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Tasha Manoranjan Started a Women-Led Battle for Tamil Justice

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Tasha Manoranjan is the founder and executive director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), a human rights organization working for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka. She spent over a year documenting human rights violations committed against Tamils in north-eastern Sri Lanka, and remains committed to pursuing accountability and self-determination for Tamils on the island. Manoranjan received her B.A., magna cum laude, in Justice and Peace Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She earned her law degree at Yale Law School, where she served as the Features Editor and Book Reviewer for the Yale Journal of International Law, Chair of the South Asian Law Students Association, and Community Enrichment Chair of the Women of Color Collective. While at Yale, Manoranjan wrote a paper entitled “Beaten but not Broken: Tamil Women in Sri Lanka”, which was subsequently published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Manoranjan is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at the Ontario Human Rights Commission, but the views expressed here are her own.

PEARL’s mission is to “advocate for justice and self-determination for the Tamil people in the North-East of Sri Lanka.” What is it about the Tamil people’s history that makes self-determination so important for them?

The Tamil people in the North-East of Sri Lanka have experienced the brunt of Sri Lanka’s decades of ethnic conflict. Sri Lanka began discriminating against the Tamil people immediately after gaining independence in 1948, starting with disenfranchising Tamils and then systematically stripping away civil and political rights. Tamils initially protested these policies of oppression and exclusion with non-violent methods, and after those protests were repeatedly met with state violence, Tamils began an armed resistance against the Sri Lankan government. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) soon rose to the forefront as leaders of the Tamil resistance.

https://saltyworld.net/tasha-manoranjan-started-a-women-led-battle-for-tamil-justice/

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