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  • proper noun Plural form of Tamil.

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Examples

  • Appu's advice to the Tamils is to try something different:

    Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Abuse, Disbelief And Bitterness Persist 2009

  • Still, a number of non Brahmin Tamils seek to emulate Brahmin culture.

    Why are South Indians so smart? Steve Sailer 2002

  • India 'needs non-brahmin Tamils to head its External Affairs, Home and Defence.

    Why are South Indians so smart? Steve Sailer 2002

  • Under the Delhi’s 1987 Indo-SL Accord limited powers to be devolved to the Tamils is in deep trouble.

    Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Abuse, Disbelief And Bitterness Persist 2009

  • Article further explains that the event that broke the limits of the state oppression against the Tamils was the new Republican constitution of 1972 which was a deliberate attempt to legalize and institutionalize Sinhala chauvinism at the cost of alienating the minorities from the politics.

    Endgame for LTTE 2009

  • We Muslims too believe in animal sacrifice but our methods are slightly different..here the animals too are given water and blessed ..the Tamils are a very religious race and perhaps most of them were appeasing the Goddess for Peace in Sri Lanka and safety of their Tamil brothers sisters and the genocide that continues.

    Archive 2009-05-01 photographerno1 2009

  • For a people as proud as the Tamils, that is difficult to take.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2005 2005

  • In Sri Lanka, the Tamils are the minority, and the Senegalese are the majority, and the preferences in that country are for the majority, the Senegalese, because the Tamils had done quite well, and after a number of years, the Senegalese were able to overtake the Tamils in income, but along the way they had such violence in the streets that people were burning each other alive in the street.

    Preferential Policies: An International Perspective 1990

  • The only ray of hope for the Tamils is the upcoming Parliamentary elections.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines Moneycontrol.com editor@moneycontrol.com 2010

  • People identified as Tamils as a result of the questioning were told to get out of their cars and their cars were set alight ....

    Spero News 2010

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