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Topic: Eelam Revolutionary Organisation Of Students


  
  Welcome to UTHR, Sri Lanka
Anandarajan, was the trivial one of his having organised a cricket match of Jaffna Schools versus the Sri Lankan Army, in the belief that it was in the spirit of the cease fire.
The main thrust of student action now was to reform the militant movement through criticism and persuasion, to provide relief for refugees, to mediate between the public and the militants and to foster unity among the militant groups.
Students were made heart broken and angry by an opinion expressed by a member of the staff who said that the students were making an absurd issue over one missing person when several L.T.T.E. men were dying fighting the Sri Lankan army.
www.uthr.org /BP/volume1/Chapter5.htm   (10756 words)

  
 Other Eelam Liberation Groups
On July 27, 1975 Alfred Duriappah, the Tamil Mayor of Jaffna and chief organiser of the SLFP in the region, went to the Varadaraja Perumal temple at Ponnalai in Jaffna.
EELAM REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION OF STUDENTS or EELAM REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATIONS (EROS)
EROS:- Eelam Revolutionary Organisers (EROS) were reported to be conducting two camps in the districts of Ramnad and Pasumpon Muthuramalingam districts.
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 Shankar Rajee - Founder-member of ENLF (Eelam National Liberation Front)
He was also the leader of whatever was left of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation (EROS), the oldest of all the Tamil militant groups which came up in the 1970s in response to growing Sinhala chauvinism.
Shankar Rajee, 55, is a founder-member of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation (EROS), one of the earliest militant groups.
MSM: When you were a student in London you talked about how you studied Angola and Palestine to learn how they dealt with their problems, looking for similar solutions.
www.tamilnation.org /tamileelam/shankarrajee.htm   (7600 words)

  
 Book Encyclopedia - Web Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Motivated by her father's wish to support the Tamil efforts to win independence from the majoirty Sinhalese population, her father became politically known as Arular and was a founder member of The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation Of Students (EROS), a militant Tamil group.
When residing in Sri Lanka, Maya lived with her family on her grandparent’s remote farm; a collection of huts without electricity or running water.
As a teenager, Arulpragasam was a talented and creative student, eventually winning a place at London's Central Saint Martins Art School, where she studied fine art, film and video.
www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=M.I.A.   (1653 words)

  
 Other Tamil Eelam Groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This organisation was formally founded in 1979 though it was in existence since 1968 as an unstructured organisation.
TELO leaders confined three dissident cadres of their organisation, two of whom later escaped and sought shelter in the room of one Dhayaparan, a Sri Lankan Tamil student in the Madras Medical College hostel.
Military training given to TELO by the RAW in India: Five camps organised by Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) were reported to be running in the districts of Ramnad (3 camps) and Salem (2 camps).
www.tamiltigers.net /othergroups.html   (4636 words)

  
 ProTEG News Letter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Several obnoxious clauses in the emergency regulations, when they were last in force, needed to be expunged.'' These revisions, “were effected to the emergency regulations, only to be put into effect in an eventuality, and for the security apparatus to be in a state of preparedness'', the President's office said.
Jaffna, the heartland of "Tamil Eelam", particularly, is Vellala dominated.
In fact, he has fairly submitted that without affecting the citizens students be it open category or reservation special reservation which is sought for would have non-citizens, i.e., Sri Lankan Refugees students on humanitarian grounds and that extra seats have to be created and allocated for such students.
www.eelamupdate.org /Dec2003.htm   (4280 words)

  
 FLASHBACK OF TAMILEELAM STRUGGLE - A Chronology of Events - News and Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) is formed.
TUF is renamed Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and passes the "Vaddukkoddai resolution" to restore a "free, sovereign, secular, socialist State of Tamil Eelam based on the right to self-determination" to safeguard the very existence of the Tamil nation in the country.
TNT is renamed and reorganized as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, with Uma Maheswaran as its leader.
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 Breaking Recurring Themes in the Cycles of War and Peace in Sri Lanka
Political demonstrations are also organised by political parties in the south, and political patronage and vestiges of feudalism also distort the democracy of the south, although freedom of speech and democratic opposition are the accepted political norm there — despite infringements of this norm from time to time.
However, the everyday activities of any organisation may inadvertently be making a contribution to the conflict and a peacebuilding perspective encourages an appreciation of this and encourages the development of positive peacemaking activities within the existing activities and role of the organisation.
Guerilla organisations may be tempted to the negotiating table to establish their legitimacy but the temptation for them to return to the conflict where they have a known competitive advantage and where they are familiar with the rules and outcomes may be overwhelming.
www.c-r.org /pubs/occ_papers/Breakall.htm   (18301 words)

