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DIY Guide - How to build a nation like "Tamil Eelam" by hand....
by israeli.agent | March 26, 2009 at 10:13 am
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Have you ever wondered why everyone know about only the tamil version of "Genocide in Sri Lanka"
Are you one of those persons who belive that the official language of Sri Lanka is "Srilankan"?
Have you ever suspected how an illeterate forest thug like "Brigadier Veerappan" who was shot dead like a dog by a Special Task Force of Tamilnadu Police could manage to publish his idea of "greater tamil nadu" in web before becoming a history?
If you don't have an answer, rlease read on about the virtual country being build by tamil fanatics.
Abstract: The role of the Internet in the construction of online national identity is a growing topic for research. The Internet offers a new context for negotiations of identity and community. In particular it offers minorities and diasporic communities a new space for communication and self-representation, enabling them to challenge physical and cultural boundaries and restrictions. This paper will look at how the Tamil separatist movement of Sri Lanka, spearheaded by the violent militancy of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE),has used the Internet and its international network of support, including dispersed members of its militant network and the globally dispersed Tamil Diaspora, to create a virtual Tamil nation online. The paper will describe in exhaustive detail the online network of the Tamil Movement, and the virtual nation of Eelam that expatriate Tamils have constructed. The paper will then examine how the Tamil militants and their diasporic supporters have used the new media and communication technologies to build a Tamil nation and a Tamil national identity on the World Wide Web. In doing so the paper hopes to highlight the role of New Media Technologies in the negotiation of ethnic and cultural self-representation and outline new avenues for communication research that draw on diverse academic spheres from terrorism research and Diaspora studies to research into issues of nationalism and identity.
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at 10:44 on March 26th, 2009
"Are you one of those persons who belive that the official language of Sri Lanka is "Srilankan"?"
Official language of Sri Lanka was English up untill 1956, which only a very very small minority of Sri Lankans spoke (tamil, sinhala, muslim alike).
Sinhala Only Act was legislated on June 5, 1956. However, it was implemented on January 1, 1961. In the interim, the usage of Tamil language was permitted in the North and the East. This was legislated on January 1, 1958. Finally, in 1987 by Article 18, the Tamil language was made a national language.
at 17:10 on March 26th, 2009
Hiranya, the question was @ people who are having misconcept about the situation because of the relentless propaganda over internet. People tend to believe propagand of this mostrous magnitude because...
Source: en.wikipedia.org
And the words of the man who is known as the father of all propagandists, Joseph Goebbels
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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