8. Dravida Peravai urged Amnesty International to intervene and secure the release of 9 Eelam Tamils illegally detained at Visakapatinam(29.3.97)

9. Dravida Peravai took up the above said detention issue with National Human Rights Commission (29.05.97)

10. In the EELAM CONFERENCE banned by Centre at Delhi on 14.12.97 and convened by GEORGE FERNANDES M.P, N. Nandhivarman spoke in English and presented a paper.

11. Dravida Peravai participatd in the Eelam Tamil Resurgence Conference convened by Mr. Pazha.Nedumaran at Madurai(7.3.99)

CULTURAL STRUGGLES:

1.Dravida Peravai Student Wing conference presided by P. Manimaran Student Wing Secretary urged the Union Government to declare THIRUKURAL AS NATIONAL BOOK OF INDIA(31.3.1996)

2.Dravida Peravai campaigned to protect ARIKKAMEDU THE archaeological site near Pondicherry, the only site in peninsular India proven archaeologically datewise(3.8.96 Dinamalar, THE HINDU etc)

3. Dravida Peravai conducted a seminar on the USE OF COMPUTERS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF TAMIL OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ACT AND TAMIL DEVELOPMENT(18.8.99)Dinamani

ENVIRONMENT STRUGGLES: 1. The coastal village of Narambai near Pondicherry was to be totally uprooted to set up an offshore LNG Terminal and 350 fisherfolk who for centuries living there fought against this. Dravida Peravai led the legal as well as people's struggle and stalled the project once for all.

2.The ground water depletion in the coastal belts was causing great alarm. A state owned 100 year old distillery was letting its effluents into the sea upsetting the marine food chain. Dravida Peravai went to Supreme Court along with few environmentalists and forced the relocation of Distillery.

3. To protect the lives of 5000 salt pan workers in whose worksite National Thermal power corporation plans to set up a mega project at Cheyyur, Dravida Peravai led the struggle(Junior Vikatan, Tamil bi-weekly 30.07.99)

POLITICAL STRUGGLES: The Political mafia of Pondicherry went on grabbing houses of French Nationals and Indian citizens with the help of fake documents and Dravida Peravai took the lead in writing to the French President Jacques Chirac(THE ASIAN AGE 10.10.98). 15 parties sat on a hunger strike demanding probe by Central Bureau of Investigation on December 1 1998. 12 parties went to Delhi and met Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 17.12.98 and presented a 120 page memorandum. 7 parties staged agitation in front of Central Bureau of Investigation Office at Chennai on 3.5.99. CBI came to Pondicherry and began the probe on 8.5.99. Inspite of threats to life Dravida Peravai coordinated these all party efforts and led the struggle. THE WEEK(6 DECEMBER 1998), OUTLOOK(14.6.99)JUNIOR VIKATAN(11.11.98) etc, and numerous weeklies and dailies have carried plenty of writeups on Dravida Peravai's role in taming the mafia. Mr. Ira. Azhagiri, General Secretary of Gandhi Kamaraj National Congress was the Joint Co-ordinator in these struggles.

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