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Dr. Thusiyan Nandakumar

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▪️Editor-In-Chief @TamilGuardian ▪️ NHS GP ▪️Covering Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka, human rights & politics ▪️Views my own

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May 2009. Tamil Eelam. This is what the No Fire Zone looked like. These images are seared into the psyche of the Tamil nation. The entire world watched. Some even took notes. 17 years on there has been no accountability. No justice. No answers. We have not forgotten.
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🚨 Who is Wes Streeting? A look through his record on Tamil rights and justice for the genocide As @wesstreeting sets out to challenge Keir Starmer to become the next leader of the Labour party and Britain’s next Prime Minister, British Tamils are looking back on his record of years of engagement on accountability, genocide remembrance and Tamil self-determination. Over more than a decade in public life, Streeting has emerged as one of Labour’s most consistently vocal figures on Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam. From travelling to Geneva to lobby diplomats at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), to attending Tamil genocide commemorations, Heroes' Day (or Maaveerar Naal) remembrance events, Thai Pongal celebrations and Tamil Heritage Month gatherings, Streeting has repeatedly aligned himself with calls for international accountability and justice for atrocities committed against Eelam Tamils. His remarks have included references to genocide, support for Magnitsky sanctions, calls for International Criminal Court (ICC) referrals and criticism of Britain’s relationship with successive Sri Lankan governments.
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As usual, Sri Lankan media is ignoring the plethora of Tamil genocide remembrance events taking place across the North-East. I'm glad there is one English language outlet that is steadfast in its coverage.
Tamil Guardian@TamilGuardian

Day 2 of Tamil Genocide Remembrance Week marked in the North-East Commemorations marking the second day of Tamil Genocide Remembrance Week were held in the North-East on Wednesday (May 13), with events taking place in both Batticaloa and Jaffna. tamilguardian.com/content/mulliv…

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Sri Lankan soldiers tied up Tamils and cut off their heads. This is not an exaggeration. This is real testimony. No one has ever been held accountable. All those soldiers are still free today. _____ 📹Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields.
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50th anniversary of Vaddukoddai Resolution marked in Jaffna Tamils in Jaffna marked the 50th anniversary of the historic Vaddukoddai Resolution, which remains a pivotal declaration in the Tamil struggle for self-determination. tamilguardian.com/content/50th-a…
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🔴🟡 Vaddukoddai to Westminster - British Tamils mark 50th anniversary of landmark resolution British Tamils gathered at the UK Houses of Parliament on May 14, to launch the 'Tamil Political Framework Initiative' and mark the 50th anniversary of the Vaddukoddai Resolution, a landmark declaration calling for an independent state of Tamil Eelam. tamilguardian.com/content/vadduk…
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ITJP@itjpsl·
***WEBSITE LAUNCH*** @hrdag and the ITJP have been engaged in a long-term effort to restore the names and identities of those killed and disappeared in Sri Lanka since 1958, ensuring they are remembered with dignity and historical accuracy. We are releasing the names of individuals who were killed or disappeared during the period of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) deployment (October 1987 to March 1990) in the Northern and Eastern provinces: lkdd.itjpsl.com
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Kumanan@kumanan93·
The “Vaddukoddai Resolution 50 ( Golden Jubilee) Inaugural Event,” organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic Vaddukoddai Resolution, was held this evening near Meikandan Maha Vidyalayam, Pannagam, Vaddukoddai in Jaffna. The event was organized in remembrance of the historic Vaddukoddai Resolution adopted on May 14, 1976. As part of the programme, a ceremonial flame was lit and the 50th anniversary of the Vaddukoddai Resolution was commemorated by the “Vaddukoddai 50 Uprising Conference” organizing committee. #vaddukoddairesolution #vaddukoddairesolution50
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Where did Sri Lanka learn its tactics? Satellite images from inside the No Fire Zone show mortar craters arranged in precise formations, matching patterns lifted directly from a US Army field manual. This is not coincidence. It could not have carried out this genocide alone.
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May 13, 2009. Seventeen years ago. As Barack Obama addressed the world, the Sri Lankan state was bombing a makeshift hospital. For the second time in 24 hours. The US still did not intervene. The genocide continued. Thousands more would be killed in the days to come.
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Tamil Guardian@TamilGuardian·
🚨 50 years since Vaddukoddai Resolution demanded a sovereign Tamil Eelam Today marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Vaddukoddai Resolution,  a landmark declaration calling for the political independence of the Tamil nation. Spearheaded by SJV Chelvanayakam, the Resolution was adopted by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) on May 14, 1976. It remains a cornerstone of the Tamil for self-determination in Sri Lanka, concluding that an independent state of Tamil Eelam was needed to safeguard the very existence of the Tamil nation in Sri Lanka. tamilguardian.com/content/50-yea…
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An important intervention in Tamil Nadu’s assembly this week. The question now is whether the new Tamil Nadu government, led by Chief Minister Vijay, will act.
Tamil Guardian@TamilGuardian

