BBC Documentary: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 6/6

BBC Documentary: Birth of The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

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• tamil
• tigers
• eelam
• ltte
• sri
• lanka

[dasiths]

I am a Sinhalese too. I am ashamed of racist, extremist Sri Lankans may it be Sinhalese or Tamil. They are depriving of us a united Sri Lanka.

I feel your pain mate, Even some Tamils born outside of Sri Lanka still fight the same battles their parents and grand parents fought not knowing that our generation doesnot see Tamils as LTTE but our brothers.

Mate give us a chance. I don't think it's too late for us.

[thinktok]

It began with importation of 1 million tamils into Ceylon? As usual all these problems have a colonial connection in this case Portuguese, Dutch, English and Indian.

Today, the LTTE is cornered and thousands of innocent civilians are surrounded.

The West have a finger in most of the world's trouble spots, such as Tibet, Taiwan, Palestine, Iraq etc When will they stop their agenda??

[parvojudo1]

wish all my rebel heroes werent marxist

[parvojudo1]

interesting story to be sure. I dig the spirit of the tiger4s and dig their cause, but this documentary is horribly edited for a bbc production. Must have limited access to footage

[SLwootwootUK]

@santhoshkanna1 see i would say his death (natural of course) but as soon as he goes he's got like 3/4 brothers in the cabinet with the same views as him who are most likely going to take over. i dunno, so finger crossing is all we can do without damaging the weak but present stability that is currently on the island

[santhoshkanna1]

@SLwootwootUK I appreciate your views. is there anyway to stop rajapakshe? god only knows! let us keep our fingers crossed for the expected change!

[SLwootwootUK]

@SLwootwootUK at the end of the war, the majority of the money did not go to the north where it was needed, but rather to his home town (note the new cricket stadium and the new international port and harbour). yes that area is also the other major poor part of the country, but money should have been split equally. anyways peace.

[SLwootwootUK]

@SLwootwootUK i do agree that the tamils should have been given much more consideration in parliament. i also strongly believe that (here comes the possibly blasphemous part) rajapakse is poison to sri lanka. even without looking at the strongly controversial last 2 months of the war, he has changed the law about presidential length of term limit to no limit whatsoever. whilst the past is the past, history has proven that this is the first step to dictatorship. and one thing is definite

[SLwootwootUK]

@santhoshkanna1 at least we finally agree, although tamils do have the same rights and can go to school etc. It is however the perceptions of the extremist, idiotic hardline sinhalese that end up with SOME sinhalese people treating them inhumanely and try to deny them their basic human rights. but yes i strongly believe that there was a reason for some tamils feeling that they have to take up a gun etc. and that the past is the past and we must learn from it

[santhoshkanna1]

@SLwootwootUK I was defending your fact that women are suppressed from their rights. That is past now. If Srilankan govt. has brought in more Tamils in army and parliament and if they have been given equal consideration, Tamils wouldn't have got separatist feeling. Past is past. I wish Srilanka will become united and prosperous soon. All the best.

[santhoshkanna1]

@SLwootwootUK: No country can think about killing their own people. Srilanka doesn't have to follow the wrong foot steps of Russia, Syria and Myanmar. India is not fighting against maoists using its Army. No heavy weapons (only guns), no air force and importantly army cannot attack maoists. Army can only create strategies and train state police to fight them. Maoists have voting rights, they can go to school, they are not raped, and they are considered equal to any other citizen.

[SLwootwootUK]

@santhoshkanna1 you cannot come to a generalisation that there are no tamils in the forces just because there are plenty of tamil tiger videos about