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Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka – At a beach in the northeastern Sri Lanka, Krishnan Anjan Jeevarani, part of his family in the banana leaf. Placed a samosa, lollipops and a large glass Pepsi next to flowers and incense sticks.
Jeevarani was one of the thousands of tamels celebrating the 16th anniversary of Sri Lanka in Mullivaikal in Mullivaikal on May 18, government and Tamil Eelam’s freedom-tigers, a separatist group fighting for the homeland.
As in previous anniversary, this year, Tamils, remember relatives and burned in silence for a moment. Dressed in black, people were saddened by memorial fire and ATE ATE Kanji, Mullivaikkal’a saddened in the lack of helpless food.
The memories of this year in September, the president, elected leftist Anura Kumara Kumara Dissanayake, the first of the new government, caused the hopes for possible justice and answers to the Tamil Society.
The Tamil community claims that about 170,000 people were killed by the genocide of civilians during the final stages of the war and about 170,000 people were killed by government forces. UN calculations put this figure in 40,000.
In 1970-1980, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Dossanayake (JVP), the leader of the Sri Lanka government, was aimed at deleting “National Unity” and racism. Last year, before the elections, he promised several promises, including the release of military occupied territories and political prisoners in Tamil Heart.
However, eight months after the selection, these liabilities are already tested – and are still the first days for his leadership, many say that they have seen in Tamil society so far, but frustration.
No ‘fear climate’, but not ‘real change’
In March 2009, several members of the Jeevarani family, including parents, sister and three-year-old daughter Sri Lankan forces, set shelter tents near Mullivanikkal.
“We just cooked and eat and we were happy,” he said. “When Shell falls, it was like we woke up.”
Now 36-year-old Jeevarani was buried in a bunker and left the territory and left the territory and set fire to Mullivaikkal. In May 2009, the survivors of the O and his family entered the area controlled by the army.
Now 16 years later, as he and other Sri Lankan remember lost family members, although most of the memories were disturbed, although he violated an event in the eastern part of the country, although the memories were unimportant.
It was a contrast previous years state raid in such memorial measures.
“There are no fears of fear during the period of two Rajapaksa regimes,” he said.
The Sri Lanka army was Rajapaksa in the Mahinda, where the bloody attacks that ended the war in 2009, the allegations of human rights violations.
“But something based on something (under dissanaye)? Not yet,” Satkunanathan said.
Satkunanathan government’s terrorist act (PTA) and the insulting samples of the land in connection with the lack of transparency in Mullivaikkal to seize lands in Mullivaikkal.
Despite the pre-election promises, the Dissnayake government announced the Tamil allegations of genocide this month. On May 19, a day after Tamil, Dossanayake was attended by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces “War Heroes of the Armed Forces, and the Defense Ministry announced the promotion of a number of military and fleet staff. In his speech, Dissanayake, “Keese does not know the ethnicity,” he said, “Falling the” army of our heart “is equivalent to the” Forever Honor in Our Heart “.
‘We walked on dead bodies’
60-year-old Retired Director Kathiravelu Sooriyakumari, in 2009, the losses in Mullivanikkal were so much, “I even had to walk on the corpses.”
He said that government forces used the white phosphorus during the civil war, and the lawsuit of the Sri Lanka claim repeatedly. Although not prohibited, many law scholars interpret their international law as prohibiting the use of white phosphorus – a Hot chemicals This can burn the skin up to the bone – in tightly settled areas.
Sooriyakumari’s husband Rasenthiram died during an attack near Mullivaikkal while trying to protect others.
“He sent everyone to the bunker. He sent everyone and when he came to himself, he hit a tree and then leaped and died.” Although the internal organs came out, “he raised his head and looked around all of us, seeing that we were safe.”
The son was only seven months old. “He never saw his father’s face,” he said.
Leave many households without war sooriyakumari. After Sri Lanka, they had a shortage of food after 2022 economic crisis and the subsequent increase in the cost of living.
“Will you be hungry, will someone come and check us?” He said, 63-year-old Manoharan Kalimuthu, his son died in Mullivaikkal and died after leaving a wheel to relieve himself and hit a crust. “If they were here, they would look at us if they were here.”
Kalimuthu said he did not think that the new government would hand over justice for Tamils: “We can believe it only when you see it.”
‘No accountability’
Sooriyakumari said he did not believe that something will change under a new management.
“There’s a lot of conversations, but there is no event. No reason is there, so how can we believe them?” Al Jazeera said. “These days, many Sinhalese people in these days have understanded our pain and suffering and support us … But the government is against us.”
He suspected Dissanaak’s JVP Party and the history of the violence, and the more widespread the history of violence saying “feared JVP”. The party supported the government of Rajapaksa when the army was crushed by the Army Tamil separatist movement.
Satkunanathan, JVP showed the track record “Rajapaks supported, they were a supporter of war, anti-international community, the opposition of Sri Lanka.”
The party said they wanted to show “the more advanced position in a progressive position, but the movement of the rhetoric was”.
Despite the announcement of the plans to establish a truth and reconciliation commission of the Dismanayake, the government rejected the settlement of the Human Rights Council for a large number of war crimes. Prior to the presidential election, Dissanayake said he would not want to judge responsible for war crimes.
“Satkunanathan said,” Satkunanathan, who was responsible for the violations of war, “Satkunanathan, refused to deal with the Sri Lanka Accounts Project (SLAP). “I would like to prove them wrong.”
The government has repeatedly changed its position in the thirteent amendment to the Dairy Lankan Constitution, which overthrows the powers in the north and east. Prior to the presidential election, Dissaanaye said he supported his implementation in meetings with Tamil parties, but the government did not make a clear plan for this by dismissal by the IT Secretary-General in the presidential election.
‘We need answers’
“After coming to the Office, six months does not intend to resolve the most relevant complaints of the new government’s plan or the war,” said Thyagang Ruwanpathirana, South Asian researcher in Amnesty International, said. “And the truth that has disappeared on the agenda of people in the north and east.”
Still, some, 48-year-old Krishnapillai Sothilakshmi remains hopeful. Sothilakshmi’s husband Senthivel, forcibly disappeared in 2008. He said he believed that the new government would give their answers.
2017 sheet by Amnesty International (Pdf) Since the late 1980s, from 60,000 to 100,000 to 100,000 and 100,000 people are expected to disappear. Although Sri Lanka has established an office of missing people (OMM) in 2017, there has been an open progress since today.
“We need answers. They are alive or not? We want to know,” said Sothilakshmi.
However, for Jeevarani, the three-year-old daughter is looking at a photo of Nila, crying on the beach, it is too late for any hope. The palm trees grow above the grave of their family, and he cannot determine the exact point where he is already buried.
“If someone is sick, this government or this government can say they will treat them,” he said. “But no government can bring the dead back, can?”
