While majority of Eezham Tamils boycotted celebrations of the so-called Independence Day of genocidal Sri Lanka in the North and East, a section of struggle-centric politicians among the Northern Provincial Council members, civic members, people fighting for de-militarisation of the North-East, families of enforced-disappeared at the hands of the Sri Lankan military and the uprooted people in Mullaiththeevu district, particularly at Keappaa-pulavu and Puthukkudiyiruppu stepped up their protests on February 04, 2017 proclaiming the day as Black Day. In Jaffna, SL police attempted to block a protest without success. TamilNet Report: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=38573 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nSgtIT3bHI

Kurdish activist Memed Aksoy in UK urges greater solidarity among oppressed nations. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3oiHvYn7Ks

The SL Military and the Police were allowing the Sinhala colonists to lay siege to the District Secretariat in Mullaiththeevu on Monday. However, they were harassing four Tamil protesters, who met a small group of foreign journalists at Keappaa-pulavu in Vanni on the same day. “The checkpoint was not there when we started the meeting. However, after 25 minutes, the checkpoint was hurriedly put up near the protest site and the four of us, as well as the journalists talking to us, were thoroughly checked at the post. The SL military knows us very well as we have been staging the protest along the street near the military camp for 807 days,” Chandraleela Simidkasan, a leader of protesting Tamil women at Keappaa-pulavu said on Tuesday. TamilNet Report: https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=39448 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHnH_czyqIA

Uprooted families of 300-year-old settlement of the twin-islands of Ira'nai-theevu, situated 12 nautical miles west of Muzhangkaavil in the Palk Strait are staging a continuous struggle demanding resettlement and access to their native islands from where they have been uprooted. The islands are now occupied by the Sinhala Navy. TamilNet Report: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=38706 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Avm9fSRFoA