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This month, we are celebrating PEARL’s 15th anniversary: 15 years of fearless #Tamil-led advocacy, legal work, and research to advance justice and self-determination for the Tamil people in the North-East of Sri Lanka. In 2021, our fight continues. #PEARL15 #JusticeForGenocide
In 2005, @tdmanoranjan founded PEARL following humanitarian trips to Sri Lanka. In 2004, Tasha and other Tamil American volunteers hoped to raise funds to rebuild the schools in which they had been teaching English...
Later that year the #BoxingDayTsunami led to an influx of financial support from intl. donors that was then misdirected by the #GoSL to Sinhalese areas instead of affected Tamil areas. This clearly exposed the root problem of Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism.
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