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Jaffna mayor accused of ignoring police order on Thileepan memorial

2026-11-07

Memorial of Lt.Colonel Thileepan
Photo: Memorial of Lt.Colonel Thileepan by Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0

At a Jaffna Municipal Council meeting, Mayor V. Mathivathani said a police letter ordering removal of structures at the Lt Col Thileepan memorial in Nallur was “not worth considering”. The letter, sent by the Jaffna Deputy Inspector General of Police, was written only in Sinhala and described the me

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