The problem of marginalising Tamils and grabbing thoer lands started from indepnedence. To the Sinhalas the British handing the Tamils over to them on a platter without adequate protection was like willing a lottery. They had eyed these ancient Tamil lands in the North East and the North West Puttalam and Chilaw. They were unable to do anything about these for the past 2500 years. due to the Tamil king of Jaffna The Tamil Chieftans and the Cholas and the Pandyans. They may have conquered these for a small period of time but they always reverted back to the Tamils. Immediatley after independence they used their majority power to immediately Sinhalise the Tamil population in Chilaw and Puttalam . The Sinhala Catholic chruch of the south also played a very crucial hand in this. That is why even now their is deep division amongst the Tamil Catholic churches and the Sinhala Catholic Churches. They are now on th everge of taking over the Tamil East thanks largely to the USa Karuna the west and India. Pakistan and Israel. If th eLTTE looses the Vanni only Godcan save the Eelam Tamils. The west especially the USA has played a very hypocritical and dirty game for its own selfish interest. They had helped the genocide and ethnic cleansing of an ancient people for their own strategiv interestes. BUt then the USa was formed on teh Genocide of the American Indians and the Slavery of the Negro Population
