உரிமையுள்ள மண்ணில் நாங்கள் அடிமையாக சாவதா?Ī tribute song to the countless revolutionary poets and writers of the Eelam struggle, both fighters and civilians. Urimaiyulla mannil naangal adimaiyaaka saavatha? Ulakam engum emathu makkal agathiyaaka povatha? Or should we die as slaves in our rightful land? Should our people seek refuge across the world?
சென்ற கடல் புலிகள் எண்கள் நெஞ்சை விட்டு போகலையேĪthu Yaar Alukaiyo/Chinna Chinna Veedu (listen)Ī poignant call and response style song, where SPB roleplays the LTTE leader describing the idyllic childhoods of a liberated Tamil Eelam.Įelam is our homeland, reclaiming it our goal.Įelam enkal thaayakam, meetpathu enkal latchiyam. Senra kadal pulikal enkal nenchai vittu pokalaiye Ventha kadal aaralaiye, vethanaikal theeralaiye Peralaiyin meethinile therizhuthu ponavareĪalkadalin meethinile theeyenave aanavare The departed Sea Tigers have not left our hearts You who drove your chariots over the waves The lyrics to the song were also penned by Puthuvai Ratnathurai. Balasubrahmanyam sang the songs Allithinru (listen) , written by Joe Puradchi, and Vaanathileri ( listen) whose lyrics were written by Eelam poet Puthuvai Ratnathurai.Ī song recorded for the Eelam film 'Ellaalan'. We look back at a selection of SPB's Eelam liberation songs.īalasubrahmanyam lent his voice to two tracks on an album marking 'Operation Ellaalan', the raid on Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura Air Force base carried out successfully by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Encompassing a variety of styles and speeds, Balasubrahmanyam frequently voiced the lyrics of Eelam revolutionary poets Puthuvai Ratnathurai, who was forcibly disappeared in May 2009, Kasi Ananthan and Joe Puradchi. Photograph: Oviar PugazhenthiĪmong the late, great S P Balasubrahmanyam's body of work, which spans over five decades and over 40,000 songs, were several enthusiastic contributions to the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle. TRC member Renuga Inpakumar said that the Eelam Tamil community is continuing to fight for justice.S P Balasubrahmanyam jots down lyrics while practising for Ulaga Manitham Thalaikal - 21st June 2007. Palestinian activist Jennine Khalik addressed the parallels between the Palestinian and Tamil struggles and academic Helen Jarvis spoke of her work as part of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, which is investigating the murder of journalists in Sri Lanka. She called for solidarity to be built up, citing a successful campaign in Scotland to end the training of Sri Lanka’s Special Task Force by Scottish police. TRC member Niro Kandasamy said that the United Nations had failed Tamils. He called on the international community to: refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court, or a special tribunal, to be tried for the crime of genocide to recognise the north and east of Sri Lanka as the Tamil homeland and to recognise the right of the Tamil nation to self-determination. Kandeepan mentioned recent protests in which participants declared February 4 a “black day”.
Their freedom of speech is restricted.ĭespite the repression, Tamils continue to protest.
They are denied the right to memorialise their dead. He said Tamils live under “one of the heaviest military occupations in the world”. He also spoke about the “structural genocide”, which has been the policy of the Sri Lankan state since 1948, and continues today. Kandeepan, a member of the Tamil National People’s Front. He spoke about the massacre of Tamils in 2009 which, he said, was comparable to massacres in Rwanda and Srebrenica. She was told about prisoners being killed and children taken from their parents, and about Tamil refugees being tortured after they were forced to return to Sri Lanka. After being detained in Melbourne and on Christmas Island, the family now lives in Perth under threat of deportation.įormer NSW Green Senator Lee Rhiannon recalled how, during her visit to Sri Lanka in 2013, she observed military bases with Buddhist stupas at their entrances, while displaced people were living in shanty towns. On that date in 1948, she said, power was handed from one oppressor to another.Īlong with her husband Nades and two daughters, Priya was seized by police in their home in Biloela in March 2018. She said that Tamils do not regard February 4, the anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from Britain, as “independence day”. In a video message, Tamil refugee Priya spoke about the racist repression of Tamil culture, language and religion and the occupation of their land. Sri Lanka: Tamil resistance continues despite repression
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