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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 58m

The man whose lawsuit has kept ITAK's elected president out of office for nearly two years now says he'll drop the case — but only on one condition. #ITAK www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/man...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 9h

Can Xue tops Ladbrokes' Nobel odds at 10/1 — but no favourite is priced as strongly as last year's winner. Who's in the running? #Nobel2026 www.jaffnamonitor.com/can-xue-lead...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 10h

The NPP promised to repeal the PTA. Sumanthiran says its replacement keeps the same powers — and he's launching a campaign to stop it. www.jaffnamonitor.com/sumanthiran-...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 11h

A ride from the bus junction to Katunayake airport costs 400 rupees by app. Some tuk-tuk drivers are charging 5,000. #JaffnaMonitor www.jaffnamonitor.com/rs-5-000-for...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 12h

A man lying on the railway tracks in Inuvil-Karaikal, headphones on, didn't hear the train coming. He survived — but at a devastating cost. www.jaffnamonitor.com/jaffna-man-l...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Weeks after going missing, Gnanasara Thero has been arrested at a forest monastery in Kalutara District after two courts issued warrants. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/pol...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A plumber who watches 'Air Crash Investigation' ended up gripping the controls of Flight 1073. Here's what happened in the cockpit. #Flydubai www.jaffnamonitor.com/inside-the-t...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nearly 20 empty Iranian tankers idle off Sri Lanka's coast, low on food, fuel and water. What happens next for crews caught in a sanctions standoff? #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/iranian-tank...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Five judges were picked from a bench of thirteen — but not by seniority. What criterion applied? Prof. G.L. Peiris examines 22A's constitutional fault lines. #22A www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/jud...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manickam Nedumaran, son of Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran, died in Melbourne after becoming a Buddhist monk. His parents cannot attend the funeral. #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/pazha-neduma...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Court of Appeal threw out Gotabaya Rajapaksa's bid to block a possible PTA arrest over the Easter Sunday attacks probe. What happens next? #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/court-of-app...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A cameraman was arrested after a security officer guarding Ranil Wickremesinghe accused him of striking him with a camera outside court. What happened in those seconds? #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/cameraman-ar...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

17 years after the war ended, land mines still keep thousands of families off their own land in the north. Japan just funded 47 more acres of clearance. www.jaffnamonitor.com/japan-gives-...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gnanasara Thero skipped his Court of Appeal hearing. Now there's a warrant for his arrest and a travel ban. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/court-orders...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Dutch-donated disaster-relief vehicle, a former minister's personal use of it, and a Supreme Court order few saw coming. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/supreme-cour...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Douglas Devananda demands Rs. 100 million from Uthayan over its report on his CID questioning. What exactly did the newspaper get wrong? www.jaffnamonitor.com/douglas-deva...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

23,270 counts. 547 witnesses. Three years of testimony. A Colombo court's Easter Sunday verdict explains how 15 men built the path to the bombings. www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/wha...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A former minister claims a man named Siyam is rebuilding Zahran Hashim's network in Kalmunai, days after acquittals in the Easter bombings case. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/zah...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rohana Wijeweera gets state tributes. Thileepan's bust gets removed by police at night. Shanakiyan Rasamanickam asks why the double standard. www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/sha...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eight months after an NPP MP allegedly assaulted a cyclone relief official, police still haven't decided whether to file charges. Why the delay? #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/eight-months...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why did the US spend five days training eight Sri Lankan agencies to detect nuclear smuggling at ports and sea? #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/u-s-trains-s...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Behind a Manipay clinic's calm reception room, 18 children are learning through play designed as therapy. What does that actually look like? www.jaffnamonitor.com/where-play-b...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once a fierce critic of “Indian expansionism,” Sri Lanka’s JVP is now building ties with Narendra Modi’s BJP. Its powerful general secretary, Tilvin Silva, is in New Delhi for meetings with senior Indian government and BJP leaders. www.jaffnamonitor.com/from-indian-...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jaffna's mayor says her council refused police demands for a written promise to remove the Thileepan bust. So who took it down before dawn? www.jaffnamonitor.com/who-removed-...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A predawn police operation removed a Thileepan statue in Jaffna. Now Tamil politicians are turning on each other over who set the trap. #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/thi...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vasudeva Nanayakkara now vows to defend the NPP government from a conspiracy he says is led by the wealthy. He once served in the cabinet named in the Pandora Papers. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/vasudeva-nan...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A Netflix rating war, an actor's ancestry, and a 25-year-old wound that Sri Lanka still hasn't healed. #Eelam www.jaffnamonitor.com/maitreyi-ram...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Sri Lankan Tamil man held by Britain for nearly 5 years on Diego Garcia was resettled in Eswatini months ago — an apparent world first. He is now dead. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/sri...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two men convicted in the Easter Sunday bombings case raised a single finger to the sky as they left court. That gesture has one owner in Sri Lanka. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/aft...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No South Asian series made the New York Times' 100 best TV shows of the century list. Which show topped it, and who voted? www.jaffnamonitor.com/breaking-bad...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

