Maveerar Naal 2009 - www.tamilnation.org Video

"மாவீரர் சுமந்த கனவுகளில் ஒரு தேசம் தெரிகின்றது..."... 27 November 2009 marks the first Maaveerar Naal without the physical presence of Velupillai Pirabakaran - a leader who will live in the hearts and minds of generations of Tamils yet unborn as the undying symbol of Tamil resistance to alien rule. 27 November 2009 also serves to mark the broadening and deepening of the struggle of the Tamil people for freedom - a broadening and deepening reflected in the self immolation in February and March 2009 of Muthukumar, Ravichandran, Thamil Venthan, and Sivaprakasam not from Tamil Eelam but from Tamil Nadu. It is a a broadening and deepening to which Seeman in Tamil Nadu recently gave poignant expression -

"உலகம் எங்கும் வாழ்ந்தாலும், நாம் தமிழர்... நீயும் தமிழன், நானும் தமிழன்... தமிழனுக்கென்று ஒரு நாடு வேண்டும்.. " - சீமான் வழங்கியநேர்காணல் - 5 November 2009

The Chola Tiger symbol which Velupillai Pirabakaran selected and the name Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which he gave to the movement that he founded was rooted in the ancient heritage of the Tamil people - roots which reach out and touch and move the hearts of millions of Tamils living in many lands and across distant seas - a nation without a state... And it is this Tamil nation of more than 80 million Tamil people which bows its head on this Maveerar Naal in the year 2009 - bows its head in memory of those Tamils who gave their lives so that their brothers and sisters, wherever they may live - yes, wherever they may live - may live with dignity and in freedom. In Tamil we say 'Thanmaanam' " full text at http://www.tamilnation.org/saty/091127maveerar_naal.htm