Tamil Nadu

On a Saturday morning I decided to do a family tree project for my English class. On one of the websites I went to an ad popped up on the screen telling me I can learn more about my family history through my DNA and it was for free. I decided to try it because I was curious about my family history, so I had applied for it. Three days later I had gotten a DNA testing kit. I had put the tooth cotton swab in my mouth and moved it around to get my saliva on it. After that I had sent my DNA back and…

sympathized with Saraswathi as she strived for this peace and redemption. Being influenced by mass propaganda while also falling into a deep depression after her dream of becoming a school teacher was no longer possible, Saraswathi’s choice to join the Tamil Tigers was not a surprise. Her own mother said, “You must go to the training camp. Learn to fight. Become a hero” (Munaweera, p.159). At first this terrified her, yet as the training went on and she was finally able to reclaim her strength…

mainly in the year 2007 when the Srilankan government was taking high measures to eradicate the terrorism in the country. The Srilankan Civil War was an ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the Island. The Tamils in North and East of the Island fought to create an independent Tamil state. It was one of the longest running civil war for nearly three decades which eventually ended in May 2009 after a yearlong fierce battle. What triggered my political interest during the…

power of the Sinhalese majority, the Tamils were driven from their homeland by systematic terror. According to Lewellen, “About 700,000 refugees, one third of the entire prewar Tamil population, have resettled on every continent…” (TL 167). One of the places Tamil have relocated is Norway. Tamils in Norway face significant social and economic differences between themselves and the established Norwegian community. This vast socioeconomic gap has led the Tamil to perceive assimilation as…

INTRODUCTION Every Terrorist group has a history such as where they came from and why did they appear in a specific country. Boko Haram first begins in 2002 in Maidu-Guri, the capital of Borno State in the country of Nigeria located in a west part of Africa. The Islamic terror group over the past years has being operating around the Nigeria and Niger boarder; also between Nigerian and Cameroon boarder. Nigerian has a population of about 170 million people and it is a multi-ethnic country with…

States would have likely got involved. This is a good example of a conflict with limited involvement by the United States. For a more current and rising threat this essay will look at ISIS since it has now become the biggest terrorist threat that faces the United States and has the most potential to grow. They have control over a large territory that stretches across the border of Syria and Iraq and has over 30,000 fighters with military capabilities (Cronin, 2015). It has gained enough power…

Throughout the 21st century Somali terrorists have terrorized the land and sea of the horn of Africa. Somalia is a country that has been plagued with civil war since 1986. In Somalia right now there are two major Islamic terrorist groups. Theses groups are known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. From what these terrorist groups have done, Somalia is ;left with close to nothing to build it back up. Somalia cannot overcome this issue of terrorism because of Al-Shabaab, terrorists taking over the nation,…

political action. Terrorist groups using the networked structure, are organized in cells so that the loss of a cell would not compromise the identity, location or actions of other cells or the organization. Hezbollah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Tamil Tigers are politically motivated and their attacks are focused on their governments. Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, ISIS and Lashkar E Taiba are all motivated by religion and their targets are…

of a Thousand Mirrors, the in grouping and out grouping of the Sinhalese and Tamils are what caused the gigantic divide between those of the same country. It caused the “...Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.” (Munaweera 36) and it caused the “...two heads of state to engage in battle.” (Munaweera 37). The Tamil were tired of the Sinhalese thinking that they were better and the Sinhalese were upset because the Tamils were trying to take control of so the called, Sinhala territory, so, due to…

abused at home. In fact, ideology was the second to last of their reasons. In Sri Lanka, Dennis McGilvray commented that The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), call themselves liberation fighters and not terrorist. He asserted that in the case of the LTTE the need for join this group had more to do with their linguistic and religious divide, the Tamil minority did not feel…