Sentences with phrase «lankan tamil»
On board were 76 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum - seekers, none of... [more]
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It was also challenged by two men accused of terrorism by the United States for trying to buy missiles or weapons technology for the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers.
In June 2014, more than 150 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum - seekers were captured on a boat near Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.
Jacques Audiard returns with a hard - hitting immigration drama about a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior.
Today, the country has a population of about 12 million made up of about 75 % Sinhalese, 11 % Sri Lankan Tamils, 4 % Indian Tamils (mostly brought over by the British during the 19th century) and 9 % Moors (descended from Arab traders).
Not exact matches
The Sri Lankan military - and most analysts - are convinced the Tamil Tigers are now on their last legs, and are desperate to push ahead with their campaign.
The Tamils are protesting against the treatment of civilians trapped in fighting between the Sri Lankan government's military and the separatist Tamil Tigers, who are fighting their last stand as a 20 - year conflict draws to a close.
Over 70,000 people have been killed in the Sri Lankan conflict, which began when the Tamil Tigers commenced their campaign for an independent state in 1983.
Consular Birth certificates for Lankan refugee children born in Tamil Nadu are being issued this month, the Hindu reported.
«French auteur Jacques Audiard's Dheepan, an intimately observed, mostly Tamil - language drama about a makeshift family of Sri Lankan refugees in Paris, was the unexpected winner of the Palme d'Or at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night.»
Led by the titular protagonist — a former insurgent seeking to wash the blood of the Sri Lankan civil war from his hands — three Tamils gain asylum in France by passing themselves off as a family.
There's certainly no disputing that one of the breakout stars of Cannes this year is Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a former child soldier with the Sri Lankan militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who fled the country in the late 1980s and eventually made his way to France, where he became an acclaimed playwright, essayist and novelist.
Jacques Audiard)- North American Premiere Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, this powerful drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) follows a former Tamil Tiger soldier as he flees from the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war to begin a new life in a Parisian suburb.
«The Sri Lankan army who like to repress and murder Tamil people.