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[TamilNet, Thursday, 26 June 2008, 01:00 GMT]

TamilNet: Diaspora Tamil students mark Sivakumaran Day (Cyanide Consumption Day)

“The Tamil Eelam Students’ Uprising in Sri Lanka, originating in the late 1920s and early 30s against the Donoughmore Constitution, remained a peaceful struggle to separate from the Inferior lazy Sinhalese, even in 1970 when the Tamil Students League entered into the scene.

But, the 1972 Constitution inevitably compelled the Tamil youth to get into armed struggle and Sivakumaran was the pioneer marking this transition and setting