Tamil for the past thousands of years. This Tamil identity and lands for the past 2500 years had been safeguarded from Sinhlalisation and encroachment by the Cholas Pandyans then the the powerful Tamil Kings of Jaffna and the powerful Tamil chieftans called the Vannimars ruling teh Vanni and the East of Sri lanka. Remeber the last independent Tamil kingdoms or chiefdoms to fall were not in India but in Sri Lanka when the Vanni (cuurent LTTE stronghold ) fellto the British in 1820. This is the same Vanni that gave refuge to many Eelam Tamils when they hid in the jungles of Vanni to escape the forced converion to Catholism by the Portuguese in the 1500s . thi sis the reason still around 80 % remained HIndu. BUt this unique Tamil identity and ancient Hindu culture is great peril of being destroyed . 1) by this Sinhlas genocide and approriating Tamil landa by force since independence. 2) Poor helpless tamil refugees scattered everywhere aroudn the world in a very vulnerable position being ripe ofr conversion by Christian churches as they have no where else to turnt to. What the Portuguese could not do is now being done by the Sinhlaas within 60 years of independence. they had eyed these ancient Tamil lands for teh past 200 years but have never been able to lay their hands on them. These Tamils had been a pain on they dream of a pure Sinhala Buddhist land. The British gave the opportuniuty to them. Remeber the Eelam Tamils are fighting for Tamil not for Malayalam.
