Occupied Tamil Eelam marks Heroes' Day indoors, SL military detains seminary principal

[TamilNet, Friday, 27 November 2020, 16:44 GMT]
The Police of the occupying state of genocidal Sri Lanka detained a Tamil Catholic priest, S. Baskaran, who is the principal of St. Martin’s Seminary while conducting Tamil Eelam Heroes’ Day remembrance at the entrance of the seminary, located near the Bishop’s House in Jaffna. Amidst tightened harassment from the SL military and the police against public remembrance events, the people and their political representatives resolvedly and emotionally marked the commemoration lighting flames of sacrifice inside their premises. The mobilisation for indoor remembrance has drawn the attention of the younger generation of Tamils like never before in the post-2009 context, journalists in Jaffna said. All the occupying Sinhala soldiers and the police personnel were deployed in the public places, junctions and along the road everywhere, reminding the people the level of military occupation.

The SL Army soldiers opened fire when they spotted a group of youth entering E'l'lang-ku'lam Tamil Eelam Heroes’ Cemetery (Maaveerar thuyilum illam) in Vadamaraadchi on Friday evening.

At Koappaay, where the demolished and SL military occupied main Maaveerar Thuyilum Illam in Jaffna is situated, there were three layers of different types of roadblocks witnessed by the journalists. The SL military intelligence operatives chased the journalists who went there.

Occupying Colombo was using its judiciary to issue interim injunctions against organising or taking part in Tamil Eelam Heroes’ Day remembrance. The SL Police approached all the courts across the eight districts in the North and East to issue temporary orders against named political activists.

The SL Police was referring to the remembrance event as an activity of supporting terrorism by getting the SL courts to issue the injunctions as well as the so-called Prevention Of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act (No. 48 of 1979) - Section 15.

The injunctions were listing a long list of prohibited activities, which included among others from the use of photos of LTTE war dead to the national symbols of Eezham Tamils as declared by the Tigers.

Furthermore, the SL judiciary was also applying a range of other legal provisions such as Section 79(2) and 79(3) of Police Ordinance No. 16 of 1865 and the so-called “International Covenant On Civil and Political Rights Act 56 of 2007” Section 3(1) and 3(2) as well as the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance No 3 of 1897.

However, the grassroots activists and the politicians actively staged indoor events as well as lighting flames of sacrifice within the premises of their residences and offices.



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