Who were the Tamil Tigers?

Wow, so much untold information. Thanks alex, a great video.

the amount of misinformation said in this video , sinhalese ppl burned down " the JAFFNA library" why ? because sinhalese were jealous, and were scared of our history, our pure language and rich background and they tried everything to steal our history by lying, writing books that is full of misinformation and stealing tamils merits and creating a fake nationalisme, ppl thinking LTTE is terrorism , the L stands for LIBERATION, let that sink in, imagine ppl stealing ur country, ur culture, ur territory, ur education, ur jobs, and y'all are going to do nothing ? exactly, please educate urself because Tamils were never wrong, even the captain died because he thought it was going to be a " professional meeting" and sinhalese army trapped him and killed him, the amount of sinhalese raping, torturing innocent tamil citizens, nah this video is a L please guys educate urself, Tamil will live forever, oldest language in the world, classical language, purest form, haters mad 😉

The day when srilankan people and their dirty politicians understand the fact that United we stand divided we fall they will prosper. Srilanka even after a indipendent eelam would have been greatly benefitted by eelam, how? Back then if the emotions of the tamil people was respected today eelam would have greatly supported srilanka. The dirty Chinese and other wicked countries would have been kept off.

That's a very interesting video, thanks! Can you do one about the atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan Army and the different governments?

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Tamils of both Nadu and Eelam deserve a separate country. It's ok if the Eelam Tamils want a separate Tamil Eelam from Tamil Nadu.

😭😭 whose this guy spreading bs and lies.

This is the DISINFORMATION. You are framing the genocide of Eelam Tamils by the Sri Lankan state as a “victory against Terrorism”, and are using resources by the SL government (which have been deemed unreliable repeatedly by Tamil genocide-survivor groups, international NGOs and even the UN). You are obviously are so biased and in favour of the Sri Lankan government, given that even the UN (despite cooperating with the Sri Lankan government during the genocidal war) has released multiple reports (2015 OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka, 2012 Report of Secretary-General on UN action in Sri Lanka, 2011 Panel of Experts report) documenting mass atrocities carried out by the Sri Lankan army against Tamils, including systematic widespread sexual violence, disappearances and torture. You haven’t even watched major documentaries screened at the UN on the final stages of the genocidal war, including Callum Macrae’s 2015 No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka.

In the 1950s-1970s, Tamils peacefully protested for education rights and equal political representation from a racist regime that was Sinhala Buddhist Extremist. What did they get in return? Multiple anti-Tamil pogroms carried out by Sinhalese mobs & security forces that was orchestrated by the government (1956, 1958, 1961, 1977, 1981 and Black July on 1983), where thousands of Tamils were murdered and subjected to unimaginable sexual violence and torture. Tamils only picked up armed resistance as a last resort against continued genocidal massacres and pogroms by the state, and many of us were forced to flee our homeland because of state terrorism.

LASTLY, when was Jaffna 50% Sinhalese before the war?? If you are so into using the Sri Lankan government resources, didn’t you even bother to check the demographic statistics by the department of statistics and census before the war? Even that says that in 1971, Jaffna was only 2.9% Sinhalese and 92.07% Tamils. Stop spreading disinformation on behalf of the Sri Lankan government, and know your privilege. Our stories of the atrocities we went through have been twisted enough by western folks who have not even a remote connection to the Tamil community.

Kundalini power is completely removed from all Tamil tiger moments past and present members.

In 2050:
Sinhalese: We are the original natives of 🇱🇰🇱🇰.
Tamils: No. We were here even before Vijayan.
Muslims: Who gives a fuc*. We are the majority now. 😂😂

you can’t just skip out key information and create a completely false narrative, especially when your a journalist you should know better. Firstly, you made this entirely one sided and not focusing on why they did this. Secondly, there’s some false facts. I mean if you think the tigers are bad look at what the Sri Lankan government did… down to genocide, land grabs, funding, the power they have over international media, Keenie meenie etc. Literally find it impossible that you made this video if you actually did proper research you would of seen all this. All you had to do was create a fair video showing both sides with the actual historical events and let the viewers decide but no you don’t . L video fr

30yeras black history ended now Tamil, Muslime Sinhala we all are together at least even now we can understand this war and racism panting in our mind as a political strategy why because they can't control us as unity this all top politician tamill,sinahal even Muslims all together try to divide otherwise they can not conducting the own wealth and unethical thing so now we are here this is time for change this unethical black political culture

Absolutely false video. Don’t poke your nose in matters you do not have full context of. Even an idiot could gather more accurate information about the genocide and our defenders from even western media. The horrific acts committed by the government on innocent Tamils are obvious. How much did you get paid to portray Tamils and the tigers with fiction?

