#tamil tiger

[probablyasocialecologist]

Israel has thus fully embraced the “war on terror” and richly profited from it. One of the most successful though bloody counterinsurgency battles of the early twenty-first century was the Sri Lankan government’s destruction of the Tamil Tigers militant group. Israel played a key, though largely unpublicized, part in Colombo’s successful campaign in a civil war that killed and disappeared more than 200,000 people, mostly Tamils, over a quarter-century that ended in 2009. Israel sold Kfir fighter jets and trained the Special Task Force, a brutal unit of the Sri Lankan police. Sri Lanka borrowed the Israeli playbook during the last stages of the civil war and ignored calls by NGOs, human rights organizations, and foreign governments to cease violence. The military stopped when the Tamil Tigers were completely decimated and Velupillai Prabhakaran, its leader, killed. Israel also helped generations of Sinhalese politicians build and maintain Sinhalese enclaves in the north and east of Sri Lanka, areas where most Tamils live. The aim was to create buffer zones around Tamil-majority areas and establish an unofficial occupation of Tamil territory. These plans continued after 2009 and Sinhala colonization has never stopped. These ideas were directly taken from Israel’s presence in the West Bank, where Palestinian sovereignty is denied with numerous fortified Jewish colonies. Israel signed a US$50 million deal with Sri Lanka in 2021 to upgrade the country’s Kfir jets.

Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

[tamlindudley]

[guerillas-of-history]

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

Also known as the Tamil Tigers

Organization that fought for an independent Tamil state, free from the oppressive Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government.

[briery]

Billions of Fireflies Light Up an Indian Wildlife Reserve in Rare Footage Captured by Sriram Murali.

[woahllluv]

[mwsnewshindi]

The 53 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023

The 53 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023

What are the biggest movies of 2023? From Hollywood, we are expecting nine DC and Marvel superhero movies. (After a long time, DC has more titles on the calendar than Marvel Studios). A new Ant-Man, Aquaman, Flash, Shazam, Captain Marvel, Spider-Verse, and Guardians of the Galaxy film is on the docket for 2023 — Jason Momoa, Brie Larson, Chris Pratt, and Paul Rudd jump into spandex again — along…

[lilianeruyters]

V.V. Ganeshananthan || Brotherless Night

Shortlist 2024 Brotherless Night has two protagonists: main character Sashi and the civil war that torments Sri Lanka. Through Sashi, Ganeshananthan confronts her readers with the process of ending up in civil war and with the atrocities that go along with it. At some points Brotherless Night is harsh, at other points the love of Sashi for her family and friends lightens up the plot. Sashi is…

[drjacquescoulardeau]

THE DRAVIDIAN EMPIRE, AN EPIC FAILURE

A novel of political fiction that does not reach science-fiction but wants to tell us a lot about the modern world and what the choices are for us in this decaying future. The pattern, the Gestalt of this book seems to be that no matter what humans try to do, good or bad, progressive or reactionary, democratic or dictatorial, there is no hope and no future for those initiatives. Any attempt at changing the decaying world we live in is doomed to be a failure.

What is history? The production of what happens in our world, in fact, in the cosmos, and no human individual, no human crowd, no human anything can control or change the course of such events. If by any chance we want to understand what makes history, we have to consider billions, maybe trillions of parameters in the cosmos and we, the human dwarves we are, do not even control half a dozen of them and our vanity makes us believe we can command the cosmos because we want to be gods. In the old days and in other civilizations than the Western denied Bible, they were humble enough to give this power to a God that was not of the human species.

Here Salman Rushdie follows a witch bewitched by a goddess who pretends she can create a whole empire from a bag, or rather a sack of seeds, and this leads to a total and pitiful defeat and absolute termination of the attempt, but it means Salman Rushdie is predicting that all the positive elements his witch tries, religious tolerance, education for boys and girls equally, women’s rights, gender-friendly policies, peace and coexistence, and finally freedom of expression are all doomed to fail and crumble as soon as they reach some height. In other words, his novel and his vision are the rewriting of the Babel Tower myth.

Sorry boys and girls, no future for any progressive dream, just as much as for any regressive nightmare. Life and history are neither a dream nor a nightmare. They are nothing but cosmic determinism governed by the cosmos itself, and we can be happy with the fact our world is not in a black hole. But after all, maybe that’s the destiny and fate of humanity, to end up in a bottomless black hole.

