Mullivaikal Muttram

The Mullivaikkal Memorial or Mullivaikkal Muttram (Tamil: முள்ளிவாய்க்கால் நினைவு முற்றம்) is a memorial dedicated to the Tamils who were massacred by the Sri Lankan army during the final phase of war between Tamil Eelam freedom fighters(LTTE) and Sri Lankan armed forces at Mullivaikkal in 2009. It is located in the Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu State of the Indian sub-continent. The Mullivaikal memorial was inaugurated on November 6, 2013.

It was built by Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran and the World Tamil Confederation Trust he heads.

The construction of the memorial had begun in November 15, 2010 and The foundation stone was laid by Vaiko and Nallakannu. It was originally intended to be just a memorial pillar, but with increasing desecrations of the Tamil memorials in Sri Lanka, it was decided to be made into a memorial to leave a trace of the bloody civil strife that killed Tamils in Sri Lanka in the pages of history.

The construction of the memorial was commissioned by the Ulaga Tamil Peravai(World Tamil Confederation), and was supervised by Pazha Nedumaran, the founder and the chief of the Confederation as well as the Tamil National Movement.

According to Nedumaran,

"This is a memorial that will showcase to the world the ignominy and untold sufferings of Tamil people in the tear-drop nation. It will remind every Tamil that the fire should burn in the heart of all Tamil people until the criminals of Eelam war are punished."

Funds to build the memorial were raised from various sources, says Nedumaran. The land for the memorial and a major portion of the capital cost was donated by noted Tamil activist M Natarajan (a student protestor against ani- hindhi movement Tamil Nadu),Chief editor of Tamilarasi magazine .

The inauguration of the memorial took place on 6 November 2013, two days ahead of the originally scheduled date. The inauguration saw the participation of several leading politicians and activists of the state, such as Nallakannu(CPI), Vaiko Mdmk Chief, Seeman(Chief co-ordinator of the Naam Tamilar Katchi), SP Udayakumar(Kudankulam activist) and Pon Radhakrishnan(BJP).

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