{"id":153791,"date":"2015-11-26T02:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=153791"},"modified":"2015-11-27T02:23:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T20:53:29","slug":"govt-issues-stern-warning-against-great-heroes-day-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/govt-issues-stern-warning-against-great-heroes-day-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt Issues Stern Warning Against &#8216;Great Heroes Day&#8217; Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police last night warned that legal action will be taken against anyone who organize public events to celebrate or commemorate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maaveerar+Naal&amp;x=8&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maaveerar Naal<\/span><\/a> (Great Heroes Day) which falls on Friday (November 27).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/H-Day-Tamil-LTTE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-153800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/H-Day-Tamil-LTTE.jpg\" alt=\"H Day Tamil LTTE\" width=\"368\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/H-Day-Tamil-LTTE.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/H-Day-Tamil-LTTE-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a>Anyone holding public events in support of the LTTE, will be taken to courts since the LTTE is a banned organization in Sri Lanka police spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekera said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the threats by Police, posters appeared in the Jaffna peninsula and parts of the north, calling people to celebrate the Maaveerar day.<\/p>\n<p>Posters which said \u201cLet\u2019s commemorate our hero\u2019s\u201d, \u201cOur aim is Tamil Eealam\u201d and others with the late LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran\u2019s picture and LTTE flag appeared in several places.<\/p>\n<p>Several banners and posters calling for the people to commemorate the fallen Tamil heroes appeared in the Jaffna University premises as well.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Northern Provincial Council (NPC) member M.K. Sivajilingham had told media that the public have been urged to commemorate slain LTTE members on Friday to mark the LTTE heroes\u2019 week.<\/p>\n<p>He said that anyone has a right to commemorate those killed during the war even if they are LTTE members. Sivajilingam had said that he had urged the public to commemorate the Tamils killed during the war in a peaceful manner without raising the LTTE flag.<\/p>\n<p>During the LTTE\u2019s heyday the Maveerar day and the ensuing hero\u2019s week was celebrated in a grand manner with LTTE military parades and a customary speech by Prabhakaran in which he spelled out the intended path of the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":153851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Govt Issues Stern Warning Against &#039;Great Heroes Day&#039; 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