Tamil Nadu

looking for Tamils like Renu to murder.

Rajapaksa was wise to speak a few words in Tamil while announcing the victory over the Tigers.

This brought prosperity to the Tamil Muslim community.

The ad proclaims that the Dappankuthu is an energetic dance prominent in Tamil cinema.

The song Cinema Cinema commemorates the 75th anniversary of Tamil cinema.

In early 2000. the Department of Tamil Islamic Literature was set up in the University of Madras.

Sadly, the Tamils now living in the Jaffna districts in the northern and eastern parts of the island are probably descended from Tamils who were also victims of the same external attacks.

Peace came about only with the total and unconditional defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels.

July 15 Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

This was the largest massacre of Muslim civilians by the LTTE to date.

The final throes of the war last year were horrific, with 20,000 40,000 civilians (mostly ethnic Tamils) killed in a period of a few months by both the Sri Lankan government forces and the Tigers.

No significant special efforts have been made to reach out to the Tamil speaking minority in order to understand better and address those legitimate concerns that found illegitimate expression through the LTTE.

A first step in the national healing process must include exploring in a public way the grievances of the country s minorities, both Tamil and Muslim, and discussing the violations perpetrated by the LTTE and the government during the conflict.

Now lakhs of Tamil Muslims are spread over in GCC countries and also in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.

The world's first Tamil Islamic Literature Conference was held in Trichy in 1973.

Rajapaksa, for his part, has eased some of the travel restrictions in the Tamil dominated north after opening up sealed camps where more than 270,000 Tamils were interned for months.

In Sri Lanka, a decades long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority

This year, that one hospital will give back sight to more than 300,000 people in Tamil Nadu, India.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

The armed group LTTE, in gross violation of its commitments, continues such recruitment.

In Parliament, the Government has the support of a number of political parties, including those of the Tamil and Muslim communities.

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

Generally Tamil Muslims are involved in various trades like retail, mutton shops, shops in foreign bazaar.

In Tamil Nadu, the school education of the Tamil Muslims is above average compared to general literacy level.

It was reported that the above mentioned 13 persons are being kept in detention in Wellikadai Prison in Colombo. All these persons were arrested on ethnic grounds, i.e. for the simple fact of being ethnic Tamils, and under suspicion of involvement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the main armed opposition group.

Thousands of Tamil Tiger fighters have deserted. A rebel army has dwindled to a fanatical few.

As her father was an Indian Air Force official, she studied in various parts of India, mainly in North India.

Nobody underplays the LTTE s contribution to the 2009 savagery but, with the Tigers leaders all dead, international attention should now be focused overwhelmingly on holding the government accountable for its failure to accept its responsibility to protect its own people.

BRUSSELS Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country s Tamil minority.

Weakening the Tigers militarily has thus always been a necessary condition for achieving a political settlement with Sri Lanka s Tamils.

Indeed, no effort should be spared to get skeptical Tamil groups to participate in the forthcoming peacemaking.

Few came with any deep understanding of the dynamics of the political conflict between militant Tamils and the Sri Lankan state.

The Tamil Tigers led a ruthless campaign for an independent territory against Sri Lanka s government for most of the past three decades.

The epic Seerapuranam by Umaru Pulavar is dated to the 17th century and still considered as the crowning achievement of Tamil Muslim literature.

Of course, it may take some time for the Tamils and their leaders to learn the mutual tolerance and self discipline of democratic government.

There is a substantial diaspora of Tamil Muslims, particularly in South East Asia, which has seen their presence as early as the 13th century.

As an eight year old, he and his parents fled the Sri Lankan capital because Singhalese mobs were roaming the city, looking for Tamils like Renu to murder.

The earliest Tamil Muslim literary works could be traced to the 14th century in the form of Palsanthmalai, a small work of eight stanzas.

But, with the fractured opposition rallying behind Fonseka and a moderate Tamil party also coming out in support of him, this election may produce a surprise result.

So Rajapaksa must offer the Tamil people a political compromise, perhaps including some cabinet positions, as well as the promise of a revived economy.

The team s members also knew that Sri Lanka s government had wide support among UN member states, and that the LTTE had none at all.

It is also wrong to conflate Islamic terrorism with that of the Basque ETA, Sri Lanka s Tamil Tigers, or the Irish Republican Army.

Indeed, the LTTE has been accused of a range of human rights violations, in addition to such killings, including abduction, child conscription, and using civilians as human shields.