While successive Sri Lankan governments have made efforts to neutralize the movement through the process of Sinhalisation, Tamil diaspora groups have kept LTTE narratives of nationhood, persecution and struggle alive in their host countries. Their narratives of nationhood, persecution, and struggle play a pivotal role in internationalizing a subnational resistance movement under the framework of liberal peace engagement. While successive governments have made efforts to neutralize the movement through the process of Sinhalization, 1 sections of the Tamil diaspora have kept it alive in their host countries.
Some of these diasporic groups remain committed to their demands for a separate homeland. While the secessionist movement faced military defeat in 2009, its nationalist ideologies survive by means of a network of diasporic groups in third-party countries. The armed struggle by the now-defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) formed in response to the discriminatory policies adopted by successive governments that strengthened the position of the majority and marginalized minority groups. Sri Lanka faced the ethno-separatist Tamil Eelam movement-in the pursuit of creating a separate homeland for the Tamils-from 1983 to 2009. Several South Asian countries have been affected by armed conflicts that have undermined their sovereignty and territorial integrity.