Posted on July 18th, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement says that the Tamil civilian population in the north is an innocent group, who have suffered during the Eelam war IV. The Tamil people were the victims of the last phase of the war, said Jehan Perera. They lost their loved ones, lost their lands, their livelihoods. The Tamils are an aggrieved people, not aggressors. They suffered unjustly during the war, said the Eelamists. Anti-Eelamists do not agree. They do not think that the Tamil civilians in the north were ‘innocent victims’. Tamil civilians in the north knowingly supported the LTTE in their