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Liberation does not come as a gift from anybody; it is seized by the masses with their own hands. - Frantz Fanon
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Disabled female fighters from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) speak about their plight and struggle at a camp for the disabled in Vavuniya. The Eelam Tamil community, both in the homeland and in the diaspora, proudly remembers the tens of thousands of Eelam Tamil martyrs who sacrificed themselves for liberation. However, despite this remembrance, former LTTE fighters are severely neglected in the homeland. Not only are former cadres constantly surveilled and intimidated by the Sri Lankan government, but their dignity has also been stripped away. Many are mocked by fellow Tamils, forced to beg on the streets, and pushed into prostitution or alcoholism. They are accused of stealing, subjected to gossip, and publicly humiliated. Tamil politicians exploit former cadres for political gain and votes, only to abandon them once the elections are over. The question remains: how did the Eelam Tamil community fall to such a low point, abandoning its own heroes and allowing them to die and suffer in silence, when those heroes who are suffering today did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives and abandon their own families for Tamils they did not even know. Neither Prabhakaran nor the tens of thousands of Tamil martyrs would be proud of the current state of the Eelam Tamil community for abandoning their comrades. Only history will tell whether Eelam Tamils finally get their act together. There is no point in celebrating Maaveerar Naal while leaving our heroes who are still alive to die.
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Today, Shobana Dharmaraja, better known as Isaipriya, would have turned 44 years old. Hearing the name Isaipriya aches the hearts of millions of Tamils all over the world, remembering the fate and the immense pain she suffered in Mullivaikkal. The horrific pain and dehuminization she suffered was not an isolated event: it reflects what thousands upon thousands of Tamil women endured at the hands of the Sri Lankan government, not only in the small strip of Mullivaikkal, but also throughout the three-decade-long genocidal war that Sri Lanka fought against the Tamil people. I think it is important that Shobana should be remembered for who she was, and not only as a victim among the thousands of Tamils who suffered. She should be remembered for what she loved to do and what she pursued with passion. She was a young, beautiful Tamil actress with great acting range, a dancer, a woman with a beautiful and soothing voice, a journalist, and a great mother. The footage that you are seeing is from the short film Veli, which was shot in the late 2000s, probably around 2007 or 2008. The Tamil Eelam short films and movies that were made during the Eelam war may not have been great in terms of technical quality due to the lack of resources, but the films and the directors behind them wrote meaningful stories that were progressive and deeply moving. As in this short film, it depicts the struggles of young single mothers and the stigma they faced in society. May Isaipriya rest in peace, and may the Sri Lankan government and its perpetrators suffer for their crimes against Eelam Tamils.
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Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil Eelam national leader and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), being asked about his views on the Sinhalese people and the ethnic conflict itself. (2002) “As far as we are concerned in this war, we have seen so much destruction. I tell this to my cadres also. Even now, the Sinhalese people and the Sinhalese politicians, the only reason why they came to the peace process in the first place is that we are tired of being beaten up and they are tired of continuously beating us up. Usually, the ones who are beaten up come for peace, but here they come for peace because they are tired of beating us up. This is what I’m trying to say to them. Instead of pointlessly trying to fight for something they have no connection to, they don’t even have one small plot of land that belongs to them there. So they are going and fighting for something that doesn’t even belong to them in the first place. By trying to do so, they are getting killed, and because of that they are destroying themselves economically for trying to wage this war. Their people are also suffering because of that tremendously. Instead of killing each other, both can separate peacefully and both can prosper. But until they understand this, I have to keep them in check. Other than that, I have no anger towards the Sinhalese people. They are simply suffering due to their own mistakes.”
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A rare documentary from the BBC, released in the early 1990s, exploring the Tamil resistance movement led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The documentary delved into the strategies, motivations, and impact of the LTTE during the Tamil struggle for independence.
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Balasegaram Kandiah, alias Col. Brigadier Balraj (1965–2009) speaks about the historic Second Battle of Elephant Pass in 2000. Approximately 1,200 Tamil guerrillas fought against the Sri Lankan Army, which had over 17,000 soldiers defending the military garrison and approximately 40,000 soldiers stationed throughout the entire Jaffna peninsula. A U.S. military analyst described Elephant Pass as impregnable. At the time, the Elephant Pass garrison was the most fortified military garrison. The LTTE achieved the impossible by liberating the area and taking control of the Elephant Pass in Operation Unceasing Waves III (Oyatha Alaigal 3). Balraj, regarded as second in command to LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in the military sphere, was arguably the finest military commander the LTTE ever had. He excelled in both offensive and defensive positional warfare. On one occasion, the LTTE intercepted an army message from the frontline to headquarters, saying that Balraj was in the field. The response was, “Be careful. Balraj is more dangerous than Prabhakaran.” Later, when Prabhakaran heard about this intercept, the LTTE chief was amused. He reportedly teased the shy Balraj about it, saying, “The Army regards you as the No. 1 enemy now, so I am safe.” Though short-lived, Prabhakaran gave his people a taste of freedom—freedom from being treated as slaves in their own land, freedom from the nightmare every ordinary Tamil person experienced when crossing Elephant Pass. As Taraki Sivaram once said: The rights we enjoy today were not given to us; we earned them through our fight (armed struggle).
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The daughter of S. P. Thamilselvan made a tribute video to her father on Father’s Day. ❤️💛
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Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain, a decorated military officer who served with the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) and fought against the Tamil resistance, now says that after visiting the island and the Tamil areas and studying the situation, it’s very likely that another Prabhakaran will rise in the next 20 to 25 years due to the continued oppression of Eelam Tamils by the Sri Lankan state. A man who once fought the LTTE is now speaking in support of the LTTE and Prabhakaran.
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