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

10 Pages

Islamic Studies,  *  India,  *  Dravidian Linguistics,  *  Fatalism,  *  Vijayanagara

[kuyavancreations]

He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights. Psalms 18:33

அவர் என் கால்களை மான்களுடைய கால்களைப்போலாக்கி, என்னுடைய உயர்தலங்களில் என்னை நிறுத்துகிறார்.  சங்கீதம் 18 : 33

#deer #wildlife #nature #whitetail #bowhunting #outdoors #deerseason #hunt #archery #wildlifephotography #hunter #naturephotography #whitetaildeer #buck #animals #photography #huntingseason #whatgetsyououtdoors #elk #wild #huntinglife #antlers #bigbuck #bowhunter #art #deerhunter #animal #forest #hunting #deerhunting 

[indianhobbytamil]

2 Rupees Half tiger currency Note Price || Indian Hobby Tamil

[broadcastnewsarchive]

A suicide plane flown by a Tamil Tigers pilot impacts a building in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as filmed by the Sri Lanka Navy

Coverage by SLRC

8:04 AM IST (0234Z) 2009/02/21

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[tamlindudley]

do you know any resources about the tamil genocide? i have watched sri lanka’s killing fields but looking to know more about the history of the persecution of eelam tamils

I’m sorry, I actually don’t. This is stuff I grew up hearing about and knowing, you know? Not something I’ve had to research. I’ll put this ask in some relevant tags so maybe people can help out!

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

M.I.A. - Paper Planes 2008

"Paper Planes" is a song by British hip hop artist M.I.A. It was released on 11 February 2008 as the third single from her second studio album, Kala (2007). It samples English rockband the Clash's 1982 song "Straight to Hell", leading to its members being credited as co-writers. A downtempo alternative hip hop, pop track combining African folk music elements, the song has a less dance-oriented sound compared to other songs on the album. Its lyrics, inspired by M.I.A.'s own problems obtaining a visa to work in the USA, satirise American perceptions of immigrants from war-torn countries, and said that the issue was probably "them thinking that I might to [sic] fly a plane into the Trade Center".

M.I.A. had wanted to work with American producer Timbaland for the album Kala, but her application for a long-term US work visa was rejected. This was allegedly due to her family's connection to the Tamil guerrillas, commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, a claim M.I.A. denied. Her visa problems were also attributed to her criticism of the Sri Lankan government's discrimination and alleged atrocities committed against the Tamils, with whom M.I.A. shares an ethnic and cultural heritage. She expressed this on her politicised debut album Arular. The unexpected success of "Paper Planes" paralleled M.I.A.'s condemnations of the Sri Lankan government's war crimes against the Tamils, generating accusations that she supported terrorism.

The song received widespread acclaim from contemporary critics, who complimented its musical direction and the subversive, unconventional subject matter. It won awards from the Canadian Independent Music Awards and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and earned a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. The song has received praise in publications such as NME, Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, each naming it among either the best songs of the 2000s decade or of all time. The review aggregator Acclaimed Music reports it as the second-most acclaimed song of the 21st century.

"Paper Planes" was used in the theatrical trailer for the 2008 stoner comedy Pineapple Express, directed by David Gordon Green, which catapulted the song to mainstream success in the US. "Paper Planes" and the DFA remix appear on the soundtrack to Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire, released in 2008. The video game Far Cry 3 (2012) begins with "Paper Planes" used in the opening cinematic sequence.

"Paper Planes" received a total of 68,9% yes votes!

[mutant-distraction]

sub-adult Bengal tiger, gracefully resting on a weathered tree trunk by the serene waters of Mudumalai.

📸Syed Yaseen (@yaseensyed691)

( Bengal Tiger | Tiger | Tamil Nadu | Wildlife )

[ghelgheli]

on the subject of suicide bombing, it is conveniently neglected by a lot of islamophobes that many of the contemporary tactics of suicide bombing (including "the vest") were developed and pioneered not by any islamist organization but by the earlier, secular (& socialist), and otherwise decidedly non-muslim tamil tigers. the weapon emerges from the perceived and contingent material demands of the situation, not from essential theology.