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A memorial sculpture, commemorating Tamils who died in the war, has been unveiled in the German town of Essen, in North-Rhine Westphalia state.
Hundreds of German Tamils attended the unveiling ceremony in a cemetery in the Essen suburb of Fulerum on Saturday, two days after Maveerar Naal was held in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle.
The sculpture is made up of a large flame lily, the national flower of Tamil Eelam, on top of a plinth, which has the names of 27 Thuyilam Ilam (Tamil war cemeteries) and their locations in Tamil Eelam engraved in them. The front of the plinth has the words “Damit wir niemals vergessen” (Lest we forget) engraved, both in German and in Tamil.
Small pieces of gravestones, collected at the ruins of the original war cemeteries, destroyed by the Sri Lankan government, and smuggled from the island by Tamils, have been attached next to each of the names.
Monument for Tamil war dead to be erected in Germany (25 November 2014)
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