The everyday discrimination against black people in the United States bears frightening similarities to the suppression of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
The Black Lives Matter movement is seeking to put an end to the inequities faced by blacks in the United States. In Sri Lanka, the failure to redress unfair policies leveled against the Tamil people led to civil war.morning hours of July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old-black man, died after being shot several times at close range while he was held down by police officers outside a convenience store in Louisiana.
Throughout the United States, similar shootings and incidents of police brutality have given rise to Black Lives Matter , a grassroots movement working to end anti-black racism. In the hours and days following the Sterling and Castile shootings, thousands of people took to the streets to protest. The year before, I had seen violence erupt in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, another young black man who died after being held in police custody.
That’s when I realized he was comparing anti-black sentiment in the United States to the systematic subjugation of Sri Lankan Tamils, which led to the brutal, three-decades-long. It’s not just the physical violence that made him draw the comparison. My father often talks about the “living death” surrounding the Sri Lankan war: a slow and systematic campaign to destroy people through political erasure and social oppression. That, sadly, is what he sees now in the United States.
“We tried to follow the path of nonviolence to fight racism and discrimination,” says my father, recalling nonviolent Tamil protests. These protests did not result in any policy changes; instead, they were met with state-sponsored and civilian violence. In the early 1970s, the protests turned into calls for a separate independent Tamil state. Young Tamils who had grown up during an era of anti-Tamil violence began forming militant organizations, preferring an armed path of resistance.
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