Today is Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day
May 18, 2026 marks the 17th anniversary of the day that the Sinhala Buddhist fascist Sri Lanka declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers).
From January 21, 2009 to May 18, 2009, Sri Lanka declared No-Fire Zones around hospitals, and then schools which were converted into makeshift hospitals and medical triages. This is a strategy that the former governor of Jenin and Bethelehem, Moshe Elad, has admitted to taking inspiration from.
As soon as the No-Fire Zones were declared, the Sri Lanka Armed Forces continuously shelled the hospitals relentlessly. On many occasions, they would "double-tap", i.e. fire a round of shelling into hospitals, kill several civilians to lure the family members out, and then fire another round of shelling to kill the family members.
Sri Lanka also continuously denied aid from entering the No-Fire Zones as they were shelling it, making them disease-ridden. There are examples of six-year-old children's arms and legs being amputated with butchers' knives with no anesthesia, people receiving multiple amputations on the same limb as previous amputations became gangrenous, people dying of dysentery and other preventable diseases due to the systematic denial of aid by the Sri Lankan government.
In addition to this, doctors who were in the No-Fire Zone were forced to lie at gunpoint in a news conference, severely downplaying the Tamil civilian casualties to nearly a 100-1000. UN estimates state that the death toll is 40,000-70,000, but the true death toll is likely much higher, roughly around 150K-175K.
There are also allegations of chemical weapons usage, specifically that of white phosphorus. Prageeth Ekneligoda, a Sinhalese journalist investigating the usage of white phosphorus by the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration during this time, was disappeared in 2010, never to be heard from again.
Shortly after May 18, the Sri Lanka Armed Forces rounded up several LTTE combatants and civilian Tamils, and proceeded to torture and kill them. The 12-yr-old son of the LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed with 5 shots to the chest at point blank range.
In another high profile case, Isaipriya, a news reporter, was captured by the Sri Lankan army, sexually assaulted, and killed. A Sinhala soldier then proceeded to say about Isaipriya: "I would like to fuck it again", heavily implying that they also sexually assaulted her corpse.
This is probably going to fly under the radar for most of you, but I will not let you people forget the Tamil genocide. I, as an Indian Tamil, saw all of this go down in 2009 on TV, and I never allow you to ignore this.
I have not included any graphic images in here. If you want proof of what I'm saying, you can watch Grief-Stricken Winds.
You can watch Parts 1 and 2 of Grief-Stricken Winds, my docuseries on the Tamil genocide and ongoing occupation, with Part 3 slated for November this year: https://grief-stricken-winds.com
Another thing to understand is that the occupation of the Tamils is ongoing, even after the Sri Lankan govt declared victory, they continued to disappear Tamils in white vans, torture them, sexually assault them brutally, and in some cases allegedly feed their dead bodies to crocodiles.
You can read about the sexual assaults over at ITJP: https://itjpsl.com/reports . In particular there are reports such as "Unsilenced" that are a compilation of the sexual violence Tamil men and boys specifically suffered at the hands of the Sri Lankan state AFTER the war ended in the Mullivaikkaal massacres of 2009.
There is an entire non-exhaustive Wikipedia article of sexual assaults the Sri Lankans have engaged in against the Tamils: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_against_Tamils_in_Sri_Lanka
There are far more resources than this but I'll keep it to a minimum