Tamil Eelam Heroes’ Day 2009: Videos & photos

(New York, 29 11 2009) - Thousands of Tamils in several world capitals this weekend attended Maveerar Day events, an annual remembrance for the fallen Tamil Eelam heroes.

The Maveerar day commemorations began with a minute of silence for all those who lost their lives in the national struggle for self determination. It was followed by the lighting of lamps in memory of the fallen heroes and all those who lost their lives in the decade’s long military struggle. The events were marked with songs in praise of the fallen heroes and dramas relating the sufferings of the people during the Mullivaikal conflict.

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Tamil Eelam Heroes' Day 2009:
Videos & photos

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