{"id":196375,"date":"2018-11-27T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=196375"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T07:00:03","slug":"defying-confusing-magisterial-orders-prabhakarans-birthday-celebrated-widely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/defying-confusing-magisterial-orders-prabhakarans-birthday-celebrated-widely\/","title":{"rendered":"Defying Confusing Magisterial Orders: Prabhakaran\u2019s Birthday Celebrated Widely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion reigns supreme in Jaffna and the North-East today as thousands of people came forward defying magisterial orders to celebrate the birthday of the LTTE Leader, the deceased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Prabhakaran\">Prabhakaran<\/a>, using prohibited symbols of the LTTE. The North was a sea of red and yellow flags symbolizing the LTTE. Jaffna is at its noisiest today.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The LTTE Graveyards (called Maaveerar Thuyilum Illam, or Great Heroes\u2019 Sleeping House) in Kopay, Uduthurai and Chaati are all places of great celebration of the \u201cGreat Heroes of the LTTE\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In addition 7 LTTE Graveyards in Mullaitivu, 2 in Kilinochchi, 2 in Mannar and 1 in Vavuniya are locations seeing a sea of people gathering to celebrate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196376\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jaffna-University-Maaveera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196376\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jaffna-University-Maaveera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jaffna-University-Maaveera.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jaffna-University-Maaveera-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jaffna-University-Maaveera-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrations at University of Jaffna<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University of Jaffna has been decorated as if it is a huge cemetery. Loudspeakers blaring LTTE songs are so noisy that they can be heard up to the Thinnaveli Market which is about 1.5 km away.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jaffna Hindu College is also celebrating, and the crowds are so huge that KKS Road where the school is located is almost impassable. All of the Passaiyoor Coast is blocked by the crowds celebrating.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196377\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Puthukidiyiruppu-School-LTTE-Flag-at-a-School.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196377\" class=\" wp-image-196377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Puthukidiyiruppu-School-LTTE-Flag-at-a-School.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Puthukidiyiruppu-School-LTTE-Flag-at-a-School.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Puthukidiyiruppu-School-LTTE-Flag-at-a-School-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LTTE Flag at a School<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Significantly, commemorative celebrations are also held by huge crowds gathering at the ITAK Office on Martyn Road, Jaffna which leads to the Jaffna Railway Station.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Jaffna Magistrate, S. Saseekaran, when the police applied for a ban on LTTE leader&#8217;s birthday celebrations, prohibited the use of LTTE symbols, but said that remembering dead persons cannot be stopped. The Kayts Magistrate, A. Judeson, when the police applied for a ban on LTTE Commemorations, banned LTTE symbols but strangely not commemorative songs which anyway always hold up the LTTE and it agenda. The Batticaloa Magistrate, when faced with a similar request for a ban from the police, banned everything that is an LTTE symbol, including commemorative songs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these magisterial bans, a school in Puthukudiyiruppu even put up an LTTE flag on a power line.<\/p>\n<p>A university observer said that President Maithripala Sirsena\u2019s lead in ignoring the highest law of the land, our constitution, has led to this total lack of law and order in the country as different magistrates give different rulings and even these are disobeyed in the confusion. <em><strong>(Jaffna Correspondent)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":196376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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