Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 January 2025. The octogenarian six-footer suffered a brain concussion after a ...

Senior Tamil politician Mavai Senathirajah, a key figure in the long political struggle for the rights of Tamils in Sri Lanka’s north and east, passed away on Wednesday (January 29, 2025) after a ...

Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) Jaffna district commander Sathasivamillai Krishnakumar alias “Col”Kittu was regarded as the uncrowned king of Jaffna in the mid-eighties of the twentieth ...

In the first part of this article on Sathasivampillai Krishnakumar alias “Col”Kittu published last week in the “Daily Mirror”, I had written about my interviewing the LTTE Jaffna district commander ...

The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka has expressed its profound sorrow at the passing away last Sunday of one of its erstwhile members, Victor Ivan. Ivan was at the time a frontline member of the Free ...

The Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP ) was a specialized military intelligence unit of the Sri Lankan army that was deployed by the state against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) ...

The 16th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on 8 January, will be marked with a service at his graveside. Family, friends ...

Memories of the 33 year long war between the armed forces of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) are slowly receding nowadays. The LTTE ,known generally as the tigers, was formed ...