The Rajapaksa brothers returned to power last year when Gotabaya was elected president.
Sri Lanka’s 37-year conflict began in 1972 when Tamil Tigers waged a bloody war against government troops in a campaign for a separate homeland for their ethnic minority group. For years, Tamils were not allowed to commemorate their war dead, but a ban on “Heroes’ Day” ceremonies at cemeteries was lifted after Mahinda was voted out of office in 2015.His government petitioned courts in the Tamil-majority north of Sri Lanka this week and obtained prohibition orders against the commemorations, the attorney-general’s office said.“Even in the remembrance of the dead there is discrimination against the Tamils in Sri Lanka,” TNA legislator Abraham Sumanthiran said on Twitter.
Police said they had already arrested four people “for posting Heroes’ Day-related messages on social media”.
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