Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam
| Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam TGTE |
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|---|---|
 Claimed areas in Sri Lanka |
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| English name | Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam |
| Tamil name | நாடு கடந்த தமிழீழ அரசு |
| Seat of the organs | Rue de la Servette 1, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Chair | Visvanathan Rudrakumaran |
| Official and working languages | |
| founding |
05/17/2010 |
| tgte.org | |
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) is an internationally unrecognized transnational government which is supposed to represent the Tamil diaspora of Sri Lanka (or from the Tamil area; Tamil Eelam ). It has no seat in a specific country. The so-called parliament was elected at the beginning of May 2010 and has 135 parliamentarians. The idea was conceived after the LTTE's military defeat in 2009. The chairman of the Advisory Committee (TGTE) was Visvanthan Rudrakumaran (lawyer from the LTTE political wing).
aims
According to its own statements, the aim of the so-called parliament is to regain the right of the Tamils in Sri Lanka to self-determination through dialogues and negotiations . It also strives for an agreement of all Tamil speakers.
Advisory Committee
The advisory committee is made up of experts from all over the world, the majority of whom are Tamils.
- Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, (University of London, UK)
- Francis Boyle , (Harvard University, USA), Professor of International Law, USA
- P. Ramasamy, (Malaysia)
- AJC Chandrakanthan, (Canada)
- Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, (University of Sydney, Australia), Professor of Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
- Murugar Gunasingham,
- Sivanendran Seevanayagam
- AL 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
Distribution of seats by country
The so-called parliament is composed of elected representatives and delegates. Delegates are intended for countries where there are few Tamils in a large area. In all western countries the parliamentarians are elected by the people.
| country | elected representatives | Delegates |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 25th | |
| Great Britain | 20th | |
| France | 10 | |
| Switzerland | 10 | |
| Germany | 10 | |
| United States | 10 | |
| Australia | 10 | |
| Norway | 3 | |
| Denmark | 3 | |
| Italy | 3 | |
| South Africa | 3 | 2 |
| Holland, Belgium Luxembourg | 3 | |
| New Zealand | 2 | |
| Sweden | 1 | |
| Finland | 1 | |
| Ireland | 1 | |
| Singapore | 2 | |
| Malaysia | 3 | |
| Middle east | 2 | |
| Mauritius | 1 | |
| Rest of asia | 1 | |
| Rest of Europe | 1 | |
| Oceania | 1 | |
| Caribbean and South America | 1 | |
| Rest of africa | 1 | |
| India | 5 | |
| Total | 115 | 20th |
TGTE Democrats
Since March 4, 2011, members of parliament, mostly from the younger generation, have founded a democracy movement. In their report they demand more democracy for the relatively young transnational government. They criticize many grievances since the establishment of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.
Web links
- Official website
- TGTE young politicians found "TGTE Democrats" for more democracy (in Tamil) (PDF; 12.9 MB)
- Vidya Jeyasankar speaks about the establishment of the 'TGTE Democrats'
- Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam – USA, website of the US branch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the page of the US branch
- ↑ TGTE report (PDF; 73 kB). TamilNet. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ↑ http://law.nus.edu.sg/faculty/staff/staffcv/sornarajahcv2009.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ TGTE report (PDF; 73 kB). Distribution of seats on page 8. TamilNet
- ↑ http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=33634
