"Later, in the 1980s, the LTTE banned caste discrimination altogether which further eliminated a number of the accompanying practices. In the LTTE war cemeteries, the movement has defied the caste
system by erecting monuments for all martyrs side by side, irrespective of their caste. Reportedly, there are many inter-caste marriages within the movement."Caste-Blind does not mean casteless[தொடர்பிழந்த இணைப்பு]
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"Thileepan the fighter chose a different mode, non-violence and adopted the principle of ‘Ahimsa’ and ‘fasting’, believing that India would respect its own hallowed concept. History was to record the opposite, in that Thileepan had to continue the fast, determinedly not taking a drop of water, and was allowed to die attaining martyrdom on 26 September 1987. It was a deathblow on the hopes of all peace loving people who sincerely believed in Mahathma Gandhi’s principle of Ahimsa and non-violence. A weapon in Mahathma Gandhi’s non-violent arsenal that was adroitly utilised by him in his fight against imperialism, did not work when Gandhi’s nation took upon itself the imperialist mode."Tamil Nation commemorates Thileepan’s Martyrdom
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"To distance the LTTE from being one religion among many, competing with them and thereby creating dissent and dysfunction, new secular rituals had to be constructed by LTTE ideologists to get the hero away from kinship based religious rituals, make him a property of the public and transcend parochial thinking. The veneration around him is not religious; it is commemorative and in its sentiment it does not transcend the honorific rituals that are usually performed even for living outstanding persons in public life in the Tamil land. The model for the veneration of the hero is the secular military salutation of fallen soldiers in the battlefield." Resistance and Martyrdom in the Process of State Formation of Tamil Eelam
"Adopting Lenin's teaching that armed struggle 'must he ennobled by the enlightening and organising influence of socialism', our movement has chartered its political programme integrating the national struggle with class struggle defining our ultimate objective as national liberation and socialist revolution. With the conviction that armed struggle is the highest expression of political practice and must be channeled into a process of socialist revolution, the Tiger movement, from its earliest stages, engaged in developing and building political and military bases among the popular masses." Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The Birth of the Tiger Movement - Anton S. Balasingham
"We are no racists and no violent war-mongers; we do not regard the Sinhala people as our enemies or as our opponents. We are no enemies of democratic principles. We fight only for the fundamental democratic political rights of our people." பிராபகரனின் உரையில் இருந்து
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"There were other reasons also that encouraged us to engage in the peace process. Constructive engagement in the peace process is a viable means to secure legitimacy for our liberation organisation as the representative organ of our people. We also wanted to internationalise our struggle and win the support and sympathy of the international community. Furthermore, there is a need to convince the world community that we are not war-mongers addicted to armed violence, but rather, firmly and sincerely committed to non-violent peace process. Finally and most importantly, we wanted to demonstrate beyond doubt that the Sinhala racist ruling elites would not accept the fundamental demands of the Tamils and offer a reasonable political solution. It was with these objectives we participated in the peace process." LTTE to intensify struggle for self-determination if reasonable political solution is not offered soon
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"Later, in the 1980s, the LTTE banned caste discrimination altogether which further eliminated a number of the accompanying practices. In the LTTE war cemeteries, the movement has defied the caste
system by erecting monuments for all martyrs side by side, irrespective of their caste. Reportedly, there are many inter-caste marriages within the movement."Caste-Blind does not mean casteless[தொடர்பிழந்த இணைப்பு]
