Dying to be Remembered: Tamil Warriors' Desecrated Burial Plots (Tuyilum Illam) in Sri Lanka's Civil War
In May, 2009 the bloody 26-year long Sri Lankan civil war came to an agonizing end after an estimated 150,000 deaths. The Tamil Tiger insurgency, exhausted, finally succumbed to the Sinhala government victors who engaged in a secret, frenetic, though briefly sustained, period of systemic genocide. T...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2021
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Nidān
Year: 2021, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-87 |
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B Sri Lanka B Cilappatikāram B ‘LTTE’ (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) B Tamil language B Tuyilam Illam B Kaṇṇaki B Tamil Tigers B ‘Tamiḻīl Viṭutalai Puḷikaḷ) B (in Tamil B martyr bombers B Sinhala B 'Tamiḻīl Viṭutalai Puḷikaḷ) B Māriyammaṉ |
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| Summary: | In May, 2009 the bloody 26-year long Sri Lankan civil war came to an agonizing end after an estimated 150,000 deaths. The Tamil Tiger insurgency, exhausted, finally succumbed to the Sinhala government victors who engaged in a secret, frenetic, though briefly sustained, period of systemic genocide. The surviving civilian non-combatant Tamil population in northern Sri Lanka bore the vengeful brunt in the advance of government armies. In the face of international scrutiny, the government denied this genocide and banned both the United Nations and the international press from areas where systemic violence might be verified. This murderous rampage was accompanied by governmental determination to destroy not just the remnants of Tamil resistance, but all memories and evidence of it. They bulldozed every one of the 30 major sacred graveyards enshrining those perceived by surviving Tamils as martyrs killed during the war. This paper attempts to explain the unique character of these graveyards and how the government undertook to eradicate efforts to memorialize the venerated deceased., |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2021.1 |