NPC Councillors S Shivajilingam and S Sajeevan led Maaveerar Naal commemorations outside the headquarters of the military's 51 Division - formerly the site of an LTTE cemetery.
The cemetery was destroyed in 1995 and rebuilt by the LTTE during the ceasefire, before the Sri Lankan state again bulldozed the graves in 2010, to build the army camp on its remains.
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