The celebration of martyrdom is a key driver of terrorist recruitment and indoctrination. Don’t let a repetition of the past happen. Commemorating Thileepan in Colombo, a city that had been through ...

The Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court and the Maligakanda Magistrate’s Courts yesterday (19) prohibited events planned in Colombo to commemorate LTTE member Thileepan. The Colombo Fort Magistrate’s ...

The Trincomalee Magistrate’s Court yesterday (26) prohibited the commemoration of LTTE cadre ‘Thileepan’ who died on 26 Sept., 1987, during a fast against the IPKF. The court order came as several ...

September 26th is of particular significance to a substantial number of Sri Lankan Tamils. For it was on this day in 1987 that a senior member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Thileepan ...

Colombo, September 17: The commemoration of the 33 rd.Anniversary of the fast-unto-death of the Tamil Tiger hero Thileepan this year has become an issue in Sri Lankan politics. It has the potential to ...

What they would not do themselves, their people have made the Northern Tamil polity to do it. By handing down what could be described as a 'fractured verdict, though in a limited meaning of the term, ...

Thousands of fighting cadres of the LTTE fasted on Monday in memory of the "martyrdom" of Lt Col Thileepan, who fasted unto death in September 1987, on a five-point charter of demands addressed to ...

Normalcy in many districts of North affected today due to a hartal campaign called by Tamil political parties and civil society groups condemning government decision to ban commemorative events to ...

The entire North and East of Sri Lanka was paralysed by a mass protest campaign (hartal) on September 28, against the right-wing government of President Gotabhaya Rajapakse. This was triggered by ...