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The Test: Chemmani and Sri Lanka’s Accountability Crisis
October 16, 2025 The full briefing in English is available for download here The Discovery of Chemmani Mass-grave and Its Significance In February 2025, skeletal remains were discovered during construction at Chemmani, Jaffna. During 54 days of excavation, 240 remains were recovered, including those of children, toddlers, and infants. More than 90% had no clothing…
Condemning the Surveillance, Harassment, and Intimidation of Journalist Kumanan Kanapathipillai
3rd of October 2025 We, the undersigned, condemn Sri Lankan authorities’ continuing surveillance, harassment, and intimidation of Kumanan Kanapathipillai, a prominent Tamil photojournalist from Mullaithivu. Kumanan has, for more than a decade, reported on and documented human rights violations committed by various actors in the Northern and Eastern Provinces (North-East); thereby playing a proactive role…
RELEASE: A Phantom that is Real- Persisting Culture of Surveillance and Intimidation in the North – East
The Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) is releasing its latest report titled, ‘A Phantom that is Real: Persisting Culture of Surveillance and Intimidation in the North-East’. This report sheds light on the prevailing patterns of surveillance, intimidation, and arrests that activists, civil society members, and journalists face in the North-East of Sri Lanka, and is one…
16 Years On: No Change to the Culture of Impunity
18 May 2025 On this day that marks 16 years since the end of the armed conflict, we commemorate all the lives that perished during the armed conflict, particularly the thousands of innocent Tamil civilians killed in the Sri Lankan State’s genocidal execution of the final phase of the conflict. Even after 16 years, the…
‘Stories of Mullivaikkal’ & ‘Yet Whom Do They Destroy’
Book Launch: Colombo, 6 November 2024 The Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) has released two books that focus on two of the most turbulent periods in contemporary Tamil polity. The ‘Stories of Mullivaikkal’ records the lived experience and resilience of the survivors of the final phase of the armed conflict, while ‘Yet Whom Do…
15 Years of Impunity, Persecution and Fight for Justice
18 May 2024 This May 18th, marking 15 years since the end of the armed conflict, we commemorate all the lives lost during the war, particularly the tens of thousands of Tamils killed in the genocide during the final stages. 15 years on from the end of the war, impunity persists, and future prospects of…
Joint Civil Society – Persisting Denial of the Right to Truth, Memory and Memorialisation Joint Civil Society –
14 May 2024 The week leading up to the 18th of May is commemorated as ‘Mullivaikkal Week’, where Tamils across the North-East memorialize the lives lost during the ruthless and inhumane executions by the Sri Lankan State during the final phase of the armed conflict. Such actions have raised concern to countless violations of international…
Statement: Impunity persists for Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka
Jaffna, Sri Lanka – On this International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance, we stand in solidarity with the Families of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka, most of whom were disappeared by the Sri Lankan state and whose disappearances have yet to be accounted for. Fourteen years since the end of the armed conflict, the…