2015: Protest in Chunnakam, Jaffna against the Uthuru Janani thermal power plant for dumping waste oil and grease deposits in the local well. 

As thousands of Tamils around the world commemorated the eleventh anniversary of the Mullivaikkal Genocide, marked on May 18, Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) joined in mourning the lives that were lost while also emphasising the lack of justice, in a statement released yesterday.  

Tamil students from City University in London created a video tribute for the Mullivaikkal genocide that occurred in 2009.

The video was posted yesterday to mark the May 18 massacre that was carried out by the Sri Lankan government against Tamils.

A 16 year old Mullivaikkal survivor, who was just 5 years old at the time of the massacres, shared their experiences of the genocide on the eleventh anniversary of the atrocities.

Pakaloan Vamanan now lives in France.

The following pieces are reflections from Tamil children who all survived the massacres at Mullivaikkal.

Eleven years later, they are telling their stories around the genocide they faced and are reclaiming the narrative.

They have all lost at least one family member during the massacres of 2009. All are now living in the diaspora.

Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa warned that he would withdraw his government from global bodies if attempts to prosecute Sri Lankan soldiers for war crimes are pursued.

German Tamils held a remembrance event for the approximately 70,000-140,000 Tamils killed during the Mullivaikkal massacres.

Marking the eleventh anniversary of the Mullivaikkal Massacre, People for Equality and Relief in Sri Lanka (PEARL) have released a statement mourning the loss of approximate 70-140,000 Tamils during the finals stages of the war but also maintaining that the “liberation struggle lives on”.

The collective trauma of Mullivaikkal

Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa said a “sense of pride and joy overwhelms me” as he marked 11 years since May 19, 2009, whilst Tamils around the world mourned the tens of thousands massacred by state forces.

A Mullivaikkal remembrance event, held by the leader of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), Selvam Adaikalanathan, took place at 6:15pm, yesterday.