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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay connected Monday (May 18, 2026) expressed solidarity with the planetary Tamil diaspora connected the juncture of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day, pledging his administration's continued enactment for their rights.
In a societal media station connected 'X', the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) main wrote: "Let america clasp the memories of Mullivaikkal successful our hearts. We volition ever basal by the rights of our Tamil kindred surviving crossed the seas."
May 18 is observed annually by Sri Lankan Tamils worldwide arsenic Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day. On May 18, 2009, the astir three-decade-long Sri Lankan Civil War came to a bloody decision successful Mullivaikkal, a tiny coastal colony successful Mullaitivu district, pursuing the decease of LTTE person Velupillai Prabhakaran.
According to United Nations estimates, betwixt 40,000 and 70,000 Tamil civilians mislaid their lives successful the last stages, transforming Mullivaikkal into a cosmopolitan awesome of wartime atrocities and civilian suffering.
