Karthikai Vaasam'- Maaveerar honoured with tree planting drive

by Sharmini
Nov 23, 2023

The Tamil National Green Organisation opened its annual 'Karthikai Vaasam' flower garden at Kittu Memorial Park in Nallur, Jaffna today and honoured fallen LTTE cadres. 

Participants were welcomed with a Karthikai flower - gloriosa superba - before a sacrificial lamp was lit by the mother of a fallen female LTTE cadre, in memory of the tens of thousands of Tamil fighters who gave their lives in the liberation struggle. 

Since the end of the armed conflict, the planting of trees in November has become a form of commemoration of those who died fighting for the Tamil struggle.

Kittu Memorial Park in Nallur was opened in 1994 in honour of the senior Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) official Colonel Kittu who committed suicide along with nine other cadres after being surrounded by Indian navy warships in 1993.

The exhibition will be open until November 30. 

 

 

 

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