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A community for Eelam Tamils and their Diaspora. A place to discuss anything related to Tamil Eelam and Tamil.
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A community for Eelam Tamils and their Diaspora. A place to discuss anything related to Eelam and Tamil. Discussion on controversial topics are allowed. However, hate speech will result in a ban.
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Excited for this movie:
https://youtu.be/kTMzUCGnlK0?si=0P7ijA-1B72L0bqv
Is there any book related to it ? Book or documentary ?
Unfortunately, they have said it's fictional in disclaimer.
Release Date: 1/1/2025
Hey, This is an point of view from a Indian Tamil. I am curious what would be the future of Eelam in next 40/50 years.
Would people advocating for regional political power or complete independence would advocate for the same in next 10 years?
Would Tamils in eelam, give up on their demand for independence state due to economic and educational constraints.
I am asking this because we can't keep going on dragging the future and present generation into economic hardships.
Would Indian tamils really care about eelam tamils or just show sympathy?
My take: I witnessed Indian tamils showing true sympathy while some people just fake it out or show sympathy just to resonate with the masses.
People here take pride about tamil tigers but aren't informed about eelam history or struggle.
They don't care about the entire history.
This happens for these reasons:
People here are more interested in earning well, living a good life (which isn't wrong tbh). Because it's your life and you are responsible about it.
The above point applies everywhere tbh.
Hope they just show the same concern and excitement in learning our own history.
Honestly, I'm really pessimistic about the whole thing.
As we all know, the Democrats under Clinton and Obama were complicit in the genocide against us. First, Bill Clinton declared the LTTE a terrorist organization after they attacked US commercial interests and refused to renounce armed resistance against the Sri Lankan government. Under Obama, the US turned a blind eye to the war crimes being committed in the final stages of the war, especially at Mullivaikkal. Then, Obama-era diplomats were caught in leaked cables being aware of massive war crime violations but urging the gov't to ignore them for financial and geopolitical reasons.
However, the Republicans under Bush contributed quite a bit to the Sri Lankan Army's atrocities against Tamils as well. As part of the 'war on terror', Bush allied with the Sri Lankan gov't against the Tamils, demanding the LTTE renounce armed resistance, abandon the demand for a separate state, and commit to a full disarmament in exchange for the US government considering removing them from the Terrorist organizations list. In addition, under Bush's administration, noted war criminal Gotabaya Rajapaska was granted US citizenship, and the commander of the Mullivaikkal massacre Gen. Fonseka was granted a green card.
I really don't like Kamala and the Democrats due to their stance on Palestine and their willingness to align themselves with the Cheney family and Bush's relatives. However, Trump is such a wild card, and quite frankly, I could see him going either way.
The best case scenario is that whoever's elected ignores Sri Lanka as a country since it doesn't matter as much in relation to the US government's current geopolitical interests. The worst case scenario could include more funding to the Sri Lankan gov't to combat terror (i.e. abuse Tamils).
Interview with Tamil Srilankan Ex MP, deputy speaker from Nuwara Eliya
I’m a North Indian, who has been reading about history of Eelam and Tamils’ struggle for a safe, dignified & sovereign space for themselves.
Since Eelam Tamils have been lobbying in Canadian political parties, why don’t they try to reach out to Indian ones and try to build a support for themselves?
I’m saying since the actual genocide of Hindus, which did happen, was one in Sri Lanka, of 1.69 lakh Tamil Hindus in 2009 apart from mass rapes, murders, forced disappearances & systematic persecution before it for decades, at the hands of a Sinhalese-Buddhist fascist state intent on genocide to establish island as a Buddhist nation— destroying Hindu temples to build Viharas & Stupas to let it known.
Given the political environment in India rn, won’t highlighting this point along w Eelam Tamil’s conviction to Saivism in France, Switzerland and wherever they are might lead to genuine support online from Hindu RW groups, which might seep into real life sympathy too ?
Religion is a great tool of subversion after all.
PS : I’m opposed to RSS/BJP and its agenda of Hindutva, but as a well wisher, feel that Eelam Tamils have a lot to gain if they clinch the opportunity, reach out on Twitter etc, distance themselves from Dravidian politics of TN (since I feel Eelam Tamils get coupled w TN Tamils) & embrace realism.