Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, his deputy O Panneerselvam and DMK President MK Stalin among others on Saturday slammed the demolition of a memorial monument for Tamils killed in Mullivaikkal in Sri Lanka during peak hostilities in 2009, NDTV said. The monument was established in 2019 in the University of Jaffna in memory of the civilian Tamils killed in one of the bloody episodes of Sri Lanka's last leg of the three-decade old conflict in 2009. Mr Palaniswami said the demolition has pushed Tamils across the world into "grief" and blamed the Sri Lankan government for bringing it down. "It comes as a big shock that the memorial pillar, set up in memory of university students and people killed mercilessly in Mullivaikkal in the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka has been demolished overnight," the chief minister said in a tweet. Mr Panneerselvam also took to Twitter to strongly condemn the demolition and said it came at a time when efforts were on to ensure justice for the ''hordes'' of Tamil civilians killed in the "Ealam war." DMK President MK Stalin, while slamming the incident, wanted India to condemn the demolition. In a tweet, he tagged the twitter handle of the Office of the Prime Minister of India and said the PMO should "condemn this shocking incident." "This is the expectation of the Tamils globally," he added.