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v. t. e. The Kilvenmani massacre (or Keezhvenmani massacre) was an incident in Kizhavenmani village, Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu state in India on 25 December 1968 [1] in which a group of around 44 people, the families of striking Dalit village labourers, were murdered by a gang, allegedly led by their landlords. [2]
A United Nations report found that as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final months of the civil war, mostly as a result of indiscriminate shelling by the Sri Lankan military. There are widespread allegations that both sides committed atrocities and human rights violations, including war crimes.
Thoothukudi massacre [1] (also known as the Thoothukudi police firing, the Anti Sterlite protest firing [5] and so on) denotes events that took place on 22 and 23 May 2018 in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India. The violence took place during an ongoing protest against proposed expansion of a copper smelter plant run by Sterlite Corporation in ...
Countries such as Canada and the state of Tamil Nadu in India have been vocal in acknowledging the genocide of the Tamil people, advocating for international investigations into war crimes and human rights violations. In 2022, the Parliament of Canada unanimously adopted a motion to make May 18 as the Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day.
Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu Date 11 August 1937 – present (86 years, 9 months) Location Present-day Tamil Nadu, India Caused by Various attempts by the Government of India (1947–present) and the Government of Madras (during 1937–65) to 'impose' Hindi language in the State Goals To prevent the perceived imposition of Hindi in the State Methods Non-violent - Conferences, fasts ...
The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict [28] between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals (a group of communists supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology) and the Indian government. The influence zone of the Naxalites is called the red corridor, which has been steadily declining in terms of geographical ...
On 27 March 2013, Tamil Nadu State Assembly has passed resolution which called on the Indian Government to stop considering Sri Lanka as a 'friendly country' and impose economic sanctions, as well as calling for an international inquiry in "genocide and war crimes" against Sri Lankan Tamils.
Tamil Nadu, Madurai district: In the village of Melavalavu, in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district, following the election of a Dalit to the village council presidency, members of caste Hindus group murdered of six Dalits in June 1996. Melur panchayat, which was a general constituency, was declared a reserved constituency in 1996.