Tamils in Point Pedro, Jaffna, commemorated the victims of the Mullivaikkal genocide today. 

The British High Commission in Colombo on Monday (May 18) issued a statement marking 17 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, stressing the need for truth, justice and accountability as families across the island continue searching for missing loved ones.

In a Facebook post shared on May 18, the British mission said,

All photographs by Uthayarasa Shalin

Thousands of Tamils gathered at Mullivaikkal commemoration ground this morning to mark Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day. 

The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) distributed kanji in Urumpirai, Jaffna, to commemorate Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day. 

The event was held in front of a statue of Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran, the first Tamil to die in the liberation struggle. 

Thousands of people paid tribute to victims of the Tamil Genocide on Sunday at Besant Nagar Beach in Chennai, as politicians, activists and members of the public gathered to honour the memory of Tamils killed during the Mullivaikkal genocide.

British Tamils in Southend-on-Sea and Liverpool held memorial events yesterday to mark 17 years since the Mullivaikkal Tamil genocide and remembered the tens of thousands of their friends and family massacred by the Sri Lankan state in May 2009.

A Tamil Genocide Day Remembrance event was held in Vavuniya as part of ongoing commemorations marking the 17th anniversary of the Mullivaikkal genocide, with members of the public gathering to honour those killed during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009.

A remembrance event was held in Mannar this morning to remember the Tamils that were massacred in Mullivaikkal in 2009. 

Flowers were laid for the victims of the Tamil genocide and Mullivaikkal Kanji was prepared and distributed. 

To mark 17 years since the Sri Lankan military onslaught that massacred tens of thousands of Tamils, we revisit the final days leading up to the 18th of May 2009 – a date remembered around the world as ‘Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day’. 

MP Thurairajah Ravikaran paid floral tribute at Nandikadal Lagoon marking the 17th anniversary of the Tamil genocide.

A commemorative event marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the 50th anniversary of the Vaddukoddai Resolution was held in Switzerland on 10 May under the theme “Unyielding Courage and Defiant Resurgence.”

A community sports event organised by the Netherlands Tamil Women’s Organisation was held in Limburg, the Netherlands, on May 9 to commemorate the 38th remembrance of Annai Poopathy.

Tamils gathered in Maravanpulavu, Jaffna, today to eat Mullivaikkal Kanji to remember what victims and victim-survivors of the 2009 genocide endured.