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| The partially damaged memorial of Thiyagi Thileepan near Nallur Kandaswamy temple, Jaffna |
Jaffna Magistrate Courts turned down a police request to issue an order banning commemoration events to remember Thiyagi Thileepan.
When the application was taken up for hearing yesterday, the Court noted that an Extraordinary Gazette notification was issued in 2011 banning the usage of symbols belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam but not the war dead.
Earlier, Jaffna Police made the application to the Court on September 13 seeking the Court’s directive to prohibit any commemorative or remembrance activities saying attempts are being made to remember terrorists.
The Court also noted that local communities organized such commemoration events for the last thirteen years and there were no steps by either the President, Prime Minister or Minister in Charge of Public Security to prevent them in the past. “Therefore police seeking to ban those events is not acceptable,”
Since September 15, several commemoration events have been held by local communities and youth groups across the two provinces and will continue till September 26.
Earlier this week, Thigai Thileepan’s 37th remembrance ceremony was marked at the partially damaged memorial located near Nallur Kandaswamy temple kovil, Jaffna and similar type of ceremonies were planned across the region.
Known by the nom de guerre Thileepan, Rasaiah Parthipan, one time Jaffna Commander of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) died while on fast unto death campaign in 1987 demanding Tamil peoples' rights and urged India to keep its assurances it made at that time. (Northeastern Monitor/ September 19/2024)
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