Eelam: The war may be over but the idea lives on

The idea of a separate Tamil nation is not dead in Sri Lanka. There was a time when this was espoused with brutal violence by the dreaded LTTE. That violence has been leached out now to be replaced by a kind of limitless — and perhaps more potent — despair. There are reasons why the idea of a separate Tamil nation refuses to die. The chilling story of the LTTE and its lethal suicide bombers is well-known. The horrific retaliatory killing of its cadres...

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