Local #Tamils assisted by regional politicians push back yet another bid to legalize the appropriation of the LTTE martyr’s cemetery in Alampil, #Mullaitivu to #SriLanka military’s 10th Battalion of the Sinha Regiment that is already occupying the land.

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At the Ceylon Teachers Union #MayDay rally in #Jaffna , demanding to repeal the Online Safety Act (OSA) that stifles freedom of expression, General Secretary Joseph Stalin highlights the arrest of #Tamils on social media platforms long before #SriLanka adopted such intrusive laws.

இலங்கை இனப்பிரச்சினைக்கு அரசியல் தீர்வு, அடக்குமுறைச் சட்டங்களை அகற்றுதல், கல்வியாளர்களின் கலந்தாலோசனை இன்றி வகுக்கப்பட்ட புதிய கல்விக் கட்டமைப்பை அகற்றுதல் உள்ளிட்ட கோரிக்கைகளை முன்வைத்து ஜோசப் ஸ்டாலின் தலைமையில் இலங்கை ஆசிரியர் சங்கம் யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில் மேதினத்தை நடத்துகிறது.

On the eve of #InternationalLabourDay , while announcing a higher minimum wage for #SriLanka ’s tea and rubber plantation workers who have been demanding a decent salary to meet the skyrocketing cost of living the government calls for objections for its proposal within two weeks.

ආර්ථික අහේනිය නිසා රටේ දරුවන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපනය හරි අඩකටත් වඩා කඩාකප්පල් වී ඇති බවට ලංකා ගුරු සංගමය ආණ්ඩුවේම සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛනවලින් පෙන්වා දෙයි.
“යුනිසෙෆ් වාර්තාව ලංකාවේ දරුවෝ තමයි දකුණු ආසියාවේ වැඩිම මන්දපෝෂණයෙන් පෙළෙන්නේ කිව්වම ඒ වාර්තාව බොරු කිව්වා. ඒ බොරු කියපු කෙනා අද බන්ධනාගාරේ ඉන්නේ”

'A democratic civilian rule
Wages compatible with inflation'

Four trade unions representing #lka Free Trade Zone workers, seafarers and non-academic university staff aligning as the Independent Trade Unions Joint Committee held their #InternationalWorkersDay rally in Colombo.

Ceylon Teachers Union led by Joseph Stalin held their #InternationalWorkersDay rally in #Jaffna with demands including a political solution to #SriLanka 's ethnic problem, removing oppressive laws and getting rid of the new education framework devised without consulting educators

“229 parents in search of their loved ones have passed away. We too are on the streets with a bottle of water & medicines in hand uncertain when our time would come. The international is biding its time and weakening our struggle”

Yogarasa Kanagaranjini, #Kilinochchi , #SriLanka

“Tomorrow is #MayDay focusing on the rights of workers. Our relatives who were abducted and disappeared were workers. Our struggle is to find them”

Sivananthan Jenita in #Vavuniya on the 2627th day of the ongoing protest of relatives of #Tamils forcibly disappeared in #SriLanka .

படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்ட ஊடகவியலாளர் 'மாமனிதர்' தர்மரத்தினம் சிவராமின் 19ஆவது ஆண்டு நினைவேந்தல் நிகழ்வும், இலங்கையில் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்ட ஊடகவியலாளர்களுக்கு நீதி கோரிய போராட்டமும் மட்டக்களப்பில் அமைந்துள்ள படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்ட ஊடகவியலாளர்கள் நினைவுத்தூபியில் இடம்பெற்றது.

Recommendations on delays in disciplinary action in #SriLanka police handed over to police chief Deshabandhu Tennakoon, who is yet to be disciplined as directed by the supreme court over violating the fundamental rights of a detainee through illegal arrest, detention and torture.

Families of the disappeared in #Vavuniya , on the 2625th day of their ongoing protest in search of the truth about their loved ones, remember Dharmeratnam Sivaram killed 19 years ago who used his TamilNet website to report on #SriLanka 's war and its devastating effect on civilians

“The south is particularly silent about problems of the Tamils. The media in the south is silent. Political groups in the south are silent.”

At the Dharmeratnam Sivaram memorial in Batticaloa, doubts over justice by opposition aiming for power with the help of ex army top brass.

Great story by Namini Wijedasa - but who is the Major arrested and those locally behind the recruitment, praying on #srilankans now vulnerable after economic crisis?

சந்தேக நபர்களை இரண்டு முறை யோசிக்காமல் சுடுமாறு பொலிஸாரை அறிவுறுத்திய பொலிஸுக்குப் பொறுப்பான அமைச்சர் - அவரது பதவியில் இருந்து நீக்கப்படாவிட்டால், உள்ளூர் மற்றும் சர்வதேச மட்ட சட்ட நடவடிக்கைக்கு செல்வது குறித்து இலங்கையின் உயர்மட்ட சட்டத்தரணிகள் அமைப்பு எச்சரித்துள்ளது.

இலங்கை அரசியல் அமைப்பின் 13ஆவது திருத்தம் 'தொடரும்' எனஅதனை தோற்கடிக்க ஆயுதம் ஏந்திய அரசியல் கட்சிக்கு தலைமை தாங்கும் Anura Kumara Dissanayake தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.

'பல வருட கோரிக்கையின் பின்னர் கிடைத்த வெற்றியாக மாகாண சபையை தமிழர்கள் நினைக்கிறார்கள்' என அவர் குறிப்பிடுகின்றார்.

#Tamil journalists in #Jaffna remember Tamilnet founding editor Dharmeratnam Sivaram abducted & killed 19 years ago during rule of Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge, & journalist Selvarajah Rajivarnam gunned down 2 years later when Mahinda Rajapaksa was president of #SriLanka .