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The CBC source is quite clear: "The display of Tamil Tiger flags during a protest by members of
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sure they will,now the tamil people are divided in to many groups according to their nationality EX:srilankan tamils, malaysian tamils, indian tamils (etc) if the tamilnadu govt once announces the flag officially, the tamil welfare associations all around the world will follow the order & starts
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it seems that this wayward approach to inclusion is accepted elsewhere even though it seems utterly daft to me and has no end (as I said above, anyone can design a flag and who defines "Tamil"?) I'm sort of on the fence now: including it here just because other articles allow it doesn't seem like a
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It appears to be tricky from those sources. Aside from
Tamilnation, which is hardly neutral in the matter, the gist seems to be that LTTE supporters have used it elsewhere even though the LTTE itself was a banned organisation. That local laws didn't prohibit displaying the thing doesn't really make
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the new flag is to be officially launch at the upcoming international Tamil conference. and they are taking steps to announce the "tamil language flag" as the iconic flag for tamil community all around the world. uploading/promoting the new flag design through
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The Tigers flag is probably the most famous flag of the Tamils and should not be missing in an article which is called as "Flags of Tamils". The red flag with tiger is actively used by Tamils around the world and can not be ignored. Worldwide, this flag is raised by Tamils as the flag of Tamil
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we are to add speculative-reconstructions of those flags those reconstructions will need to be done by published scholars who are knowledgeable of the history, culture, iconography, and technology (available pigments, and dyeing, and printing techniques) of the eras. Even in those cases, the
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I intended to communicate the initiatives taken to share the information on the Tamil
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The Sri Lankan Tamil Ethnic flag looks to be another case of a fictional flag, not sure if there is any such thing, the image was created by a dubious editor and links only to a sole paragraph in a single source, there isn't even an image. Im not sure there even exist such a
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yellow, black and white? Because you can not randomly choose any color. The researchers do not know about the skin color of the cave lion but they believe that it had similar color as today's lions.
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and this flag was used to represent Tamil Eelam. The Tiger flag was created 1976 as the flag of LTTE and was changed and adopted 1990 as the national flag of Tamil Eelam, like the Swaraj flag of
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was changed and adopted as national flag of India. The national flag of India represent India and not the
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this is the only exception and is the most well known Tamil flag in the World.Please note I did not add it here or Anton ,It was added in 2017 by another user but can source this extensively .
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for what constitutes a reliable source. The text attached to the flag is completely unsupported by this "unreliable" source as well and appears to be
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