Lankan war memorial at Prabhakaran’s death site

(Express Buzz, 11 12 2009) - In an act of tremendous political-military significance, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday ceremonially opened a national war memorial at Pudumattalaan, near the site where LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed.

The memorial is located near the mangroves in Nanthikadal lagoon where Prabhakaran fell to the bullets of the Sri Lankan forces in the third week on May. The “Victory Monument” was unveiled before a galaxy of military officers. More …

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One Response to “Lankan war memorial at Prabhakaran’s death site”

MR - December 12th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Has Rajapakse had any feelings for the 30,000 innocent citizens of Sri Lanka who died in the war in May 2009?

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McDonagh on Sri Lanka
at the British Labor Party
conference

"Next time you want to buy underwear from Marks & Spencer, you want to buy a t-shirt from Next, you want to go on a holiday of a lifetime in a beautiful island off the coast off India - Do you really want to spend your money on a government that chooses to lock 300,000 people up behind barbed-wire.

A country that is the most dangerous in the world to be a journalist.

A country where we can see on Channel 4 News, young men, naked and bound shot at close range.

Is that what we want for our money, for our democracy?

I ask you to not only support the emergency resolution on Sri Lanka but to use your money and not prop up that government,"

Damilvany Gnanakumar
witnessed the bloody conflict
from a Vanni hospital