Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam

 

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17.05.2010

Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam ( TGTE ) is an internationally not recognized transnational government that the Tamil Diaspora of Sri Lanka (or from the Tamil area; Tamil Eelam ) is supposed to represent. She has no residence in a particular country. The so-called parliament was elected in early May 2010 and has 135 parliamentarians. The idea was designed after the military defeat of the LTTE in 2009. The Chairman of the Advisory Committee ( TGTE ) was Visvanthan Rudrakumaran (lawyer from the political wing of the LTTE).

Objectives

The goal of the Parliament, it is by its own account through dialogues and negotiations to regain the self-determination of the Tamils ​​in Sri Lanka. Also, it aims at a unification of all Tamil- speaking.

Advisory Committee

The advisory committee is composed of experts from around the world, which are mostly Tamils.

  • Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, ( University of London, UK)
  • Francis Boyle, (Harvard University, USA ), Professor of International Law, United States
  • P. Ramasamy, (Malaysia)
  • A.J.C Chandrakanthan (Canada)
  • Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, ( University of Sydney, Australia), Professor of Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  • Murugar Gunasingham,
  • Sivanendran Seevanayagam
  • A. L. Vasanthakumar
  • Karen Parker
  • Nagalingam Jeyalingam, (USA)
  • Selva Sivarajah
  • Paul Williams
  • Peter Schalk, Lund University ( religion) / University Gothenburg ( Indology ), Professor of History of Religion, Uppsala University, Sweden

Seat Distribution by country

The so-called Parliament shall be composed of elected representatives and delegates. Delegates are bound for countries in the few Tamils ​​are to find an abundance of space. In all Western countries, parliamentarians are elected by the people.

Democrats of TGTE

Since March 4, 2011, members of Parliament, mainly from the younger generation, established a democracy movement. They call in your report, more democracy for the very young Transnational Government. They criticize about many abuses, since the founding of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.

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