Ranjanidevi holds photos of her husband (middle) and her two brothers who went missing during the fag end of the civil war.
Tamil women who protest to find the disappeared arrive at the Mullivaikkal town's Genocide Day memorial on May 18. Police officials are seen standing at a distance.
Scenes at Colombo's Galle Face Green shows people coming out on the streets and demanding accountability from their political elite. Photos: Pallavi Pundir
Under heavy military surveillance, Tamils cried as they mourned their disappeared loved ones at the Genocide Day memorial on May 18.
Tamils line up to mourn with a plant to represent their disappeared loved ones at the Genocide Day memorial in Mullivaikkal on May 18.
Heartbreaking scenes of mourning unfold in Mullivaikkal on May 18.
A mother of the disappeared, wearing a symbolic black sari and head band, offers flowers at the Genocide Day memorial. Similar memorials have been targeted by the state officials in the past.
Ranjana Prabhakaran lost her son, then 17, in 2008 during the civil war. She claims he was taken by the military officials, and she never saw him again.
