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Tamil Eelam - Suppressed or Restricted Information
Eelam Tamils from Tamil Eelam are a oppressed nation of people who predominantly live on the island known as Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, in the Northeastern province. The island has been ravaged and invaded by several foreign powers, including the Portuguese and the Dutch, but it was the British who eventually conquered the entire island in 1815. They amalgamated the Tamil Kingdom and Sinhala Kingdom, laying the groundwork for the tensions and conflict that continue to affect the island today.
After the British departed, power was primarily handed over to the Sinhalese. The Sinhalese-majoritarian Buddhist state’s goal is to follow the ideology presented in the Mahavamsa, aiming to establish a Sinhala-Buddhist-only state on the island, which marginalizes and oppresses the Tamil population to this day.
Eelam Tamils have been oppressed for decades by the Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lankan state through colonization, ethnic cleansing, land grabs, government backed pogroms, destruction of cultural heritage, massacres, and genocide—all backed by imperialist powers to ensure a foothold in the Trincomalee harbor, located in Tamil Eelam, and to control the island more easily for their objectives.
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Sinhalese Colonization
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Tamil Genocide
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Tamil Eelam Political Information and Organizations
- Eelam People’s Revolutionary Front (EPRLF)
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- Eelam Revolutionary Organization (EROS)
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- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
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- People Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE)
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- Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO)
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Books and Other Works by Pro-Tamil Eelam Authors
- A Fleeting Moment in my Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-facto State, by N. Malathy (Clear Day Books), 2012, 176 pages. English: PDF format (77,127 KB)
- On the Tamil National Question (parts 1 and 2), by A.S. Balasingham (WoW [TU], London), 1977, 17 pages (part 1) and 14 pages (part 2). Part 1 English: PDF format (17,083 KB) Part 2 English: PDF format (11,438 KB)
- Sri Lanka: The Tamil National Question and the Tamil liberation Struggle, by Satchi Ponnambalam (Zed Books), 1982, 298 pages. English: PDF format (32,702 KB)
- The Tamil Eelam Liberation Struggle: State Terrorism and Ethnic Cleansing (1948 - 2009), by Murugar Gunasingam (MV Publications), 2014, 596 pages. English: PDF format (4,798 KB)
- States, Nations, Sovereignty: Sri Lanka, India, and the Tamil Eelam Movement, by Sumantra Bose (Sage Publications), 1994, 237 pages. English: PDF format (13,775 KB)
- The Orders Were To Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle, by Meena Kandasamy (Navayana Publishing), 2021, 49 pages. English: PDF format (978 KB)
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