The Tamil Eelam Liberation Struggle: State Terrorism and Ethnic Cleansing (1948 - 2009)

The prime objective of my involvement in this research is to present a clean picture of the immediate and fundamental causes for the launch of the Tamil Eelam freedom struggle by a chronological record of the events. Further, it is a historical necessity to make the world realise that the struggle for Tamil Eelam is not a demand for separation but an attempt to retrieve the independent Tamil Eelam which was lost. It is the compulsion of circumstances that it must be shown to the world with irrefutable evidence that the LTTE, which has been incessantly carrying on the struggle, is not a terrorist organisation but a freedom movement. Again, the world must be made to understand beyond any doubt that the ruling class of Sri Lanka follows the policy of ultra-Buddhist Sinhalese superiority and all their activities against the Tamils are the product of terrorism. This must be shouted from rooftops so that the world realises this.

It is also necessary to make it crystal clear that the two major parties of Sri Lanka which alternately rule the country always secure power by focussing on the ethnic problems of the Tamils, and are intent upon unleashing all those acts which will oppress and even destroy the Tamils. The only strength of the ultra-Buddhist Sinhalese governments of Sri Lanka is their numerical majority. They also have armed forces which are one hundred percent Sinhalese. Having both of these as their strengths, and receiving military assistance from the countries of the world through mischievous propaganda, they are engaged in all the acts which will totally remove the (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) LTTE and the Tamil people from Sri Lanka.