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Not everyone can speak up to all srilankan tamils, that is what people from tamil nadu should understand, people also need to understand that a problem of caste and social injustice is deeply rooted into tamil culture irrespective of the country( india or Sri Lanka). just imagine in India especially tamilnadu has a huge influence of two great personalities like Dr Ambedkar and periyar and even your constitution has significant reservations to uphold social justice but yet even in 2026 caste is a relevant topic right, so imagine a scenario in which the issue of social justice and caste hierarchy is swept under the carpet and left unaddressed, that how the tamil community in srilanka is. So especially during the time of war most people who were known to have lost government jobs due to the sinhala only act in 1957 and the students who lost university admission due to standardization policy in 1971 are mostly the high caste and the upper middle class, so when the war started can you imagine who had the capability to get out to a European country first as a refugee? You guessed it right they are the people from the top layer of the tamil community( im not undermining the support they gave financially to aid the war but we all need to understand thst they aren’t in the field), people think each and every tamil in srilanka considers ltte to be some magical saviors of the community but no, there was always a conflict of interest within the community, that is something the tamil people should understand, the 1983 riots which is called the black july is a significant event because that helped the ltte to gain significant trust as many people thought there is no other option, this gave them a huge boost and many people no matter where they are in the social heirarchy supported were behind the ltte. Even during this time mass migration happened to the western countries, who were they? Obviously they are the ones who are economically stronger. And who are the ones who are in the frontline of the battle? They were the ones who are economically deprived and of backward castes, i also need to mention that prabakaran during this time was widely regarded as someone who took serious measures to bring down the social disparities as all of them had a common enemy, the srilankan government. This went on for about two decades.

By the early 2000s ltte were in an all time high, and the srilankan government saw underwent a huge economical recession. That when the peace talks happened and ceasefire agreement was signed and for the first time public could travel within the territories, the north and eastern tamils could come to Colombo and the southern sinhalese could go to the north. This peace time was there for few years. And another significant event took place during the time, it was the 9/11 attacks in USA, before that the world had a different view on freedom fighters and terrorism organization but after this event the world especially the west considered all arm struggles as an act of terror. This is the point where the “eelam” or the “tamizheezha thayagam” died. This is the exact point not may 18 2009, and this situation required significant calculations and strategic moves on how the where the ltte should head towards. This was the exact point in which the difference between a warrior and a diplomat was clearly visible, difference between a porali and an arasiyalvadi, because if we look back at tamil nadu, the dmk manifesto in the 1950s had a clear statement saying that their goal is to move towards creating a separate dravidian country, but right after the indo china war and the constitutional amendment in 1962 dmk and anna understood that there hope for an own country is no more so they were proactive and they changed their direction and goals, the ltte faced a very similar situation in the early 2000s during the peace process, they were offered to be under a federal system just like tamilnadu is in india, but you know what the ltte rejected the proposal. But both the parties were in a ceasefire and could travel between territories. Since two decades have been passed from 1983 to 2002, the young generation grew up middle of the conflict with bullets shellings and bombs. This time of peace hit different for them, they understood that the reasons why they had to go to a war was not there anymore and they could be living in there own state just like tamilnadu in india, this gave them hope before an ordinary young kid who has love who has dreams and family would never want to die for a country that is very far from reality, they would always want to live in peace, but the ltte didn’t want it and this created a rift between the ltte leaders and you can check this on YouTube that the issue of caste which was swept under the carpet came out slowly, some people started accusing that the high caste northern tamil are either migrated or they are in higher positions within the ltte but the low caste tamils or the eastern tamils are the ones who are in the frontline of the battle, or used as suíciďe bombers. This conflict of interest eventually lead to the karunas faction to break away from the ltte, by this time a significant number of ltte cadres left the struggle and went home saying that they ltte are fighting towards an unrealistic goal, this breakaway caused a huge loss in trust and hope on ltte among the people, who were considered once as saviors were now considered to be dictators,

and here i would like to quote a dialogue of the tamil movie kaithi in which karthi says if someone grew up in sorrow he should see peace, it really hurts if he was shown peace for a small time and then again put back to sorrow, this is what the young generation of tamil faced in srilanka, they tasted peace during they peace times for few years, they had love of their lives, they had dreams and hopes other than just to survive, for the first time in their lives they could bring down their guard and simply live, and long story short this didn’t go for a long time, the war resumed in 2006, but this time there was a huge conflict of interest between people and the ltte, the ltte cadres we down to 7000-8000 soldiers, the whole territory fell like a pack of cards. The territory kept shrinking and shrinking and you know the rest, who know how the was ended and how ugly it turned out, and definitely the way the then government handled things was pathetic, and it was the innocents who had to pay the price to which my heart bleeds even today.

I personally wish prabakaran would have settled for a federal system in 2002 just like what the dmk did in the 1960s as the hope for a tamil country was no more after 9/11, but he was adamant and didn’t want to give up and wanted to fight till the very end, i think he had chances to minimize the damage that went till mullivaikal in may 18.

