"With this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, only few days away, it is an appropriate moment to revisit the role of journalists during Sri Lanka’s last months of war in 2009." "The last period of the war in Sri Lanka has often been dubbed as a ‘war without witnesses’ by western governments, media and other stakeholders, including the Sri Lankan government." Sinthujan Varatharajah, works as a London based researcher at and teaching assistant at the University College London (UCL) Political Geography Department.Įxtracts have been reproduced below. Beginning on July 23, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers and other few rebel groups), a separatist militant organization which fought to create an independent Tamil state nam.Writing an opinion about ‘Forgotten heroes of the Eelam war’ for the Weekend Leader, political researcher and member of Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), Sinthujan Varatharajah, outlined the reasons behind the organisation’s forthcoming report, “Silencing the Press: An analysis of Violence against the Media in Sri Lanka.” Excerpt: The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Muthukumar, Tamil National Liberation Alliance, Jeyanthan Brigade, Ambalavanar Neminathan, 1983 Batticaloa Jailbreak, Upsurging People's Force, 1987 Suicide of Tamil Tigers, Operation Sea Breeze, Global Tamil Forum, Operation Thrividha Balaya, 1995 Vellore Fort Jailbreak, Bank of Tamil Eelam, 1984 Batticaloa Jailbreak, Tamil Eelam Army. Chapters: Sri Lankan Civil War, Eelam War IV, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, Indian Peace Keeping Force, Transnational Constituent Assembly of Tamil Eelam election 2010, 2009 Tamil diaspora protests in Canada, Eastern Theater of Eelam War IV, List of commanders of the LTTE, Jaffna University Helidrop, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Origins of the Sri Lankan civil war, Burning of Jaffna library, Tamil United Liberation Front, Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, British Tamils Forum, Operation Balavegaya, Operation Poomalai, Operation Riviresa, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, Eelam People's Democratic Party, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, Tamil Eelam independence referenda, Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Tamil National Alliance, Interim Self Governing Authority, Eelam War III, List of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, Vadamarachchi Operation, Operation Eagle, Eelam National Liberation Front, Thimpu principles, Meenambakkam bomb blast, Tamil Eelam Liberation Army, Flag of Tamil Eelam, Charles Anthony Brigade, Tamil National People's Front, Self-immolation of K.
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Chapters: Sri Lankan Civil War, Eelam War IV, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, Indian Peace Keeping Force, Transnational Constituent Assembly of Tamil Eelam election 2010, 2009 Tamil diaspora protests in Canada, Eastern Theater of Eelam Wa Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
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