Grief knows no ethnicity, says Dissanayake, pledging lasting peace in Sri Lanka

“As a country that has faced such a massive tragedy, our responsibility today is to prevent such a war from happening again in our country,” he said.

“Grief knows no ethnicity”, Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said, as he vowed to ensure “lasting peace” and build a society “anchored in justice”. Mr. Dissanayake made the remarks at the 16th “War Heroes’ Commemoration Ceremony” held on Monday (May 19, 2025), a day after thousands of Tamils gathered in Mullivaikkal, in the northern Mullaitivu district, to remember their loved ones who were killed by the armed forces in the final phase of the island nation’s civil war that ended in 2009…..| read more on THE HINDU