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Jaffna University students pay tribute to Maaveerar

Students at the University of Jaffna paid tribute to those who gave their lives to the Tamil liberation struggle today. 

With the beginning of month of November, commemoration events have commenced to mark Maaveerar Naal.

The students gathered at the memorial located at the universty campus where they laid floral tributes to the fallen cadres. The memorial at the university has previously been vandalised and has been refurbished in recent years.

The plaque on the memorial reads,

“Oh you who sacrificed your precious lives

For our country’s dawn of freedom”

Maaveerar Naal - or Great Heroes Day - remembers those who sacrificed their lives in the Tamil struggle for freedom, and is marked on November 27, in memory of the first death of a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadre, Lt. Shankar who died in combat on November 27, 1982. 

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