  
 M.I.A. - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
When she was six monthsold, her family moved back to their native Sri Lanka.
Motivated by her father'swish to support the Tamil efforts to win independence from the majoirty Sinhalese population, her father became politically known as Arular and was a founder member of The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation Of Students (EROS), a militant Tamil group.
When residing in Sri Lanka, Maya lived with her family on hergrandparent’s remote farm; a collection of huts without electricity or running water.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=M.I.A   (1554 words)

  
 illSTATiC:San Francisco Underground Clubs
Maya was born in Hounslow, London but spent little time there as, at only 6 months old, her parents moved the family back to their native Sri Lanka.
Motivated by her fathers wish to support the Tamil efforts to win independence from the majority Sinhalese population, her father became politically known as Arular and was a founder member of EROS (the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students), a militant Tamil group.
Maya was a talented and creative student, eventually winning a place at London's Central Saint Martins Art School, where she studied fine art, film and video.
www.illstatic.com /search_detail.php?partyid=1679   (782 words)

  
 Hizb ut Tahrir UK threatens U.S. Institute of Peace research fellow with lawsuit over terrorism study: UK police urged ...
In the light of these inaccurate allegations, we kindly ask that you remedy this situation immediately by issuing a prominent written retraction and apology at the earliest opportunity that points out that the allegations made by your report were in fact incorrect and unfounded.
Student leaders warned this week that several campuses are being targeted by the Al-Muhajiroun, which aims to create an Islam state in the UK, at this year's freshers' fairs.
According to one government source, the group is organising meetings on at least a weekly basis on university campuses throughout the country, attracting a significant number of sympathisers.
www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/56   (12777 words)

  
 The Hindu : `No provision for pluralistic democracy in LTTE proposals'
The October 31 proposals by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam give "flesh and substance'' to the Thimpu Principles outlined in 1985, Tamil political leaders who were involved in the first attempt to find a negotiated settlement to Sri Lanka's separatist crisis, told The Hindu today.
The Tamil United Liberation Front, the LTTE and four other militant groups — the Peoples' Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, the Eelam Peoples' Revolutionary Liberation Front, the Eelam Revolutionary Students' Organisation and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation — attended the India-mediated talks and came out with the Thimpu Principles on July 13, 1985.
On the opposition by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna — that the proposals were a stepping-stone to a separate Eelam — Mr.
www.hinduonnet.com /2003/11/04/stories/2003110400731200.htm   (466 words)

  
 history of Eelam & srilanka
Tamilians are in Tamil Eelam and Sri Lanka facing for their own lives, but Sri Lankan government foreign minister repeatedly states this is an internal affair, no outside comments are welcome, and they are getting money for the weapons from other countries to kill Tamilians.
The people of Tamil Eelam mark the occasion with activities such as prayer, cultural events and community service in memory of all their martyred heroes.
To hear that the occupying Sri Lankan forces have destroyed and demolished one of such memorial fields in Jaffna is distressing and heartbreaking but is an obvious example of the inhuman morale of the forces.
home.arcor.de /sureshjens/history_of_eelam__srilanka.htm   (19344 words)

  
 Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business
The LTTE established the Tamil Eelam Department of Justice and Law in July 1994 headed by Eliyathamby Pararajasingham who had been a Member of Parliament for the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) militant group in the 1989 Parliament.
Pararajasingham stated recently in Batticaloa that the duty of these institutions was "to maintain law and order as mandated by the LTTE leadership".
Therefore, it may be concluded that these are institutions of the LTTE organisation, which militarily dominates certain parts of North and East, that are carrying out the law and order mandate of the LTTE.
www.sundayobserver.lk /2002/12/15/fea02.html   (817 words)

  
 Menneskerettigheder - CASE OF VIJAYANATHAN AND PUSPARAJAH v. FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Where a request for recognition of refugee status has been definitively rejected, the circular of 17 May 1985 requires prefects of departments and the Paris Commissioner of Police, when the person concerned attends at the prefecture, to communicate to him a direction to leave French territory within one month, on pain of court proceedings.
After fifteen days he must report to the proper authorities and inform them of the arrangements he has made for organising his departure; the time-limit can be extended if the alien puts forward valid reasons and shows that he has made real preparations for departure, in particular a definite date for departure.
The OFPRA is also in contact with non-governmental organisations (Médecins sans frontières) who are present on the ground and in appropriate cases supply invaluable details and testimony on the development of the local situation.
www.menneskeret.dk /menneskeretieuropa/konventionen/baggrund/domme/ref00000385   (4576 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior... World
The World Health Organisation (WHO), which estimates the number of blind people worldwide at 40-45 million, says four out of five cases are preventable and most are treatable.
Rashid’s family was brought to the hospital from their home in Bangladesh’s southern Chandpur district by childhood blindness project (CBP), a Non-Government Organisation financed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in UK.
And the passion." Mehta was mentor to generations of music students during 33 years has music director and conductor of the American Youth Symphony, where he was known as an inspiring taskmaster.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /02oct22/inter.htm   (4893 words)

  
 developments in srilanka
Only recently four of the five main organisations have come together in one front-the Eelam National Liberation Front consisting of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation, Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students, Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The fifth organisation, the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, though not part of the front, also began cooperating with it.
All that is claimed that both sided have had their say, and that the Tamil representatives charged the Sri Lanka government with continuing violations of the cease-fire and attacks on Tamil civilians by the armed forces.
cpim.org /marxist/198502_marxist_srilanka_ramdas.htm   (6770 words)

