Tamil people (also called Tamils) (Tamil: தமிழர், tamiḻar[?]), are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, a state in India, and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. They speak Tamil (தமிழ்), with a recorded history going back two millennia.[8] Emigrant communities are found across the world. The Tamils are mostly Hindus with sizable Christian and Muslim populations.
[Sun, 17 May 2009, 18:37 GMT]While the so-called international community is "exposed of its shameful conning," thousands of Tamil civilians and combatants are laying down their lives to "uphold Tamil dignity, and human dignity," says a Tamil academic in Colombo. Those who blame the LTTE for bringing in the disaster know well that Colombo always had the option to negotiate or to come out with a political solution convincing Tamils not to continue the conflict. But Colombo's aim is not power sharing but genocide and subjugation of Tamils by forcing war on them. "The only way now for the IC to come out of the colossus shame is direct intervention and recognition of the justification for Tamil Eelam," the academic said.
Time is running out. On November 29th, the Honduran military and business junta that illegally seized power on June 28th and that has since violently repressed the country’s people and press will hold “elections” effectively closing all possibility for a reversal of the coup d’ etat that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009.
Hondurans for Democracy, the organizers of the protest )
The announcement in late October of an agreement between President Zelaya and the coup regime, although extremely flawed, gave to many the hope that a semblance of the democratic process would be restored in Honduras after all. However, the coup regime has reneged on its obligations under the accord by refusing to allow President Zelaya to be reinstated prior to the elections. The coup regime is attempting to launder the coup d’etat with martial law elections that the opposition cannot meaningfully contest.
President Zelaya, the National Front Against the Coup, and a broad-based popular movement in Honduras have called for a boycott of the elections. Twenty-three Latin American nations are echoing the cry of the Honduran people and have expressed that they will refuse to recognize the coup-regime elections. These nations have opted to instead recognize the widespread violations of human rights committed by the cup regime. The U.S. State Department representatives continue to deny having heard any reports of human rights abuses.
In a recent and shocking policy shift, the U.S. plans to almost unilaterally recognize these elections as legitimate. While the State Department claims the elections represent a way for Honduras to “move forward” out of the crisis, those who know the history of Latin America know that without justice and accountability, Honduras is in danger of repeating the repression and suffering of dirty wars throughout Latin America’s history.
Disturbing documentary made in the middle of the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980's. Your tax dollars at work. 75,000 people killed. The right-wing USA-backed ARENA party vs the FMLN party which fought for justice. [ more text here ]
An evocative vision of a nation and its tragic civil conflict, IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE is the record of four filmmakers who secretly entered El Salvador, marched with a guerrilla column across the troubled country, and followed it into combat against government forces in San Salvador.
The civil war is given a personal dimension as we meet the insurgents and their supporters - a guerrilla commander, a 12 year old messenger, a peasant family victimized by right wing death squads, and Charlie Clements, an American doctor working with the rebels.