67 petitions, 12 hours of Supreme Court hearings, black-clad opposition MPs — and still 158 votes carried the judicial retirement amendment through Parliament. #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/sri...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Witnesses told police what happened inside a secret underground site at Trincomalee Naval Base, where two women sailors allegedly guarded and interrogated detainees. #JaffnaMonitor www.jaffnamonitor.com/navy-women-g...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Douglas Devananda spent 3.5 hours with the CID over Azad Maulana's claims about his early ties to Pillayan and Karuna. What did he dispute? #JaffnaMonitor www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/cid...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two ITAK letters to the president, two agendas. Why did Shritharan release his own — before the party's own letter went public? www.jaffnamonitor.com/shritharan-m...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

China's new envoy to Colombo invoked a 1952 rice-for-rubber deal to frame ties ahead of 70 years of diplomatic relations. What else did he pledge? #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/chinas-new-a...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

India says it could help save Anojan from death row in Saudi Arabia — but only after Colombo makes a formal request. Has it? www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/ind...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Statues of Gandhi, Buddha and Tamil poets were vandalised across eastern Sri Lanka years before Easter 2019. Police called it "anti-social elements." #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-easter-b...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why did Kandy's chief Buddhist prelate raise the tariff issue with the new U.S. envoy—and what more is he asking Washington for? #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/senior-buddh...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

IMDb has flagged 'unusual voting activity' after a Sinhala nationalist campaign pushed one-star ratings against Maitreyi Ramakrishnan's new film. What triggered the alert? #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/imdb-flags-u...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colombo High Court convicts 15 men over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 260 people; 9 others acquitted. Sentencing expected shortly. #SriLanka #EasterSundayAttacks www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/15-...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A year after the complaint, no well on Mandaitivu has been opened. The court has again pushed the excavation date, now to Nov. 10. #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/no-excavatio...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Northern Governor Vethanayahan enforced Certificate of Conformity rules on local businesses and used the issue to remove a Chavakachcheri official. His own Secretariat office now admits it has no such certificate. #Jaffna #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/northern-gov...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sri Lanka's AG has indicted ex-Eastern PC chief minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan (Pillayan) and three others in the 2006 abduction and killing of Eastern University VC Prof. Raveendranath. Charges untested at trial. #JaffnaMonitor #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/pil...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

ITAK's R. Shanakiyan was questioned for four hours by police over remarks on federalism, power-sharing and land rights in the North and East, following a complaint alleging his comments promoted separatism. He rejected the claim, citing a 2017 Supreme Cou www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/tam...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A Colombo court has ordered the arrest of a Hindu temple's chief priest accused of pawning temple gold nearly 90 times since 2024 to fund gambling, then quietly redeeming it before the losses were noticed. #SriLanka #Colombo www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lankan-p...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ali Sabry, Gammanpila, Sumanthiran & Wijenayake — political rivals for a decade — stood together against a Bill raising judges' retirement age mid-tenure. The Bar's objection isn't 67; it's timing that keeps one CJ in and another out. #SriLanka #JudicialR www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lankas-j...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

At the Court of Appeal, PC Sanjeewa Jayawardena, counsel for ex-intelligence chief Suresh Sallay, argued political and religious influence should not shape the Easter Sunday bombings probe. Case continues. #EasterSunday #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/sallays-coun...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

20 years after 17 aid workers were executed in Muttur, no one has been charged. A JM investigation traces how multiple inquiries failed to identify a perpetrator — and what the official timeline left out. #Muttur #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/how...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Jaffna Magistrate's Court has ordered Gotabaya Rajapaksa to give evidence via video link from Colombo on Sept. 29 in the Lalith-Kugan disappearance inquiry, unresolved since 2011. #Jaffna #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/jaffna-court...

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Jaffna Monitor @jaffnamonitor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

An Opinion piece by M.R. Narayan Swamy examines how the LTTE's culture of branding dissenters as "traitors" and eliminating rivals hollowed out Tamil political society long before its military defeat. #Jaffna #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/how-the-ltte...

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