Recognition of indigenous identity, structural dispossession, and the right to remedial self-determination of Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka EDITOR'S NOTE Compiled by: Wimal Navaratnam, Independent Researcher, Human Rights Activist 1 This advocacy dossier has been structured as a formal submission to the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) 1 . It addresses the fundamental legal, historical, and structural parameters for recognizing Eelam Tamils as an Indigenous Nation in the North-Eastern region of the island of Sri Lanka 1 . In light of ongoing state-sponsored demographic alteration, militarized land expropriation, and administrative Sinhalization, this document reframes the Tamil national question through the lens of international indigenous rights law 1 . By synthesizing Benedict Kingsbury’s constructivist framework with international jurisprudential standards on self...