Why does the state fear remembering the dead?
There's a pattern in the bulldozing of the Jaffna memorial & the removal of white cloth at Borella.
1. Acts carried out by security forces under the cover of night
2. The sites were a reminder of the pain experienced by minorities

at the hands of the state.
These are not new. They are part of a longer history of strategies aimed at denying memories & inconvenient truths that do not nearly fit the 'master narrative' advanced by the state. https://twitter.com/EssexHRC/status/1263741740898553856?s=19

The visible sight/site of such memories gnaw at a state, threatening to expose the loopholes in its saviour narrative (postwar)/narrative of science (forced cremation). Memory is far more powerful than we may think. The state knows it, & even in the dark of night, it's showing.