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CHENNAI (Reuters) -Indian police on Tuesday said they had detained 912 Samsung Electronics workers and union members for organising a street protest, as a strike at the South Korean firm's home ...
Tamil protests can refer to several mass protests involving Tamils in India and Sri Lanka and/or the Tamil diaspora: Protests against the Sri Lankan civil war (2008-09) Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in Canada (2008-09) 2013 Anti-Sri Lanka protests; 2017 pro-Jallikattu protests; 2017 Tamil Nadu farmers' protest; Thoothukudi massacre ...
Thoothukudi massacre [1] (also known as the Thoothukudi police firing, the Anti Sterlite protest firing [5] and so on) denotes events that took place on 22 and 23 May 2018 in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India. The violence took place during an ongoing protest against proposed expansion of a copper smelter plant run by Sterlite Corporation in ...
The 1987 Vanniyar reservation protest was week-long a protest organized by the Vanniyar Sangham headed by S. Ramadoss in Tamil Nadu in September 1987 demanding 20 percent reservation for Vanniyars in education and employment in the state and 2 percent in education and employment in the Union government.
The protest were largely peaceful except few Baton charge by the police. The protests are not just confined to Chennai but thousand gathered across the state in prominent places such as Opposite to District Collectorate and Trains in Salem, [111] MGR Circle in Trichy, [112] Thamukam Grounds in Madurai, [113] VOC Ground in Coimbatore, [114] VOC ...
The violence terrified the Tamil populace of Southern Karnataka forcing over a thousand Tamils to flee in a matter of weeks. [2] The official statistics given by the Government of Karnataka was that sixteen people had been killed in the police firing during protest but individual sources give higher numbers. [3] [4] [5] [6]
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Tamil actor and politician Seeman addressing a Tamil diaspora gathering in March 2013. Protests began on 11 March 2013, when eight students of Loyola College, Chennai fasted in condemnation of alleged atrocities committed against Tamils in Sri Lanka. All 8 students were promptly arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police. [6]