RE:India needs to learn something from Sri Lanka
by Super User on Dec 21, 2007 08:33 PM Permalink
Please do not compare the situation in Kashmir with that in Sri Lanka. Infact the situation in SL is more akin to that of Isreal and Palestine where tamils like the Palestines are pushed to a tiny corner by the Sinhalese majority government. The tamils are clearly marginalised in every aspect of Srilankan society, be it politics, educations, health etc. Im not trying to justify the LTTE and its actions for they too have blood in their hands. However, it is clear that the Srilankan government is the more powerful between the two and it is the government who should take the initiative to ensure that the tamil people are given equal rights and a fair representation in SL society.
RE:India needs to learn something from Sri Lanka
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Dec 21, 2007 08:40 PM Permalink
Dear fact Speaker it looks like you really do not seem ot knowing anth facts of all. India does not have an official policy of discriminating its minorities.either by language race or religion. It doesn not bomb its citizens from the air or shell them destroy their homes temples/ chrches schools and orphanages. It does not have offical policies ataing that al head of departments armed forces president Prime mininster shoudl only be Hindus lile it isated in SrI Lanka they shoudl b eonly Sinhala Buudhists ( not Sinhal Christian too). It doen not have policies lik in Sri Lanka stating that Sinhla student have to obtain much lower marks than Tamils to gain entrance for th esame course. It doen not deny emplymoment. Indian does not indulge in Ethnic cleaning activitiesagians its minorities, the Sri Lankan government does in the Tamil East. In fact in India it is the majority HIndus who have been ethnically cleansed out of Kashmir. So the Tamil in Sri Lank ahve every rignt to ask for a seperated state all other means of obtaining thier just rights have failed. They ahave historically lived in the north and east of Sr iLanka for thousand s of years continuously and have ruled them selves and according to the UN Charter have th eright to self determine theoir future and escape from a genocidal racist majority. Mnay western governmentshave stated that the Sri Lankan Tamils have the right for self determination. they may not like th LTTE .
RE:RE:India needs to learn something from Sri Lanka
by Czar X on Dec 21, 2007 09:00 PM Permalink
Oh no! India has similar policies, but based on caste and not religion. The policies do result in a situation where some people getting much much much lower marks can walk into esteemed educational institutes, while merit suffers. What is worse, sometimes they do not reach the much much much lower cut-off and their reserved seat remains vacant. This is especially true of our beloved motherland Tamizhnadu.
RE:RE:RE:India needs to learn something from Sri Lanka
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Dec 22, 2007 05:16 PM Permalink
Yes Czar in India this reservation was mainly done ( although now misused) to upliftthe down trodden dalits tribals and backward castes who had a raw deal fromn teh upper an dmiddle castes for the past thousand years. In Sri Lanka it is not done to uplift any backward poor or opressed people. Here it is done on a purely evil racial motive just to deprive it Tamil population education. employmet etc. All Sinhalas benefir by it whether thay are rich or poor. low or high caste Buddhist or Christian come form forward or backward area. and all Tamils are also vasty affected by this wheterh they are indegenous or of Indian origin. Hindu or Christian. Brahmin or Dalit.,rich or poor. SO in Idnia these reservations were brough in with a good intention to uplift teh oppressed and backward but in Sri Lanka this was brought in with a purely evil intention to oppress and deny the Tamils proper education and employment, so that the Tamil population will permanently become illeterate, unable to fight for thoer rights and therfore become permanently subservient to the Sinhalas. They are trying to make the Tamils the new Dalits in Sri Lanka
