Stung by rights criticism, Sri Lanka summons US, UK, EU and other ambassadors
Sri Lanka's militaristic government said Friday it had hauled in the envoys of countries calling for UN human rights monitoring of the island's dirty war against the Tamil Tigers, AFP reported. The ambassadors of the United States, the European Union, France, Korea and Sweden were summoned for a dressing down by foreign ministry secretary Palitha Kohona, AFP quoted the ministry as saying. Diplomats from Canada and the Netherlands will also be summoned Friday, the ministry said, adding a complaint over remarks made at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week will be forwarded to New Zealand's Delhi-based envoy.
The foreign ministry in Colombo said it had conveyed its "serious concern" that Sri Lanka, which has categorically rejected the presence of foreign monitors, was being subjected to escalating international criticism.
Colombo also expressed its "deep displeasure" to Britain's high commissioner to Sri Lanka, Dominic Chilcott, over comments interpreted as being sympathetic to the Tamil demand for independence.
The foreign ministry "drew attention to the high commissioner's comment, 'I am not saying that the political aspiration for Eelam (separate Tamil state) is illegitimate' and expressed the government's deep concern," the statement said.
Chilcott had also warned the government, which insists it now has the upper hand in the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
It is a historical beleive that forefathers of todays Sinhalies are actually people from Bengali civilization who came and settled in Srilanka about 900 years back. If that is the case, why can't Tamils, who are settled there since 400 years, ask for a good share of this 'anybody's land' ? Can Mr. Tathagat Mukherjee enlighten us on this important issue ?
RE:Origin of original Sinhalies
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Dec 21, 2007 09:05 PM Permalink
No Prakash they do say from Bengal (is is not 900yers ago but around 2500 years ago. )but if you look at modern Sinhal dialect they use the word V and not B eg visa ( twenty )Vandura( Monkey)this is west Indic. unlike east indic eg Hind Bis( twenty) Bandhar( Monkey) so most probably thero ancestors have come from north west India eg Gujarat. SIndh. These Prakrit soeaking migrants did not bring their women folk withthem. so even according to their legend Mahavamsa( the great history) they took Tamil women from the Pandyan country as their wives. So in reality they from the inception were half Tamil. Other than this orinial lot of migratns from Noth Indai all other migrants for the next 2500 years were from the SOuth of India. Mainly from Tamil Nadu then Kerala then ANdhra and Orissa. Originally Sinhala meant only the descendants of these Aryan/Tamil Migrants speaking thier Prakrit language. Later with the advent of Buddhism. around 2300 years ago, th eentire island other than the population in the North and East got converted. The language of Buddhism was Pali/Sanskrit. therefore a new language started to evolve. This was a mixture of the Prakrit/Sanskrit/Pali amd Tamil. In fact modern Sinhala has around 35 to 40% Tamil root words. The sentence and the grammatical structure is Tamil. Therefore al lthe local Tamils in the south central north central toghether with the other tribes like the Veddhas. Yakkas, Nagas and the Aryan/Tamil Sinhalas became Buddhists and contd
RE:Origin of original Sinhalies
by prakash on Dec 21, 2007 09:18 PM Permalink
Thank you Chelvarajan alias Tathagat Mukherjee Puttar for this great knowledge. I am ready to offer you some garam garam idli dhosha.....
RE:Origin of original Sinhalies
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Dec 21, 2007 09:36 PM Permalink
am mot Tathagat Mukherjee Iam Chelvarajan and Tamil lol keep your iddlis. I find them bland I like rice and spicy curry.( with lots of cocnut milk chillies etc)
RE:RE:Origin of original Sinhalies
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Dec 21, 2007 09:18 PM Permalink
started to speak this newly evolving langguage and this was called Sinhala. This poeple started to form a cohesive unit and gradually evolved in to the Sinhala people. They later absorbed many of the Chola and Pandyan and others who invaded and setteled amongst them . In fact around 50% of the ancestors of the present day Sinhlas only migrated form southern TamilNadu and Kerala ( when Kerala was Tamil speaking too ) around 600 to 100 years ago. The now consit the Sinhala castes of Karawe,Salagama. Durawe, Hunu etsc MOst menbers of the SInhaa arstocrtic families are of almost pure south Indain Tamil descent. Basically aroudn 2500 years ago aryan migrants came form north India, They married local and Pandyan Tamil womenthier Sinhala decendants were only a saml powerful minority. around 2300 years ago Buddhism came to Sri Lanka . The Local Tamils HIndus in the south central north central Sr Lanka toghether with the Veddhasm and these Rayan /Tamil deecendants converted to Buddhism and adopted th enewly evolving language called SInhala which was mixture of Tamil/ Sansrit and Pali. Around 400 years ago durign the POrtuguese rule the Tamils living in the western and southern Littoral were forcibly converted to Chatholism and man y of them later became Buddhists. These newly converted Catholic/Buddhist Tamils chabged thier languag and became Sinhalese. After independence around 60 years ago the Tamil population in the Chilaw . Puttalam districts were forcibly Sinhalised by the
RE:RE:RE:Origin of original Sinhalies
