Marking Sri Lanka’s Independence Day, French Tamils established a genocide exhibition in front of the French National Assembly to raise awareness of the Tamil genocide.
This protest comes as Families of the Disappeared in Jaffna and Vavuniya defied court bans to launch protests and hunger strikes demanding to know what happened to their loved ones. These protests are on Sri Lanka’s Independence Day which protesters have referred to as a “black day”.
Tamils across the North-East are participating in a walk for justice from "‘Pottuvil to Polikandi" to demand that the United Nations and international community heed Tamil calls for justice and accountability.
The march has been endorsed by all Tamil political parties, as well as by Tamil and Muslim civil society organisations and Muslim leaders. The campaign has been met with a brutal crackdown from the Sri Lankan state, with troops and police disrupting and threatening marchers.
Read more here: Pottuvil to Polikandi - Tamils brave crackdown to begin marching length of homeland
