Demographic Change in the Tamil Homeland

Sources for the situation, now and in the past —

1.) TamilNet
Almost daily reports on enroachment, such as “Border Division of Mannar Sinhalicized” at http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=36552 and “Amparai GA, DS Officials Step Up Sinhalicization of Batticalow” at http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=36567

2.) International Crisis Group
“Sri Lanka’ North II: Rebuilding Under the Military,” 16 March, 2012 at http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka/220-sri-lankas-north-ii-rebuilding-under-the-military.pdf

3.) TNA MP R. Sampanthan
Numerous speechs in Parliament, including “Land Issues in the Northern & Eastern Provinces,” 22 August, 2013 at http://sangam.org/land-issues-northern-eastern-provinces/ and “Unlawful Occupation of State Lands,” 23 October 2009 at http://www.sangam.org/2009/11/Sampanthan_Speech.pdf

4.) LTTE Peace Secretariat
“Demographic Changes in the Tamil Homeland in the Island of Sri Lanka over the Past Century,” April 2008 at http://www.sangam.org/2008/05/Demographic_Changes.pdf

5.) North East Secretariat for Human Rights
” Forced Evictions of Tamils in Northeast Since 1980’s by Sri Lankan Armed Forces,” January 2005 at http://www.pearlaction.org/voices/Forced%20Eviction%20of%20Tamils%20in%20Northeast%20since%201980s%20by%20Sri%20Lankan%20Armed%20Forces.pdf

6.) Dr. Chelvadurai Manoharan
” Sinhalese-Tamil Relations & the Politics of Space,” 29 June, 1997 at http://www.tamilnation.co/forum/manogaran/970629space.htm

“Ethnic Conflict & Reconciliation in Sri Lanka,” University of Hawaii, December 1987

  • ISBN-10: 082481116X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0824811167

7.) K.Satchithanandan
“Sinhala Colonisation in the Hereditary Tamil Regions of the Island of Sri Lanka,” 1980s, English translation by Tamil Centre for Human Rights 20 March 2000 at http://tamilnation.co/unitednations/uncom00c.htm

8.) TamilNation
Index of articles 1979 to 2007 at http://tamilnation.co/indictment/indict003.htm

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