Dear Mr. Athale, You seem to make a lot of assumptions. You cannot relate the present conflict to the ones that took place in ancient and medieval times. The protagonists then were different from the ones now. You have not considered the demographic evolution in tamil south caused by the advent of dynasties from deccan like vujayanagar etc. The present day "tamilians" have nothing to do with those who lived during the times of cholas and pallavas in the ancient and opre-medieval days.
RE:Tamil Elam:quo vadis
by waruna on Jan 14, 2008 07:40 PM Permalink
the legal system in sri lanka is screwed up. there is Dutch and portugese Civil law, there is a criminal code and a british common law system followed by a recognition of ancient tamil property law and a recognition of shariah law. of course the legal system is messed up.
but one must note that there is a war going on, has been for the last 25 years or so. And you shouldn't immediately assume that all people kidnapped from JAFFNA are military. Suicide bombs explode in colombo, Kadiragmar was killed in colombo, were they the Military too.
Thamilchelvam was killed in LTTE controlled territory was he not, and was that done by the LTTE.
don't forget how poor Sri lanka is. its not just the tamils who are poor. if you compare the real numbers tamil people are economically much better off than a lot of the poor sinhala people in the rural areas. this is with most of the war being in tamil areas. what does that tell you?
it never helps to look only though one eye, if you open both you might see something you didn't spot before. But there is nothing wrong with opening them both, even if you end up not seeing anything new.
Eelam will never happen through war. It is a real chance in 50 -100 years when all people can agree for Tamil autonomy in the north. only chance is for long period of peace. followed by economic prosperity.
RE:Tamil Elam:quo vadis
by sethu madhavan on Jan 15, 2008 09:04 AM Permalink
Dear Mr.Varuna, I understand the problems with strife torn srilanka. But terror is terror whether it is perpetrated in srilanka or in USA, or in India. For that matter we may include all the groups like al-qaeda, LTTE, JVP etc in one category. If they are fighting with each other it is a matter of one rogue falling out with other.
But you have to understand that the nature of conflict is different from medieval times. The present day "tamils" are mostly immigrants from deccan states of India during 15th century(like some or many sinhalese). They do not have anything to do with ancient Indian dynasties like cholas etc that they claim to.
