FACT BOOK
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The Sinhala government that rules the entire island claims the island is too small for Tamil Eelam to revert its pre-colonial status of a separate nation.This reasoning defies all logic.There are 38 other independent nations in existence today that are smaller than the proposed state of Thamil Eelam.[Table]
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Time Line. Every nation has a history. Ever since the Portuguese captured the Tamil Kingdom in 1621AD, the history of Eelam has been one of foreign domination . This page outlines the major historic events of the European and the Sinhala rule of Eelam. |
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Documents. A Collection of records pertaining to the Tamil struggle for freedom and peaceful co-existence with the ruling Sinhala Nation. |
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| Pictorial
Pages. A picture is worth a thousand words. The following pictorial pages show the grievousness of the Sinhala domination and the legitimacy (both in legal and moral terms) of the Tamil struggle for freedom. |
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| Violence Since independence from the British Rule violence has been a means utilized by successive Sri Lankan governments to subjugate the Tamil people. These pages contain some reports. |
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| Sri Lanka's
Laws. The Sinhala oppression of the Tamil nation has taken many forms - disenfranchisement, repeated pogroms, targeted cultural and religious destruction, and now an armed occupation. All along "laws" were enacted to give legitimacy to the actions. |
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Lanka Propaganda. Sri Lanka employs a variety of disinformation techniques to bolster its subjugation of Eelam. These pages show a few (proven) cases of this deceptive propaganda. |
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| NGO Reports A number of international non-governmental organizations have documented the human rights violations against the Tamil people by the Sinhalese. |
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| UN Reports The United Nations too, despite the coercive power of the government of Sri Lanka, has produced a few damning reports. |
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| US Government
Reports The US government also, in spite of its overt alliance with the Sinhala government for selfish geopolitical reasons, has produced a few reports on the human rights violations. |
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| Resources A page full of resource material for research - The international covenants and laws that Sri Lanka government keeps violating. |
The Broken Covenant
- How the Sinhala Nation seceded form the Tamil Nation in 1972