to Catholism and later to Buddhism during the European colonial period,a very large chunk of the Tamil population in the western and Southern littoral became Sinhlalised. Later soon after independence The entire Tamilpopulation in teh Tamil NOrth West coastal Chilaw and Puttalam( the southern part of the Jaffan kingsom) were frcibly assimilated as Sinhalas by the Srilankan government withthe help of the Southern SInhala Catholic Church. Ironically these recent Tamil turned Sinhala castes are the most rabidly anti Tamil. Most members of teh extremist JVP. JHU parties the current general who wants Prabharan dead as weel asthe Bandarnaike, Jayawardene, the WIckremesinghe and the Mahinda Rajapakse clan all belong to this group.The Tamis basically lost a large part of their land, their people and their independence. The SInhalas gined theor freedom in 1947. BUt to the native Eelam Tamils this was jumping from the frying pan to the fire. Al least the Portuguese, Dutch and the British were only interested in subjugation the Tamils and the Sinhalas and oonverting them. However teh Sinhalas are not only interested in subjgating the Native Tamils but also to annihilate them as people form the face of this earth. The West Pakistanis only tried to subjugate the East Bengalis not to annihilate them. This is more like in Darfur or Rwanda kill ethnnically cleanse displace and forcibly assimilate a people so thjat there will be no trce of them after 2500 years. No nEelam Tamils after
