Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

So six months later, or whatever, four months, they used to try and get us down from Chennai.

So a couple of nights we'd get transported through the dark and we'd turn up through the day and then we'd arrive at puzzle central prison to the remand prison in chennai and then in the morning we'll realize where we are so that was hell this is a bigger hell we're in an actual prison with over international criminals tamil tigers iranian meth dealers bloody nigeria nigerians hearing about us, coming to us, can you get us weapons? We're like, what on earth are you on about? What are you saying in the newspaper? Illegal weapons.

You're selling weapons to fishermen.

And what? And then one of those Sri Lankans who can speak Tamil, and he can speak really good English, but He translated the local paper and said, yeah, gun running, selling weapons to...

I was getting verbal abuse, sticks and stones thrown at me by the local Indians because we're India's public enemy.

We're getting told, the Indians are getting told we are coming to do a Mumbai-style attack on a nuclear power plant.

We are selling weapons to the Tamil Tigers.

We are enemy

How the Saudis, with their untold billions of petrodollars, how they haven't got together some sort of task force.

and, you know, changed the government, changed the regime in Yemen that's more friendly to them and stamped out the Houthis, you know, the way the Sri Lankan government did to the Tamil Tigers, something like that.

Well, apparently, according to Firas, and he does know his stuff, he absolutely does know his stuff, it's just not as easy as that.

The ground in Yemen is very, very difficult.

And that's the other notions they put forward, or this definition of it.

religion the archbishops of those churches the catholic church anglican church baptist church united church put out a statement condemning the strike interference from religion was significant and fred nile from the national civic council who was an mp in new south wales in that time wrote a full article about me accused me of being a member of the tamil tigers i don't even come from sri lanka And he declared that the Tamil Tigers were running the nurses' union.

Sort of a bit of Hansonism and Trumpism comes through, you know, when you listen to the crap that comes across.

But anyway, you put up with that time, I tell you.

The people in the IRA would be shocked to hear that.

The Hindus and the Tamil Tigers, the Jewish settlers on the West Bank, the Christian domestic terrorists, according to the FBI, who attacked the capital on January 6th.

The idea that only Muslims are terrorists is an absurd statement as well.

And the worst of all is it, back in, uh, I think it was in June, the congressman tweeted, "I stand with Dasha." Uh, Dasha Kilpatrick is a woman in Texas who went into a Texas grocery store, stopped two Muslim American women doing their shopping, and sh- started shouting at them, telling them to get out of the country.

well in a way it was them and the

Tamil Tigers had the same kind of range of influence theatre of operations

London and the south east of England Sierra Leone but they were like kind of just a boy band and I just thought it was very interesting I just think it's quite funny for like four kind of teenage boys to be like and we're going to be a boy band and not do like wanting to be blue is a funny thing to want to be

and why call it blue?

But also expressing support for listed terrorist entities.

I mean, the Tamil Tigers were listed as a terrorist entity for years.

And I will note that one of the people that they're lobbying is Gary Anna Sangri, who I knew from the Tamil student movement back in the day.

Anyway, Alex Koch notes that currently the only way to have citizenship revoked is if someone was found to have engaged in fraud or false representation to get citizenship.

And he said to me, looked at me and he said, "I'm a failure." And that caught my attention.

That have you heard sort of senior politicians, presidents saying they're a failure? Because I was a monk and was alone, he said, "I'm a failure." He joined politics to try and find a solution, a non-violent solution to the trouble with the Tamil Tigers.

This is what he told me.

He said he failed.