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The Tamil National People's Front commemorated Maaveerar Naal at an event in Jaffna on Friday.
Members of the party, including General Secretary Selvarajah Kajendran, participated in the event.
A remembrance flame was lit at precisely 18:05 local time, the exact time the first LTTE fighter died on this day in 1982.
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