Jayasuriya further added that the LLRC reported no deliberate targeting of civilians by the army during the war and praised the army’s role in developing the country as “peacetime troops”.

Speaking on a state-run radio station, the Sri Lankan Army Commander defended criticisms, claiming that only three army camps were currently present in the Jaffna Peninsula and added that “foreigners have no right to decide where the army camps of this country should be maintained”.

Over 500 Australian Tamils gathered in Melbourne on Saturday to remember the victims of the Mullivaikkal massacre, 4 years on.

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Over 100 Tamils gathered in Stockholm to mark the 4th anniversary of the Mullivaikal massacre on Saturday.

"This week we join our friends in Canada’s Tamil-Canadian community in observing the fourth anniversary of the end of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka."

Australian Parliamentarian Don Nardella

An exhibition in Melbourne, detailing the Tamil genocide, was attended by over one hundred people.

Don Nardella, Member of Parliament for the Australian Labor Party and secretary to the leader of the opposition spoke at the event and said the exhibition will open the eyes of the Australian people, and Steve Campbell of the Democratic Labor Party called on the organisers of the event to take the exhibition across Australia.