Police threaten action over LTTE commemoration
November 26, 2015 05:30 pm
Police today warned against organising events eulogising the LTTE after posters commemorating the Heroes’ Day tomorrow surfaced in the country’s Tamil-dominated North.
“Commemorating a terrorist organisation will not be allowed,” police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.
During the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s 30-year campaign November 27 was celebrated as Heroes’ Day (Maaveerar Naal) to mark the death of the outfit’s first cadre Shankar in 1982.
Responding to appearance of posters in Jaffna University premises calling for events marking Heroes’ Day, Gunasekera said the police will take legal action against those involved.
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who oversaw the military campaign that crushed the LTTE in 2009, said that the government must take action to prevent the commemorations.
“I have information that there are plans to commemorate the day and re-visit the Eelam (a separate Tamil state) demand. It will be the government’s duty to stop that,” he said.
Rajapaksa accused the government of Maithripala Sirisena of going soft on LTTE supporters. He also criticised the release of some LTTE supporters by the government recently. (PTI)
-Agencies