🚨 VCK urges Tamil Nadu government to back independent Tamil Eelam Vanni Arasu, the legislative party leader of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), on Wednesday called on the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and the newly formed government led by Chief Minister Vijay Joseph to take steps in support of Eelam Tamils Speaking during the Assembly proceedings, Arasu stated that Eelam Tamils continue to suffer under what he described as a “Sinhala-Buddhist supremacist government” in Sri Lanka. He recalled that S. J. V. Chelvanayakam had struggled for nearly a quarter century through Gandhian ahimsa means for an independent Tamil Eelam, before Velupillai Prabhakaran later pursued the Tamil national struggle through armed resistance. He further stated that the Tamil Eelam liberation movement was crushed in May 2009 through the combined involvement of global powers and India, describing the final phase of the war as a genocide. Vanni Arasu said the Indo-Lanka agreement intended to address the political aspirations of Eelam Tamils remains unimplemented, and urged the Tamil Nadu government to initiate efforts supporting the right of Eelam Tamils to self-rule, including the restoration of an independent Tamil Eelam.

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📍Jaffna. The road to May 18 has begun. A float departed the Thileepan memorial in Jaffna yesterday, travelling across the northeast. Over the coming days it will pass through the Tamil homeland, marking 17 years since the peak of the genocide.
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A reminder that even during the carnage a Sri Lankan government official admitted bombing the so-called ‘No Fire Zone’. To this day, no one has been held responsible. 📹 via @AJEnglish
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🔴 17 years today - Another hospital shelled Artillery shells were fired at a makeshift hospital set up at a school in Mullivaikkal, killing dozens. HRW reported that nearly 1,000 patients were in the hospital at the time of the attack, including many wounded during the May 9-10 attacks. Read more ⬇️ tamilguardian.com/content/17-yea…
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This is wonderful.
Tamil Guardian@TamilGuardian

🚨 After 30 years in prison, Perarivalan joins Madras Bar A.G. Perarivalan, one of the convicts in the assassination case of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has officially enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Perarivalan, who spent more than 30 years in prison before being released by India’s Supreme Court in 2022, reportedly completed his law degree after his release and later cleared the All India Bar Examination before enrolling to practise at the Madras High Court.

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Look what they did to his son. 💔 They left him wrapped in a polythene bag. More than 3,200 people have been killed overnight. The carnage in the No Fire Zone is continuing.
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"messy compromise"? The war in Sri Lanka ended with tens of thousands of civilians killed in weeks. The lesson isn't that mediation failed. It's that when one party pursues extermination and the world looks away, there's no process left. Worth naming that clearly, Erik.
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Messy compromise is better than endless war. That may be the most important lesson from wars. I sat down with brilliant young Sri Lankans in From the Island podcast to discuss the Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 civil war - why was it so bloody, why was mediation long succesful before it failed. Norway had no obvious reason to be involved in Sri Lanka’s civil war. No colonial history. No strategic interest. No leverage. But we spent most of our life’s in ten long years to try to find a peaceful end. There are moments when a peace process isn’t failing because of poor mediation. It’s failing because one party has made a strategic calculation that war still serves them better than compromise. A mediator cannot override that. What we can do is stay in the room long enough that when the calculation shifts, there’s a process ready to receive it. We also got into the crisis of relevance for the UN, Chinas and Indias rise and the future hopes for wonderful Sri Lanka. lnkd.in/eXirVE8b Full episode on YouTube.

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