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Today, we remember the burning of the Jaffna Library, set ablaze on the night of May 31, 1981, by Sri Lankan state forces. The library housed over 97000 books and irreplaceable Tamil manuscripts, making it the largest in Asia and a cornerstone of Tamil intellectual heritage
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Today we remember the 169,796 Tamil civilians killed by Sri Lanka. Trapped in promised safe zones, their lives were cut short by forced hunger, relentless shelling, and attacks on medical sanctuaries. The world may have looked away, but we will never let their history be erased.
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On this day 17 years ago, within 24 hours, 3000 Tamil civilians were killed and 25000 injured in the 2 km² NFZ. Trapped under relentless shelling, they had nowhere to run. Dead bodies lay everywhere as the remaining civilians hid in bunkers, surrounded by fire #tamilgenocide
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(1) On this day 17 years ago, The New York Times highlighted satellite evidence showing Sri Lanka's shelling of the No-Fire Zone. During this period, locals reported relentless and indiscriminate shelling by the SLA, massacring over 1,200 innocent Tamil civilians #TamilGenocide
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(2) New York Times said the images "show dozens of structures that appear to have been destroyed between last Wednesday and Sunday, and multiple craters that appear to reflect the impact of heavy weaponry,"
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(3) The Project Director at AAAS also noted that there was no visible artillery in LTTE-controlled areas: "Although artillery could be hidden, the preliminary analysis did not show big artillery pieces in the rebel-held zone."
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(1) On this day 17 years ago, the last remaining hospital in the No Fire Zone, set up inside a school, ceased to function as relentless Sri Lankan shelling on civilians inside the hospital intensified, leaving many without medical care. #tamilgenocide
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(2) The OISL reports, “After 14 May 2009, the doctors could no longer go to the hospital due to the intensity of the shelling, and it had to be closed. Dozens of patients who could not be moved were left behind.”
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(1) On this day 17 years ago, Sri Lanka relentlessly bombarded the No Fire Zone for over 12 hours from all directions. The U.S. State Department later estimated that more than 1000 innocent Tamil civilians were massacred in a single day, with another 1000 wounded #tamilgenocide
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(2) Despite assurances that heavy weapons would not be used, the area, packed with tens of thousands of Tamil civilians was shelled indiscriminately. As the shelling intensified, the last ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) ship
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(3) one of the only lifelines for the wounded left the area
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🚨 The number of skeletons discovered at the Chemmani mass grave goes up to 260! #Tamilgenocide
LankaFiles@lankafilesMay 8
The number of skeletons discovered at the Chemmani mass grave in northern Sri Lanka goes up to 260 with three more bodies found on Friday (8) - the 11th day of excavations in the third stage. 256 bodies have been removed from the site so far. Excavations continue.
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(1) On this day (08.05) in 2009, Sri Lanka declared the 3rd NFZ, where 100000 Tamil civilians sought refuge in just 3 km². The zone was relentlessly shelled from all sides by Sri Lanka with up to 1000 civilians murdered each day. Survivors described the zone as Hell on Earth
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(2) These were SLA Artillery capabilities. The UN report "Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka" states: "Despite Government pronouncements, satellite images in Annex 3 show that SLA artillery batteries were constantly adjusted to increasingly target the NFZs."
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(3) Among various other weapons MBRLs were used by the SLA to kill civilians. MBRLs are unguided missile systems designed to shell large areas. When used in densely populated areas they are indiscriminate and can cause mass civilian casualties, a fact Sri Lanka was fully aware of
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Tamil Genocide Education Project retweeted
Parthiban Shanmuganathan@thisisparthibanMay 7
Today is the 10th day of the 3rd phase of the excavation of the #ChemmaniMassGrave site. The number of skeletons found so far is 259. The number of skeletons excavated is 254. "Most of the skeletons excavated yesterday and today belong to children" Attorney at Law V.S.Niranjan.
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Excavations resume at Chemmani mass grave, where the Sri Lankan Army executed and buried innocent Tamil civilians. The number of bodies discovered has risen to 254. Among them, once again, a baby. #tamilgenocide
Parthiban Shanmuganathan@thisisparthibanMay 5
The total number of human skeletons including those of children found at the #ChemmaniMassGrave exceeds 250. On Tuesday (05), another infant skeleton in a very fragile state was unearthed bringing the total number of bodies found at #SriLanka's 2nd largest mass grave to 254.
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(1) These were the locations of all hospitals in the Vanni. Sri Lanka ultimately bombed them all, including the last functioning hospital in Mullivaikkal, which was shelled multiple times on this day 17 years ago, causing mass civilian deaths #tamilgenocide
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2 The hospitals were packed with hundreds of injured civilians from the NFZ. More than 100 new patients were arriving each day, many from the NFZ. Many had severe or life-threatening injuries caused by artillery fire or burns. The casualties, many of them babies, young children
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(3) and the elderly, were packed in every conceivable space on beds, under tables, in hallways and outside in the driveway
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