{"id":2107,"date":"2017-11-27T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2017-11-27T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:41:08","slug":"tamils-mark-maaveerar-naal-2017-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tamils-mark-maaveerar-naal-2017-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamils mark Maaveerar Naal 2017 worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">Hundreds of thousands of Tamils across the world on November 27 and preceding days held\u00a0events\u00a0to mark Tamil National Remembrance Day or Maaveerar Naal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">Maaveerar Naal, which remembers those who sacrificed their lives in the Tamil struggle for freedom, is marked on November 27 yearly,\u00a0in memory of the first death of a\u00a0Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre in fighting &#8211;\u00a0Lt. Shankar died in combat\u00a0on November 27, 1982.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">Since the end of the armed conflict, Tamils in the North-East have sought to mark today amid military repression. This year, for the second time since the end of armed conflict, Tamils across the North-East will gather at the LTTE resting homes (Thuyilum Illam) which were demolished by the Sri Lankan military with tombstones of former LTTE cadres destroyed, Reported Tamil Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of Tamils across the world on November 27 and preceding days&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}