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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Military harasses civil society working on Mullivaikkaal commemoration efforts
08 May 2017
Over
the past few days, multiple military officials have harassed a civil
society worker helping memorialization efforts of Mullivaikkaal. With
the help of the local community, the civil society worker has been
carving the names of those who were killed in the last phase of the war
onto stones which they plan to turn into a memorial for May 18th.
A
civil society actor involved with the project told Tamil Guardian, "How
can we talk about good governance when there isn't even space to
commemorate those who were killed 8 years after the war?"
Noting
that this phenomenon of repressing memorialization was nothing new he
added, "people cannot be expected to participate in reconciliation
processes when they still don't have the space to remember and mourn
those who were killed."