TNA MP M. A. Sumanthiran called on the Sri Lankan government to allow the Tamil people of the North-East to commemorate Maaveerar Naal, in a speech in parliament today.
Mr Sumanthiran highlighted the Sri Lankan government’s desecration of LTTE cemeteries under the previous regime, with thousands of graves destroyed.
“Relatives of LTTE cadres have a right to remember them in the month of November,” said the TNA MP. “Allow people to remember their heroes this week,” he added.
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Mr Sumanthiran’s speech comes as posters appeared in Jaffna and Vavuniya last week, commemorating the day that Tamils across the world mourn their war dead.
Last year, events took place in the North-East in secret, amid heavy military deployment and a warning issued by the military spokesperson that any act of remembrance would be viewed as the terrorist act. The military ordered that no temple or church bells should toll on November 27.
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