Tamil Eelam

Tamil Eelam is the name given to a separate Tamil state for which rebels in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka are fighting.

Overview

The concept of Eelam, a Tamil homeland in the Sri Lankan island, was proposed by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) in 1976. TULF was a coalition of Tamil parties who campaigned in the 1977 elections for an independent state for Tamils in Sri Lanka.

In the 1977 elections, the Tamil United Liberation Front was elected to Sri Lankan parliament from the northern and eastern provinces. TULF members from parliament however did not take the oath of allegiance to Sri Lankan state and as a result of this as per the constitution of Sri Lanka it lost its seats in the parliament.

From 1948 to 2002, there have been approximately 38 militant groups who have fought with the Sri Lankan Army for a separate country in Sri Lanka's northern and eastern provinces. Many thousands and thousands of tamil people were killed, burned alive, tortured and kidnapped. Tamils houses and farming field were burned and bombarded, which left many tamils to fled the country. This includes groups such as the LTTE - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (Tamil Tigers),'TELO - Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, EPRLF - Eelam Peoples' Revolutionary Liberation Front, PLOTE - People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam, EROS - Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students, and also lesser know groups such as TEA - Tamil Eelam Army, FTA - Ilankai Freedom Tamil Army, SRSL - Socialist Revolutionary Social Liberation..

External Links

• The Struggle for Tamil Eealm (http://www.tamilnation.org/tamileelam.htm)- A Comprehensive Record

• [1] (http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=14502) -Prime Mover of 1979 Massachusetts 'Eelam' Resolution Still Believes in a Separate Tamil State in Sri Lanka

• Articles on Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict (http://www.geocities.com/tamiltribune/te/index.html)

• A perhaps "official" LTTE website (http://www.eelam.com/)

• The Tamil National Struggle & the Indo Sri Lanka Peace Accord (http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=49&pr_v=yes)
• Conference Aims & Programme Tamil National Struggle & Indo Sri Lanka Peace Accord (http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=45&pr_v=yes)
• Muslims have a Case in Sri Lanka (http://www.geocities.com/mforumsl/lw3.htm)
• Indo-Sri Lanka trade: Hype and reality (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FC12Df05.html)
• SRI LANKA: THE UNTOLD STORY Chapter 35: Accord turns to discord (http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DD13Df02.html)
• THE INDO-SRI LANKA ACCORD (http://www.eelamweb.com/history/document/indo_lanka/)

• ETHNIC PEACE ACCORDS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION: A SURVEY (http://www.american.edu/jrich/Richardson.peace.html)
• India holds the key to peace in Lanka? (http://k.t.rajasingam.tripod.com/peace.htm)
• The devolution drift (http://brcslproject.gn.apc.org/slmonitor/devo.html)
• Love, War and Mystery: A Sri Lanka Diary (http://kataragama.org/lovewarmystery.htm)

• "Peace for all with equal rights"Minister (http://www.dailymirror.lk/2002/10/19/News/3.html)
• Indo-Lanka Accord (http://www.uthr.org/Book/Forward.htm)
• New Delhi & the Struggle for Tamil Eelam (http://www.tamilnation.org/intframe/india/)
• Reporting to the world on Tamil Affairs (http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=10817)
• A REPORT ON THE INTERVENTION BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN THE CIVIL WAR IN THE ISLAND OF CEYLON (http://www.eelamweb.com/reports/indian.html)

• PEACE PROCESS IN SRI-LANKA (http://www.asian-affairs.com/Sri-Lanka/sugeeswara.html)
• TIGERS, 'MODERATES' AND PANDORA'S PACKAGE (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sinhala/pandora.htm)
• The road ahead (http://www.flonnet.com/fl1909/19090120.htm)
• IPKF Jaffna Hospital massacre remembered (http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13203)
• Tamil Canadian News (http://www.news.tamilcanadian.com/news/categories/LTTE.shtml)
• When guns cease to fire (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2002/04/07/stories/2002040700140300.htm)
• India Holds The Key To Peace In Lanka? (http://ktrcom.tripod.com/ktrajasingham/id19.html)
• CONFLICT RESOLUTION TAMIL EELAM - SRI LANKA (http://www.tamilnation.org/conflictresolution/tamileelam/88comicopera.htm)
• A massive mandate for peace (http://state-terrorism.net/2001/Mandate_For_Peace.htm)
• No military solution to strife in Lanka: Experts (http://www.tamiltigers.net/history/his2001news470.htm)
• LTTE to take Indo-Lankan accord in peace bid (http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=25634)