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| Photographs Uthayan |
Residents in Mannar launched a silent protest on Monday calling on the international community to investigate war crimes in Sri Lanka, whilst also highlighting a number of pressing concerns: calling for political prisoners to be released, for the missing to be returned and for the military occupation of the Tamil homeland to end.
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Wearing pieces of black cloth across their mouths, women and men marched through Mannar holding photographs of missing loved ones, and carrying banners and placards with a number of demands relating to key issues.
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"International community, investigate war crime," read some banners, whilst others questioned the military occupation: "Why the heavy military presence in the North?".
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"We want our children back", "Speed up the investigation into enforced disappearances" and "Where are our children?" read banners carried by mothers.
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