nPosted on November 27, 2019
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nToday is the anniversary of Lt. Shankar’s death in 1982. Shankar was apparently the first Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) soldier to die in combat.
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nWho – What – Where is Tamil?
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nTamil people speak Tamil and live in southern India and in northeastern Sri Lanka.
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| The Tamil people is a sub-group of the Dravidian peoples… |
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nLiberation Tigers?
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nFor decades, the Tamils who lived in Sri Lanka had quarreled with the majority Sinhalese and the government, which created policies that repressed them as a people and a culture. For example, importing Tamil-language movies, magazines, and so forth from India was banned! Many Tamils became determined to pull away from Sri Lanka and become an independent nation called Tamil Eelam.
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But the Sri Lankan government didn’t want the nation to be split, so a civil war ensued. The Liberation Tigers was a militant political organization that started out like a guerrilla force but, as the years passed, became more and more developed, as if it were a conventional branch of armed forces with the backing of an entire nation.
But the Sri Lankan government didn’t want the nation to be split, so a civil war ensued. The Liberation Tigers was a militant political organization that started out like a guerrilla force but, as the years passed, became more and more developed, as if it were a conventional branch of armed forces with the backing of an entire nation.n
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nThe LLTE is known for using women and children and for, at one time, controlling 76% of the northeastern territories. However, the force is now inactive, and it is considered that it was defeated by the Sri Lankan military in 2009.
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nCivil war is always sad. Let’s face it, war is always sad!
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nAnd repression of a people is sad, too. Hopefully things are getting brighter for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. After all, look at their homeland:
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nAlso on this date:
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Musician Jimi Hendrix’s birthday
Musician Jimi Hendrix’s birthday
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nBirthday of Bill Nye, the Science Guy
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nAstronomer Anders Celsius’s birthday
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nAnniversary of the invention of the friction match
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nNew-Math Guy Edward Begle’s birthday
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nBirthday of Women Air Force Service Pilot Dora Dougherty Strother
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Birthday of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee
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nBirthday of artist Frederic Crowninshield
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nTie One On Day in the U.S.
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n(Day before Thanksgiving in the U.S.)
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n(Day before Thanksgiving in the U.S.)
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nPlan ahead:
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