On Resilience and Defiance of the Īlamtamil Resistance Movement in a Transnational Diaspora

In January 2010, the time-frame for achieving the ultimate aim conceptualised as external or internal self-determination, is envisaged as lying one or two generations ahead by Tamil speakers in the worldwide Diaspora. In some circles within the Movement a kind of Tamil worldly Zionism is developed not very far from Theodor Herzl's. This Diaspora, guided by a provisional transnational Government or another form of self-chosen governance, sees itself as a resilient, highly motivated, self-confident and defiant resistance movement with a non-submissive attachment to the three Ts. In the eyes of government- loyal, Lankan media, however, the Tamil Resistance Movement was and remains a terrorist organisation. The new transnational Government struggles for recognition in global interstate relations and is receiving unexpected help - from the Lankan Government. Keywords:Lankan Government; non-submissive attachment; provisional transnational Government; Tamil Resistance Movement; Tamil speakers; three Ts; worldwide Diaspora

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