Linking Jaffna University – LTTE & the Separatist Ideology
We need to understand that Tamil militancy is just a branch of a malady that is rooted in a mythical notion that Tamils had an independent autonomous homeland in the island of Lanka. To...
Ethno-Religious Issues / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 4th March 2019
We need to understand that Tamil militancy is just a branch of a malady that is rooted in a mythical notion that Tamils had an independent autonomous homeland in the island of Lanka. To...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / Role of India / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd March 2019
1956 – Tamil youth fire at army camp in Batticoloa. Sinhalese civilians shot at in Kalmunai 1961 – Tamil youth attack Sri Lankan soldiers in Jaffna 1961 – Tamil youth forms Pulip Padai (...
Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th February 2019
Lessons for Sri Lanka / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st January 2019
Kosovo was cut up from a balkanised Yugoslavia & given independence in 2008. Kosovo’s status is governed by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 which envisages self-government for Kosovo, but acknowledges the sovereignty and territorial...
2008 was significant for several reasons. LTTE was defeated in the East. Sri Lankan Military was moving to liberate the North. TNA that had been virtually functioning as LTTE’s political wing realized that...
Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th December 2018 · Last modified 7th January 2019
ITAK is the main constituent party of the TNA & a key party promoting a new constitution & attempting to abolish the Executive Presidency. ITAK though formed in 1949 has a history of demands...
Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd November 2018 · Last modified 8th January 2019
The Daily Mirror of 21 November 2018 reported that the Tamil National Alliance had urged diplomats to use their influence ‘with whoever necessary’ to put the country in the right path, whatever that means....
Role of West & Alliances / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 25th October 2018 · Last modified 10th January 2019
Let us first look at the map presented by LTTE as being their Eelam It is more than clear that the Eelam project has been not simply a Tamil project but one that has...