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Parthipan joined the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) prior to the 1983 Black July anti-Tamil riots. [10] He was given the nom de guerre Thileepan. Injured in the stomach in May 1987 during the Vadamarachchi Operation (Operation Liberation), he became the LTTE's political leader for Jaffna peninsula.
Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிழீழம், tamiḻ īḻam; generally rendered outside Tamil-speaking areas as தமிழ் ஈழம்) is a proposed independent state that many Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Eelam Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka.
Eruthu Paar Kodi (Look the Flag is Rising) is a Tamil song, written by Puthuvai Rathinathurai, [17] sung at the hoisting of the Flag of Tamil Eelam. [18] As the most widely used song of the Tamils, it was used in the place of a national anthem by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [19] [20] The song was written during the Sri Lankan Civil ...
Sinamkol is the story of a Tamil Eelam soldier Amudhan, his incredible journey and tribunals, as he searches for his wife and daughter after being released from detention by the genocidal Sri Lankan regime. Parallelly, a Tamil family from diaspora visiting Tamil Eelam encounters troubles of post-war challenges.
The Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern Province of Sri Lanka was the forcible displacement of 72,000 Sri Lankan Muslims from the Northern Province carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in October 1990, during the Sri Lankan Civil War. [1] [2] [3] Some observers describe this as an act of "ethnic cleansing".
V. Balakumaran was a Sri Lankan Tamil political activist and a leading member of Tamil militant groups. He was one of the leaders of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS). [ 1 ] Balakumaran later joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and was active in its political division.
Tamil Eelam (spelled "Thamizh Ezham (தமிழீழம்)" and pronounced "Thaml Erlam") is the homeland and nation of the ethnic Tamil people. It is located below the Tamil Nadu state of India and in the North East of Sri Lanka. Tamil Eelam is also the home land of Tamils who are of the Hindu, Christian and Islamic faiths.
Baheerathakumar was recruited into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by his cousin Thileepan in 1984. [6] He took on the nom de guerre Theepan and codename Tango Papa. [6] He sometimes used the aliases Thavabalasingam or Sivatheeban. [6] Theepan served in Mahattaya's Vanni command. [6] He then joined Mahattaya's bodyguard unit. [6]