#eelam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eelam, aggregated by home.social.
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Forty years since Black July: Seven novels about the traumatic legacy of the Sri Lankan civil war
Black July marked the beginning of a 25 year-long civil war that would result in a devastating death toll and displace 800,000 Sri Lankans.
#SriLanka #TamilGenocide #eelam #books #novels #SinhalaNationalism #ShyamSelvadurai #RomeshGunasekara #MichaelOndaatje #ShobhaSakthi #NayomiMunaweera #ShehanKarunatilaka #RuFreeman #history #racism #HumanRights #bookstodon #tamils
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Mass grave found in North-East Sri Lanka; Tamils demand international investigation
A shutdown was carried out across the North-East yesterday as Tamils across the homeland demand for an international investigation into the Kokkuthodavai mass grave.
The mass grave was discovered on June 29th by construction workers from the National Water Supply and Drainage Board prompting excavation efforts.
#SriLanka #mullaitivu #kokkuthoduvai #SriLankanMassGraves #MassGrave #TamilGenocide #history #SinhalaNationalism #HumanRights #tamils #eelam #india
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Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka defies state repression
Post-war memorialisation events serve as resilient expressions of Tamil nationalism despite crackdowns by the Sri Lankan state, writes Mario Arulthas.
#SriLanka #TamilNationalism #TamilGenocide #eelam #LTTE #repression #SinhalaNationalism #HumanRights #repression #india
https://www.himalmag.com/tamil-nationalism-sri-lanka-state-repression/
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35 years on, Lankan Tamil refugees’ fight for Indian citizenship continues
About 59,000 Sri Lankan Tamils reside in the refugee camps in Tamil Nadu. Most of them, who have been staying in India for over 35 years, has been demanding Indian citizenship.
#TamilNadu #tiruchy #SriLankanTamils #eelam #refugees #citizenship #nationality #CAA #SriLanka #india
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Sri Lankan government should 'stop stalling' and investigate human rights violations
Human Rights Watch (HRW) told the Sri Lankan government to "stop stalling and fulfill its obligation to investigate and prosecute the grave violations for which many people still suffer" in a statement marking 14 years since the Tamil genocide.
#SriLanka #eelam #TamilGenocide #genocide #majoritarianism #history #SinhalaRacism #tamils #HumanRights #HRW