| Sri Lanka: Tamils establish their own National Registry of Persons (Eelam) or Single Indentity Card |
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 Tamils in North-East of Sri Lanka, through the Civil Administration wing of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has launched their own Tamileelam National Registry of Persons on Monday, January 01 2007, as part of establishing their own nation. The programme was inaugurated by the Commissioner of Tamil Eelam Department of Registration of Persons, S Jeyenthiran, by issuing the first national identity card to LTTE leader Velupillai Pirapaharan. The card will function similar to the Social Security Number (SSN) used in many western democracies, where the number uniquely identifies an individual, TamilNet said.
The Registration Number will be used by the Tamileelam administration as the main index in most computerized administrative records of individuals including tax records, employee records, patient records, student records, and credit records. Officials of Sri Lanka Administrative service in Jaffna said that the Sri Lanka's National ID card is mainly used to identify, access entries in security related data, and has not been fully integrated with other administrative computerized data records. 
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