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Dec 21, 2007 09:30 PM Permalink
Sri Lankan government ,Man y of these so calle dSinhlaas because of their recent Sinhalisatin still are able to speak a queer form of Tamil. BUt this is dying out. Whilse this happened the Population in the North and East of Sri lanka lafgely remained unaffected by these Aryan migration and Buddhist introduction. So they stil spoke thier ancient language called Elu this language ws later called Tamil ( then Elu th eElu of the south wich became Tamil) . The Elu the thanthe Buddhist ocnverts spoke became Sinha Elu th eElu othe Sinhalas) and became Sinhala. This writing oth e elu language was called Eluthu. Therefor the any one who reamained HIndu ( the local Tamils trh e Veddhas. Nagas and also the the Aryan/Tamil descendants who never became Buddhist . moved to the North and east and became the Eelam Tamils ( like the SInhalas a signficant minorty of SriLankan Tamil are decended from the original Aryan/ Tami lmixed Sinhalas the ones who did not convert ot Buddhism but got assimilated by the Tamil Hindus) These Eelam Tamils Historically like th SInhalsa assimillaed many of the Chola/Pandayan and Kalinga invaders who setteld amongst them, The British aroudn 150 to 200 years ago brought in the South Indian ( mainly Tamil but amny Malayalees ( eg MGR ancestors) and Telugus) as indentured labourers. they are very different from the Native Eelam Tamils in theirhabbit language cutomes etc and live in the south
RE:Origin of original Sinhalies
by prakash on Dec 21, 2007 08:57 PM Permalink
Come on Tathagat BABA... It is a subject releted to your loving Bengali race.....
Prabhakaran is just a politician cum terrorist who is playing with sentiments of tamilans by playing "tamil card" to become the king of tamil elam.He can compared to nehru and jinah who divided the country to fulfill their ruling ambitions.Country's or a state's boundry is decided by politicans politician ambitions not by some commoness as critera to make national boundaries.
RE:Prabhakaran fooling tamilians
by Sabka Baap on Dec 21, 2007 08:46 PM Permalink
Prabhakarn is responsible for killing of thousands of tamil people. He has been using small children Whenever there is shortage of soldiers. He like laden who is sole responsible of thousands of muslim killed in the name of jehad. prabhakarn should be killed without asking anything to that B-as-tard.
RE:RE:Prabhakaran fooling tamilians
by sriram vuppala on Dec 21, 2007 09:51 PM Permalink
The goverment of India is taking Action against Malaysia for protection of Ethinic Indians. If they have this brain at those movement when SriLanka Goverment passed Amendment ceasing all the Tamil Ethnic minority for Govt posts and Govt Funded Education in 80's, only at those moments the LTTE was formed. I don't support LTTE but you have to understand the history and once this type of movement starts its not easy to reverse. Terrorist Organisations are normally supported from External Countries for their benefit but this war is not funded by any goverment. So I request please dont call them terrorist.
RE:Prabhakaran fooling tamilians
by ramesh safety ramesh on Dec 21, 2007 10:03 PM Permalink
Prabakaran is not a womeniser like nehru.even though he has committed crime the way in which he was handled is ridiclulus. Indian Politicians play a vital politics with srilankan tamils. none of the Tamilnadu politicians want the eelam problem to get solved since they are minting money by sheding crocidile tears for srilankan tamils.
Media reported many times that Prabhakaran has been died,washed out by tsunami, injuried by air attack, and sick. It is purposeful fase propoganda by anti Tamil liberation movement.
Everyonehasbeen talking about who is the behind of Ragive assasination for single person. But in indragandhi assasination time 4000 siks killed by indians and indian police & Indian politcian. For this who will take responsibility & to whom we can give punishment. We can give panishment for ragive gandhi or indragandhi? any one answer for this?
Let India take full advantage of LTTE. Till Indian diplomatic skill became an effective weapon, we should help LTTE to grow as a full scale Army by recruiting people from Bihar and Gujrat. Then we should send then secretly to all those countries where Indian origines are disturbed by dirty locals. This could be a right tactical policy for India till it become really a super power....
RE:LTTE and India
by sriram vuppala on Dec 21, 2007 09:59 PM Permalink
Nice to see Bihari Babu from Ranbir Sena and Armangamalglaman from Tanjur doinga joint Army excercise at the SriLanka border. Now Bihari Babu will eat Sambar or our Arman.. will eat Roti. Which language will they communicate to each other. Due to Anti Hindi feeling Prabhakarn wont allow their cadres to speak in Hindi and its a deadlock for Bihari to learn Tamil.
RE:LTTE and India
by Super User on Dec 21, 2007 08:40 PM Permalink
haha...good joke!
Can you please explain how will that help in India becoming a super-power? Please understand that when people talk about super-power it is economic super-power that people refer to not goonda-giri!
RE:LTTE and India
by prakash on Dec 21, 2007 08:52 PM Permalink
Super User Puttar, no country can become a super power by mare internal growth of economy. You have to loot other country's wealth too. This new LTTE with Gujrati and Biharies will do the same for India. One need not explain why the selection of Gujraties and Biharies for such a special mission ? Thik hain Beta !
