Students at the University of Jaffna marked Maaveerar Naal (Tamil national remembrance day) on November 27, following on from the remembrance event which took place two days earlier. 

As many joined their families to attend large-scale events taking place at formerly destroyed LTTE thuyilum illams (LTTE resting homes), some students at the University of Jaffna lit lamps and lay flowers by the monument commemorating those 'who had sacrified their lives for freedom'. The monument was initially erected in November 2006, however was vandalised by Sri Lankan security forces. 

Paramilitary leader and former Sri Lankan minister Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan (alias Karuna) was arrested on Tuesday by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) over the misuse of a bullet proof vehicle. 

According to reports, Karuna was arrested after being requested to give a statement at the FCID. 

Tamils in Myanmar commemorated Maaveerar Naal at an event in the nation's largest city Yangon.

The event, organised by the Tamil Youth Association, saw participation by many second and third generation Burmese Tamils.

American Tamils in several states marked Maaveerar Naal with events in their localities.

Commemoration events took place across the US, including in Boston, the DC metro area, Florida, San Francisco, North Carolina and New York City.

Events saw participants lay flowers and light candles at pictures of fallen combatants, shrines or replica tombstones. Cultural performances were conducted and speeches were made, including by NPC Councillor Ananthy Sasitharan in Virginia.

The chair of the British All Party Parliamentary Group For Tamils called on Sri Lanka to allow the Tamil community to publically mark Maaveerar Naal annually, without intimidation or harrassment from Sri Lankan security forces.

In a statement released to mark Tamil National Remembrance Day, parliamentarian James Berry said “remembrance is a vital tool in healing and reconciling communities traumatised by conflict”. “It is also an important element of transitional justice, because there can be no true reconciliation without proper accountability,” he added.

Sri Lanka’s president has written to US President-elect Donald Trump in the hope of pressuring the United States to stop pursuing accountability for war crimes committed by Sri Lankan troops.

“I will write to President (Donald) Trump to ask him to free us from these accusations,” the New Indian Express reported Maithripala Sirisena telling a  Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) membership drive in Galle.

Thousands of Tamils marked Maaveerar Naal in the UK on Sunday, November 27th. 

Tamils in Amparai laid karthigaipoo, lamps and the Tamil Eelam national flag in their commemoration of Maaveerar Naal.

Over 200 students at Eastern University commemorated Maaveerar Naal at the Vantharumoolai campus in Batticaloa and the Swami Vipulananda Institute in Kalladi on Saturday.

Mirroring their counterparts at the University of Jaffna, students lit candles and lamps in memory of those who gave their lives to the Tamil struggle. 

Tamils across the North-East marked Maaveerar Naal by gathering at the site of destroyed LTTE cemeteries across the North-East, where they collected broken gravestones and held memorial events to remember cadres that lost their lives in the struggle for liberation.