Mullivaikal Muttram

[2] The construction of the memorial had initially began on 15 November 2010, and the foundation stone was laid by Vaiyapuri Gopalsamy (Vaiko) and R. Nallakannu.

The inauguration saw the participation of several leading politicians and activists of the state, such as Nallakannu (CPI), Vaiko (Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam – MDMK) chief, Seeman (chief co-ordinator of the Naam Tamilar Katchi), SP Udayakumar (Kudankulam activist) and Pon Radhakrishnan (Bharatiya Janata Party – BJP).

The sculptures have been fashioned based on the line drawings rendered by artist Veera Santhanam and have been carved out by Mamallapuram Sthapathi Murugan and his team.

[1] Sculptures spread throughout the memorial depict the stories of the Eezham Tamils, from the burning of Jaffna library in 1983 to the mass massacres they had endured.

The sculptures show images of Sencholai – a massacre of school children, the sufferings of internally displaced people in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in a menik farm and in the IDP camp of Kilinoichi, cluster bombing and phosphorus bombing by the Sri Lankan army in a no-fire zone, wailing mothers, broken limbs, guns, and dead bodies.

[3] Portraits of the people who lost their lives in the Eelam wars are on display here, among them the Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's parents, Parvathiammal and Thiruvenkatam Velupillai, and his two sons Charles Anthony and Balachandran, LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham, Tamilchelvan, Thileepan, Annai Bhoopathi, Kittu, Balraj, Sivakumaran, Malathi, Miller, and Angayarkanni among others.

[1] The Mullivaikal Muttram complex is spread out on a 1.75-acre plot at Vilar, a village situated 5 km from Thanjavur on the Thanjavur-Tiruchirappalli national highway.