Canada
On September 2024, OTA, OTACT, and OTACT Taekwondo jointly collected over 1000 lbs of non-perishable food items and handed them over to the Ottawa Foodbank as part of the Thiyaki Thileepan Memorial Food Drive effort by the Tamil Civic Action initiative. Ottawa Tamil Association (OTA) in a message posted on their website, thanked those who contributed to this great effort.
In Tamil Eelam, on Sep 15, 1987, Thiyagi Thileepan who was on hunger strike for 12 days highlighting the implementation of the Indo-Sri Lanka accord requested setting up an interim council and 5 requests: release of political prisoners, stopping colonization, and withdrawal of Sri Lankan army and police from schools and villages. Tamils were hoping that India would listen and agree. However, he died on September 26, 1987.
India
Oman
Italy
