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Posted on July 16th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
LTTE was able
to sustain the war for thirty years because the Tamil population supplied the
manpower and other support. If the Tamil civilians had refused to support the
LTTE and decided to support the Sri Lanka army instead, the Eelam wars would
have collapsed.
The Tamil civilians
had two choices, to be loyal to the central government which was looking after
their needs, such as salaries and food or to link with the LTTE which was engaging
in a separatist war. They chose the second alternative.
The Tamil civilians
in the north did nothing to help the Sri Lanka army bring the war to an end.
updated: Apr 27 2021, 01:51 ist
April 21 marks two years of the deadly Easter attacks in Sri Lanka led by Islamist groups like National Tauheed Jamaat (NTJ) and Jaamiyathul Millathu Ibrahim (JMI), drawing attention to the Islamic radicalisation in the island. Two years hence the attention is still on Islamic radicalisation. But what about other radicalisations in the island state?
Post-independence Sri Lanka in fact witnessed three radical movements – Sinhala, Tamil and Islamic – that were primarily youth revolts. Sinhala radicalism was spearheaded by the JVP, firstly in the early 1970s and later in the late 1980s. Tamil radical movement that initially started in a moderate manner in the 1950s turned militant in the early 1980s, principally led by the LTTE.