Truthly.. Great job.

As you are ever-so obsessed with credentials despite referring to the most white-washed and false resources, let me address my lived experiences anchored with my qualifications so you dare not dispute what I say. I am an Eelam Tamil gender-based violence counsellor with a decade of frontline experience in ancestral-based crisis intervention, decolonized mental health, community organizing and liberatory research and writing. Your video has caused great harm to me and members of my community, and I am utterly outraged by its disinformation.

Your blatant lies have triggered genocide survivors' PTSD, as they have first-hand accounts of experiencing sexual violence at the hands of the genocidal Sri Lankan army. Your outrageous reasonings that such forms of violence against our people is understandable war tactics is downright disgusting as you are supporting the Sri Lankan state war crimimals. Most importantly, according to ICRC, rape and other forms of sexual violence, when committed in the context of a genocidal war either international or non-international, constitute violations under international humanitarian law (IHL). 

As a supposed researcher and teacher, you have a duty to conduct thorough research and consult with Tamil genocide survivors when addressing such sensitive issues. It is also your responsibility as a white-privileged man to support the Eelam Tamil community in their fight for liberation from the 75 years and ongoing SL state genocidal violence by amplifying their voices, rather than attempting to speak on their behalf and spread disinformation.

In this vein, if you do not remove this video in 24 hours, we will be filing mass complaints to the school you are currently teaching at, Cambridge International School Russia for racial profiling, miseducation online and being a danger to students by promoting sexual violence in reasoning that Sri Lankan's army's violence against Tamils is understandable war tactics

If you want real truth go an see channel four….. then you no really how is bad…how is great 👍 so watch channel 4

One nation ✊❤️😋 proud Sri Lankans. Sinhala ours cussings all Tamils people

Long Live Tamil Eelam 🔥

Brother just wanted to say this because I am a Sri Lankan Tamil aswell and I feel like it's really important that I as an Eelam Tamil have to say this. First of all I disagree with your fact that your saying the Tamil Tigers were terrorists and Sinhaleese people are peaceful. I am not saying that the Tamil Tigers are not always right and Not all Sinhaleese people are Bad! You need to Understand what brought the Tamil Tigers in the 1st place. It all started when the Tamils were starting to rise up with everything from education to wealth etc. As the country was under the control of the Singala people for a very long time they either didn't like us growing or scared that we would of overpowered them, so they started discrimination against all Tamils and all our parents, grandparents and their parents were living in hell during that stage. You can even search this famous picture where a group of singalaees teens strip a Tamil man naked and they all take pictures and laugh at him while he was in sorrow sitting on the ground. If you were in this position what would you have done? You would want to fight back right that's exactly what they did! That was when our leader Prabhakaran the only leader who had the guts to stand up for our people and get a freedom for our people. It's basically like how Black's would of got freedom in America, How indains got independence from the british! And I agree we did use Gaureila tactics but that was the only way we could of got atleast some peace today! Also I don't think before you made this video actually know the facts I am not being rude or anything but this whole video is not right it feels like you are one sided so you could say this is your opinion not facts! I am happy to help you educate on this further brother! Nandri 🙌🏾

Interesting and informative video.. However one small observation: I think the last portion of the video after 17 minutes appears to be your personal experience of traveling in Sri Lanka..While it is interesting, however it is irrelevant to the topic which you are discussing I.e "who are the tamil tigers".. Also with regard to caste system unlike in India and especially the state of Tamilnadu where caste is very relevant (I am saying this as a tamilian myself) in Sri Lanka tamils are a more homogenous group and caste while prevalent is not that relevant as the main source of conflict is ethnic against the dominant Sinhalese population..