On the 10th Re­mem­brance Day, at its head­quar­ters in Chen­nai, the pro-Tamil party Naam Tami­lar Katchi, in the pres­ence of party leader See­man and party ac­tivists, paid re­spects and homage to Ee­lam Tamils who were killed in the Tamil geno­cide per­pe­trated against them in Sri Lanka.  

See­man-led Naam Tami­lar Katchi re­mem­bered the mar­tyr­dom of thou­sands of Ee­lam Tamils bru­tally killed in the fi­nal phase of the Ee­lam Tamil war of in­de­pen­dence with Sri Lanka which ended with the death of Ee­lam Tamil lead­ers on 18 May 2009.

While the Tamil pop­u­la­tion in Sri Lanka still con­tin­ues to reel un­der the tute­lage of the Sin­halese lead­er­ship of Bud­dhist Sri Lanka, the Tamil Di­as­pora has not for­got­ten the mar­tyrs nor the per­pe­tra­tors.  From Chen­nai to On­tario, Tamils have paid trib­utes to those killed in the Sri Lanka geno­ci­dal war against Ee­lam Tamils in the North and East of Sri Lanka.

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Naam Tami­lar Katchi has men­tioned in its state­ment that “the gov­ern­ment of Sri Lanka in­dulged in war crimes that this world has never seen. Banned clus­ter bombs were used, chem­i­cal weapons were used on civil­ian tar­gets. No fire zones, hos­pi­tals were re­peat­edly bombed and sur­ren­dered civil­ians were mas­sa­cred.”

Speak­ing ex­clu­sively to The World Sikh News, See­man said, “Hu­man­i­tar­ian and hu­man rights agen­cies were de­nied ac­cess to the war zone and an en­tire race of peo­ple were an­ni­hi­lated by the bru­tal Sri Lankan forces.” 

“The in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity was caught un­awares and still, no jus­tice has been done”, he added.

The hege­mony of Lankan Govt con­tin­ues even to­day with sys­tem­atic eth­nic cleans­ing against which the Tamils are stag­ing peace­ful protests.

In his state­ment to the me­dia, See­man con­demned the ac­tiv­i­ties of Sri Lankan Gov­ern­ment and called for peo­ple to re­visit his­tory and re­mem­ber those who mar­tyred for their moth­er­land fight­ing against the despotic armed forces of the Sri Lankan gov­ern­ment.