Tamil Eelam Quotes

It’s a little-known fact that most terrorist groups fail, and that all of them die. Lest this seem hard to believe, just reflect on the world around you. Israel continues to exist, Northern Ireland is still a part of the United Kingdom, and Kashmir is a part of India. There are no sovereign states in Kurdistan, Palestine, Quebec, Puerto Rico, Chechnya, Corsica, Tamil Eelam, or Basque Country. The Philippines, Algeria, Egypt, and Uzbekistan are not Islamist theocracies; nor have Japan, the United States, Europe, and Latin America become religious, Marxist, anarchist, or new-age utopias. The numbers confirm the impressions.

Struggle for justice invariably alters the base culture. So did the long Tamil Eelam struggle. Its crystallization was the Vanni society during the last years of LTTE. My four years experience in Vanni also gave me a unique opportunity to see firsthand the devastating truth about the ways of the powerful on this globe - about which I and many other Tamils have puzzled over for many years. For us Tamils of Tamil Eelam it is a new source of power through knowing. It is also our proud history.

யார் மறப்பார்...?" மூவென்பது ஆண்டின் முன்னே. நல்லூரின் மூவிரண்டு முகத்தான் முன்றலிலே.. ஆறிரண்டு நாளாக -அன்னந் தண்ணிஇன்றி நாவரண்டு நீபுரண்டு பாய்கிடந்து - உயிர் போய்முடித்த சோகத்தினை தியாகத்தினை யார் மறப்பார? யார்மறப்பார் ? சொல் திலீபா? தாயிருந்து பார்த்திருந்தால் தாங்குவளோ? -இந்தியா எம்தாயாக நினைந்திருந்தால் உன்னுயிர். வாங்குவரோ? தோலுரித்து காட்டினாயே அவர் துரோகத்தை வெளிவேசத்தை நாலாறு வயதே வாழ்ந்த திலீபனே!. நாரறுந்து கிழிந்தவராய் போர்புரிந்து தோற்றவராய் புறப்பட்டார் தம்பொதிகளோடு தொண்ணூறில் வேறுக்க வேசம்போட்டு நாருரிக்கும் நரிகளாகி நமையழிக்க வந்தாரே நந்திக் கடல்காண..இனியும் ..நம்புவதா....? கவிஞர்:கவிவன் பிரசுரித்த திகதி: 19, 09, 2014

They [Sinhalese leaders] had clearly established their predilection for the Sinhalese national identity. Though the minority [Tamil] leaders elucidated a great deal of reasoning in this discussion, the Sinhalese leaders... remained steadfast in their decision to have the Lion flag, flexing their muscle of majority for their uncompromising loyalty for their Sinhalese nationality.

Numerous Tamils have had to embrace pitiful deaths due to the lack of even basic medical aids. From minor girls to women approaching menopause, numerous women were gang-raped, sexually assaulted and abused. The temples of Tamil Hindus and the churches of Tamil Christians were all razed to the ground, with innumerable Tamil priests being burned to death and many Christian priests being brutally tortured before being imprisoned and killed.

... Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. They would blow themselves up to take others with them, targeting symbols and representatives of the state; they would attack civilians and eat cyanide to avoid imprisonment. They would kill other Tamils who did not agree with them—other rebels, politicians, and even civilians. They would fight against a government that shelled, starved, and tortured its own citizens. They would renounce their families and bring children and women into their ranks. They would be called terrorists. They would enter into a world in which no one was right.

No militant group should be able to claim credit for it or to use it to promote their own slogans or causes. One woman who had come with a sign for Tamil Eelam argued with Mrs. Premachandran for a while and then left.

Justice M.C. Jain’s interim report29 suggested that the DMK and its leadership had been involved in encouraging Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and his followers.

she reasoned that the armed struggle and the Tamil cause were bigger than Lingeswari’s life, and that she eventually came around to recognizing that. This was the leap of faith that Prabhakaran asked Sri Lanka’s Tamils to take. The Eelam movement will consume many of your nearest and dearest, he told them, but it will all, once the fighting was over, be entirely worth the sacrifice. Clinging to this belief was the only way in which the violence-ridden universe of the Tigers could make any sense.