The Rajapakshe is trying to legitimise the attrocities committed against the Tamils right from 1983. It is believed that Tamils went to Lanka right from the turn of the 18th century and are still treated as 2nd class citizens. Only a separate state for them will solve the problem.
RE:Lanka
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Feb 19, 2008 04:21 PM Permalink
The native Eelam Tamils did not go from India for the 18th century . They have been living in The country for thousands of years and have been ruling themselves for most of teh times. these was no country called( Ceylon) SRI Lanka. This was a country created by the British for administrative convenience in the 1830s. After capturing the Sinhalese kingdom of Kandy and the Tamil chiefdom of Vanni in the 1820s. The Kandyan convention which was signed by the so called Sinhlas King and the Kandyan Sinhlas aristocrats was signed in English and Tamil with only one Sinhlas aristocrat signing it in Singhala. As the these nominally Sinhlas kings were actually the Tamil/Telugu Nayakas and only spoke Tamil and many of these so called Kandyan Sinhlas aristocrats were actually South Indian Tamil Nayakas and their home language was Tamil. They are the ancestors of Mrs Bandaranaike,J.R Jayawardene.Ranil Wickremesinghe, Chandrika Kumaratunge and Mahinda Rajapakse's wife. It is an irony the descendants of these recent South Indian Tamil speaking Nayakas are leading the antiTamil genocide against teh native Eelam Tamils of the North and East who had lived there for thousands of years, In the name of Sinhala and Buddhism. The British brought in aroudn a million Tamils as indentured labourers from the mid 19th century. These people live in the central highlands and have nothing to do with the native Eeelam Tamils of the north and east who involved in this conflict.
RE:Lanka
by yaaro on Feb 19, 2008 04:08 PM Permalink
how many times to tell. NOT ALL TAMILS IN SRILANKA ARE MIGRANTS FROM INDIA. Many(5lakh iguess) ppl who were taken by British to work in plantations were RETURNED to INDIA by RACIST SINHALA GOVT. (in 1949 or 56). Tamils lived in SL from time immemorial..Tamils went to many countries for trade etc (Ref:Sangam poetry and records of roman abd greek empires) WONT THEY NOT ATLEAST PEEP into this beautiful island??. Actually when SINHALA KING VIJAYA CAME (ref.MAHAVAMSAM) he saw some ppl already in that island?. NOW LET US DECIDE WHO R THOSE.!
IF NOT FOR PRABHA the whole tamil race wud have got wiped out from SRILANKA. Palestinians have whole muslim world support. Kosavans have US,EU support. Bangladesis had INDIAN support.(Power of bengali lobby!). WITHOUT ANY1s support TAMIL EELAM ppl are struggling on their own. LET INDIA not SPOIL their chances like in 1987-1991. (TALK to any EELAM TAMIL on ATROCITIES of INDIAN army). (Unlike BENGALI LOBBY ...the so-called TAMIL LOBBY stands against EELAM. HOPE in another 25 years tamilians with sense of TAMIL-PRIDE will replace these subservient tamils in HIGH POSITIONS and make our voices heared)
RE:Lanka
by ugendreshwar kudupudi on Feb 19, 2008 03:01 PM Permalink
Separation isn't the solution for mistreatment. If that becomes the reason for every issue. With a people billion people and god knows the number of ethnic section present, India would have been broken to a billion pieces.