  
 Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka
Within the Marxist wing of the Tamil national movement, the EPRLF split from the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) in 1980.
In later years, the EPRLF emerged as a favoured ally of the Indian government and was returned as the leading party in the North East Provincial Council created under the terms of the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord.
Advocating a separate state of Tamil Eelam, the TULF achieved huge success in the 1977 parliamentary elections and was installed as the official opposition.
www.c-r.org /accord/sri/accord4/key_actors.shtml   (4066 words)

  
 ACSLU Document 34
As an expatriate organisation we have in the past been hampered in our representations to the authorities in this country about the activities of the Tamil separatist groups operating here by the fact that the LTTE is a legitimate political organisation in Sri Lanka.
ACSLU was one of the few organisations which protested the commencement of negotiations with the LTTE in December 1994.
The concept of Eelam involves the creation of a "homeland" for Tamils in the sovereign territory of Sri Lanka.
www.spur.asn.au /acs34.htm   (1779 words)

  
 PULP/Music/MIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The first clue that something important was brewing was her mix tape, Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol 1, named after a Bush-ism that was designed to both discourage bootlegging and remind the public of that pesky axis of evil.
The portrayal of terrorists in the media is a moot point - Maya's father founded the Sri Lankan freedom fighters Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students, and became a shadowy figure in her life.
The family fled from their native Sri Lanka to England in 1986 after hostilities between the ruling Sinhalese and the Tamil minority got increasingly violent.
www.pulp.co.nz /view.asp?websection_name=music   (214 words)

  
 Talking to the Tigers
In July and August 1985, two rounds of talks were held in Thimphu, Bhutan, between the Sri Lankan Government and the Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF), which comprised the LTTE, the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) and the Eelam Revolutionary Students' Organisation (EROS).
The People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), which were outside the ENLF, broadly agreed to the political strategy set forth.
It is a tragedy that the Third Eelam War commenced at a time when Chandrika Kumaratunga was preparing significant and far-reaching proposals to restructure the political system.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/fline/fl1602/16020530.htm   (2671 words)

  
 GN Online: Tigers to take part in local elections
But, the main rival party of the guerrillas, the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) believes that the main reason for replacement of nominations was to allow LTTE members to be nominated.
Since they started their battle for an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the north and eastern parts of the country, the Tigers have never contested elections, but some of their sympathisers have been in parliament.
The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) was one such group which was closely working with the LTTE.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=82014   (420 words)

  
 Interview with K.V. Balakumar - humanrights.de
K.V. Balakumar is formerly the leader of Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS).
So from 1970 onwards, we put a lot of effort and labour into organising a military structure to defend ourselves — so we are proud of it.
You are a small people, you are not able to organise an army — it is not possible, you are up against the whole international order — no one is going to support you — this is the way that the arguments go.
www.humanrights.de /doc_es/countries/sri-lanka/balakumar.html   (3794 words)

  
 ACSLU Document 33
Apart from the status of the LTTE the status of other political groups advocating the creation of Eelam on a part of Sri Lanka should be considered.
In a number of studies issued during the last decade ACSLU and its forerunner organisation had warned against the consequences of the policy adopted by the SL Government [NOTE 2] ignored.
The LTTE have not directly supported the proposals as they hope to secure their Eelam objective by military means, their ambitions for Eelam extend far beyond the Northern and Eastern Provinces which the Government's proposals seem to be conceding as the basis of the Eelam Region.
www.infolanka.com /org/srilanka/issues/acslu33.html   (4119 words)

  
 Daily Mirror Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The LTTE's chief motivator and a former head of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), V. Balakumar, is to be the senior representative of the LTTE in the Joint Task Force (JTF) to be set up for the development of the North-East, according to informed sources.
In the first half of the nineties, when Jaffna was under the control of the Tigers, Balakumar would give powerful motivational talks to potential recruits in the schools there.
Four outstanding personalities and six distinguished old Rajans, will be honoured at the 'Prasada Pranama' festival organised by the Dharmaraja College Arts Foundation, to be held at the College Auditorium at 2 p.m.
www.dailymirror.lk /2002/10/18/News/3.html   (790 words)

  
 Peace Process of Sri Lanka
Kandasamy Iyer Balanadarajah, Media Secretary of the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP), and co-funder of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), the latest in a spate of brutal killings that continue to be perpetrated in Colombo and the Eastern Province.
Vallautham Raveendran, Chairman Alaiyadyvenbu Pradeshiya Sabha and Deputy Organiser, EPDP Ampara District.
The nature of the killings and the persons targeted suggest involvement of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in these incidents.
www.peaceinsrilanka.org /insidepages/stories/PressRel160804.asp   (204 words)

  
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The victim belonged to the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), which is a strong supporter of breakaway Tamil rebel Karuna.
Nadarajah who lost the April elections but continued to work with his party closely and attached to the media unit of the party which also is involved in printing the party's newspaper.
He was formerly a ranking member of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), a Marxist Tamil separatist group.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/World2.asp?ArticleID=129166   (289 words)

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