Nearly two decades after the war ended, there are still two commemorations. Though the Lankadeepa is the most read newspaper on the island, it ignores the Mullivaikkal commemorations. But how the frontpage remembers the war has changed since 2009.
The LTTE’s defeat in May 2009 is almost always portrayed as a government win. Peter Stafford Roberts argues that it was actually an LTTE loss. After Balasingham’s death, Prabhakaran, the LTTE supremo, started making serious mistakes.
Vijay’s two-year-old political party has redrawn the Tamil Nadu electoral map. Though he echoed the long-standing consensus on Sri Lankan issues, this fresh chapter in Tamil Nadu politics may be an opportunity to ‘reset’ Lanka-Tamil Nadu relations.