Blog

The Tamil Liberation Struggle spearheaded by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE) was silenced by 20 countries in May 2009 at Mullivaaikkaal. 

Mullivaaikkaal is a small strip of land against the Eastern sea located in the Mullaitivu district, Northern Province of the island of Sri Lanka. It was the site of a “No Fire Zone” in the last stages of the Sri Lankan war while also being the site of a massacre of Tamils, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

1. The mass killings prompted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a panel of experts to report on the scale of the killings.
2. According to the UN internal review report (Petrie Report – November 2012), the experts stated that “[a] number of credible sources have estimated that there could have been as many as 40,000 civilian deaths”. Other sources have referred to credible information indicating that over 70,000 people are unaccounted for.
3. The late Reverend Dr. Rayappu Joseph, Catholic Bishop of Mannar, testified to a government Commission that 146,679 Tamils were unaccounted for during the war’s final stages.
4. The Sri Lankan Government also restricted food and medicine for Tamils, resulting in large numbers of people dying from starvation and many of the injured bleeding to death.
5. There are over 90,000 Tamil war widows, 
6. 60,000 0rphans, thousands of disabled and traumatized people,
7. 50,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are refused entry into their own homes and land because it is occupied by the military. 
8. There is no list provided of people in custody or thousands of people killed, including in the “No Fire Zones” ( NFZ), hospitals, schools, temples, and churches that were bombed.
9. In addition to the killings, thousands of Tamils have disappeared, Tamil women were sexually assaulted and raped,
10. Large numbers of Tamils are imprisoned without trial, and abductions are continuing to this day.