Mullivaikkal remembered three years on

Defying military, students remember May 18th at Jaffna Uni (18 May)

Jaffna student leader attacked before remembrance event (18 May)

Posters of resistance emerge at Jaffna uni (16 May)

Address by Tamil Youth Organisation UK (TYO-UK) (19 May):

“Three years on, May 18th defines precisely what cannot be reconciled. As we remain confounded by our nation’s collective loss, the Sinhala nation praises its government and celebrates its military. What the Eelam Tamil nation calls genocide, the Sinhala nation calls ‘victory’. And so, on a day like today, as we remember May 18th at Mullivaikkaal, we are ever more resolved that our nation’s security, the island’s peace and the region’s stability lie in Tamil Eelam.”

Address by the British Tamil Forum (19 May):

"It is in this climate of unbridled state terrorism by the Sri Lankan state, we are gathered here. To remind ourselves; to remind the world, that we will not forget what was done to our people. We will not abandon our people. We will not let the international community abandon our people."

Canadian Tamil youth look to the future as they remember (17 May)

"The Tamils have endured not only well documented examples of violent persecution with the consequence of physical genocide but also a slower and deliberate scheme aimed at destroying their culture and livelihood. The protracted genocide of the Tamils today is carried out through a brutal military occupation and a deliberate program of Sinhala settlements."

Statement by Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) (15 May)

"May 2009 brought Tamils around the world unprecedented anguish and tragedy as the 27 year long brutal ethnic conflict came to a disastrous end. The month of May will always be etched in the memory of Tamils around the world for generations to come as more than 40,000 Tamils were massacred during the final stages"      

Events across Tamil Nadu mark Mullivaikkal massacre (19 May)

Statement by GTF and TGTE (18 May)