So if someone is giving you an opinion of the issue please try to distinguish who he is, where he is an eelam tamil or an Eelam descent tamil. You might get completely different opinions from both of them. Because one saw the problem from a western country and another lived in it

Not everyone can speak up to all srilankan tamils, that is what people from tamil nadu should understand, people also need to understand that a problem of caste and social injustice is deeply rooted into tamil culture irrespective of the country( india or Sri Lanka). just imagine in India especially tamilnadu has a huge influence of two great personalities like Dr Ambedkar and periyar and even your constitution has significant reservations to uphold social justice but yet even in 2026 caste is a relevant topic right, so imagine a scenario in which the issue of social justice and caste hierarchy is swept under the carpet and left unaddressed, that how the tamil community in srilanka is. So especially during the time of war most people who were known to have lost government jobs due to the sinhala only act in 1957 and the students who lost university admission due to standardization policy in 1971 are mostly the high caste and the upper middle class, so when the war started can you imagine who had the capability to get out to a European country first as a refugee? You guessed it right they are the people from the top layer of the tamil community( im not undermining the support they gave financially to aid the war but we all need to understand thst they aren’t in the field), people think each and every tamil in srilanka considers ltte to be some magical saviors of the community but no, there was always a conflict of interest within the community, that is something the tamil people should understand, the 1983 riots which is called the black july is a significant event because that helped the ltte to gain significant trust as many people thought there is no other option, this gave them a huge boost and many people no matter where they are in the social heirarchy supported were behind the ltte. Even during this time mass migration happened to the western countries, who were they? Obviously they are the ones who are economically stronger. And who are the ones who are in the frontline of the battle? They were the ones who are economically deprived and of backward castes, i also need to mention that prabakaran during this time was widely regarded as someone who took serious measures to bring down the social disparities as all of them had a common enemy, the srilankan government. This went on for about two decades.

By the early 2000s ltte were in an all time high, and the srilankan government saw underwent a huge economical recession. That when the peace talks happened and ceasefire agreement was signed and for the first time public could travel within the territories, the north and eastern tamils could come to Colombo and the southern sinhalese could go to the north. This peace time was there for few years. And another significant event took place during the time, it was the 9/11 attacks in USA, before that the world had a different view on freedom fighters and terrorism organization but after this event the world especially the west considered all arm struggles as an act of terror. This is the point where the “eelam” or the “tamizheezha thayagam” died. This is the exact point not may 18 2009, and this situation required significant calculations and strategic moves on how the where the ltte should head towards. This was the exact point in which the difference between a warrior and a diplomat was clearly visible, difference between a porali and an arasiyalvadi, because if we look back at tamil nadu, the dmk manifesto in the 1950s had a clear statement saying that their goal is to move towards creating a separate dravidian country, but right after the indo china war and the constitutional amendment in 1962 dmk and anna understood that there hope for an own country is no more so they were proactive and they changed their direction and goals, the ltte faced a very similar situation in the early 2000s during the peace process, they were offered to be under a federal system just like tamilnadu is in india, but you know what the ltte rejected the proposal. But both the parties were in a ceasefire and could travel between territories. Since two decades have been passed from 1983 to 2002, the young generation grew up middle of the conflict with bullets shellings and bombs. This time of peace hit different for them, they understood that the reasons why they had to go to a war was not there anymore and they could be living in there own state just like tamilnadu in india, this gave them hope before an ordinary young kid who has love who has dreams and family would never want to die for a country that is very far from reality, they would always want to live in peace, but the ltte didn’t want it and this created a rift between the ltte leaders and you can check this on YouTube that the issue of caste which was swept under the carpet came out slowly, some people started accusing that the high caste northern tamil are either migrated or they are in higher positions within the ltte but the low caste tamils or the eastern tamils are the ones who are in the frontline of the battle, or used as suíciďe bombers. This conflict of interest eventually lead to the karunas faction to break away from the ltte, by this time a significant number of ltte cadres left the struggle and went home saying that they ltte are fighting towards an unrealistic goal, this breakaway caused a huge loss in trust and hope on ltte among the people, who were considered once as saviors were now considered to be dictators,

and here i would like to quote a dialogue of the tamil movie kaithi in which karthi says if someone grew up in sorrow he should see peace, it really hurts if he was shown peace for a small time and then again put back to sorrow, this is what the young generation of tamil faced in srilanka, they tasted peace during they peace times for few years, they had love of their lives, they had dreams and hopes other than just to survive, for the first time in their lives they could bring down their guard and simply live, and long story short this didn’t go for a long time, the war resumed in 2006, but this time there was a huge conflict of interest between people and the ltte, the ltte cadres we down to 7000-8000 soldiers, the whole territory fell like a pack of cards. The territory kept shrinking and shrinking and you know the rest, who know how the was ended and how ugly it turned out, and definitely the way the then government handled things was pathetic, and it was the innocents who had to pay the price to which my heart bleeds even today.

I personally wish prabakaran would have settled for a federal system in 2002 just like what the dmk did in the 1960s as the hope for a tamil country was no more after 9/11, but he was adamant and didn’t want to give up and wanted to fight till the very end, i think he had chances to minimize the damage that went till mullivaikal in may 18.

So if someone is giving you an opinion of the issue please try to distinguish who he is, where he is an eelam tamil or an Eelam descent tamil. You might get completely different opinions from both of them. Because one saw the problem from a western country and another lived in it