military of playing a central role in the spread of narcotics across the Tamil homeland warning that drug addiction has been deliberately fostered. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-28T17:25Z 45.5K followers, 1654 engagements
"🚨279706 children displaced across Sri Lanka from climate disasters UNICEF's report Weathering the Future: The Growing Crisis of Child Displacement in South Asia detailed that an estimated XXX per cent of its under-18 population was displaced between 2016 to 2022 due to climatic disaster events. Read more"
X Link @TamilGuardian 2025-10-28T18:07Z 45.5K followers, XXX engagements