President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government petitioned the courts to have Tamil Tiger commemorations banned AFP/LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHICOLOMBO: Commemorations for Tamil Tiger rebels killed in Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war were banned on Friday after court petitions by the government of strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
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.The main Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance , protested against the ban on Friday.
He said the majority Sinhalese governments had not barred the leftist JVP, or People's Liberation Front, from commemorating their mainly Sinhalese comrades killed in two failed insurrections in 1971 and in the late 1980s.
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