Sri Lankan police officers on Sunday commenced spot checks of vehicles travelling on the A9 in Maankulam, one week ahead of Tamil National Remembrance Day (Maaveerar Naal). 

Vehicles were searched and occupants questioned. 

The member of the Northern Provincial Council, M K Shivajilingam on Monday called on Tamils to remember the sacrifice of Tamils who fought in the struggle and commemorate Tamil National Remembrance Day (Maaveerar Naal) by providing assistance to their families. 

"Maaverar Vaaram (Tamil National Remembrance Week) has begun today," Mr Shivajilingam said. 
 
“In this situation, everyone should come forward to provide livelihood assistance to the families of Maaveerar who are living in the midst of great misery and poverty."

Kilinochchi residents have continued to clear up the LTTE cemetery at Kanagapuram, recovering more headstones and monuments.

Parents of fallen LTTE cadres were honoured in Kilinochchi on Tuesday.

The first day of Maaveerar week, the week leading up to the Tamil national remembrance day of Maaveerar Naal, was marked at Mullaitivu's Vannivilankulam LTTE cemetery on Tuesday.

Students at the University of Jaffna marked the beginning of Tamil National Remembrance Week today, ahead of Maaveerar Naal on November 27. 

A lamp by the memorial for Lt. Col. Thileepan was lit at 18:05 local time. 
 

The chief minister of the Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran said it was "understandable" the NPC's education minister refused to hoist the Sri Lankan flag due to the Sinhala Buddhist supremacist ideology of successive governments. 

Stating that he would not have refused to hoist the flag himself, Mr Wigneswaran said however that he expressed his resistance against Sinhala hegemony in other ways. 

A Catholic shrine in Jaffna was attacked on November 14, with the statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus being removed from the shrine and destroyed. 

The attack on the shrine is among a series of attacks on Hindu and Christian places of worship across the North-East in recent months.

Two Hindu shrines were attacked in Mannar last week by unknown persons, with the statues of Pillaiyar ripped from the shrine and thrown into shrubbery. 

Members of the Northern Provincial Council adorned Gloriosa Lilies (Kaathikai Poo) and planted trees earlier this month ahead of Tamil National Remembrance Day on November 27.