RE:Tamil brahmins have completely
by Samosachat on Jan 11, 2008 07:52 PM Permalink
There comes a Brahmin basher. You have no guts to blame any body else and hence blame the softtest target. Get real. I am a Tamil Brahmin and I sympathise Tamils of Sri Lanka. Dont lose the sympathy of the only few sympathisers you have. In fact I am of the opinion that LTTE is mosly Christians and they get help from christian organization which is a smart thing to do.
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by mariackon enigo on Jan 11, 2008 08:18 PM Permalink
hello bramin akka, Is ltte chief is christian? I am wondering
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by gentle man on Jan 11, 2008 08:21 PM Permalink
Mind your words. Do you have any rock solid evidence to say that the LTTE is mostly christians? I guess not. So please dont resort to such ways to save your skin by calling yourself the softest target.
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by Samosachat on Jan 11, 2008 08:35 PM Permalink
Why do I have to save my skin? Tamil Brahmins are the softest targets. I dont have to give you any more rock solid proof than our dear Thambi has to give proof that it si Tamil Brahmins who screwed LTTE. It is a fact that majority of LTTE is christian.
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by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Jan 12, 2008 03:40 AM Permalink
Maojority of LTTE are HIndu (80%) like its leader. and around 20% are Christians, This reflects the religious make up of teh ethnic or native SriLankan Tamil oroginating fromthe North East and parts of North West SriLanka. Unlike Tamil nadu where the lower and backward castes predominate. The native Sri Lankan Tamils are predominantly of teh higher and middle castes. Even thesocalled backward and lower castes amongst them are not that backward and humble but very literate.Therefor no one is really opressed due totheor caste ( unlike a generation or two ago). The caste issue really comes when it marriage even this is gradually breaking. The population is not obsessed with caste or skin colour. MOat Native SriLankan Tamils both Hindu and Christian belong to the Vellalar caste, this caste consists around 50% of the native Sri Lankan Tamil population. The Vellalars have traditionally been very closely allied to the Brahmins. This is one of the reasons that there is not anit Brahmin feelings amongs teh native Srilankan Tamils. Secondly The native Srialankan Tamil Barahmins ahave always been very wel integrated withteh rest of the Tamil population (thoer numbaers are few ) and have traditionally been temple preists. Lot of them are now very educated and are in the professions. There never has been isuue here that they opressed the other Tamil communities, They are very well respected by the rest of thoer fellow Tamils. Infact of all the Native Tamil communities they are the most
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by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Jan 12, 2008 04:29 AM Permalink
The Ltte is very secular its leader may be HIndu ( including Pirabakaran and his family) but they have never espoused or supported one religion or another. This reflects the position of moat Sri Lankan Tamils and in most tamils in Tamil Nadu too. The Tamils as people are very secular. TO them relgion is one's own personal belief. Even when the LTTE chased away the Muslims form the NOrth it had nothing to do with HIndu fanaticism. but the mere fact tehat these tamil Muslims cannot be trusted, They do not identify themsleves as Tamils in SriLanka (despeite thoer obvious Tamil origin) this is also encouraged by sucessive SriLankan governmens so that is the Tamils are divided by relgious and regional lines they become weak and can be easily destroyed. (Many Tamis of recent Indian origin have also succumbed to this and deny their Tami lheritage like teh Catholic Paravars and the Chetties in Colombo.)any way thiese Muslims state they are descended from Arabs when only around 5 to 10% of them have some Arab/Persian blood. The Hindu and Christian Tamils find this very insulting. Furhter tey have sided with the Sinhla government, especialay in the Tamil East as their aimis to have a Muslim eastern province once teh largely alomost 100% Tamil Hindus are chased away in the east. Saudi and Pakistani governmet ar funding Muslim madrassas in the East with SL govt support. They are also armed by the SL govt to attack Tamil Hindu villages in teh east. The LLte did not this in the North.
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by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Jan 12, 2008 06:06 AM Permalink
That the Tamil Christians are more vocal and more obvious in the Tamil conflict does not mean that they are pnly supporting the Tamil emancipation. The LTTe or the Tamil movment would not have come to this level without the support of the large Tamil Hindu masses. From the Brahmin to the Dalit. They are the overwhelming majority (depsite all large scale conversions due to predicament most native Tamils find themselves ) and will always be the majority too.( The Portuguese were very brutal and tried all methods to forcibly convert all the Tamils in the North and East to Catholism, they detroyed hundreds of Hindu temples and kileed anyone who did not convert, lots of people fled to India and to independent Vanni, but most pretended to be Catholic and practised Hinduism in secret. They openly reverted to Hinduism when they left around 200 to 300 years later. However theh Eelam Tamils lost a lotby this. They lost their freedom which they never gained, and the entire Tamil western and southern coasts who got forcibly converted to Catholism and later most of them to Buddhism never retruned to the Tamil fold but became Sinhala int 1600s they now make up aroudn 50% of the Sinhlas and are the most anti Eelam Tamil).Most Christians are taught to fight agins injustice strongly. The Tamil Christians are no exception. The native Tamils have been left destitute and the Tamil Chritians know that they are they only ones who can highlight their plight through the international church.
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by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Jan 12, 2008 04:12 AM Permalink
sorry lots have them have borne the worst amount of discrimination. Even recently the Sri lankan Army had wanted all the names of the Tamil Brahmins living around the Jaffna region. The IPKF harrased them a lot too, as they were very suspicious thatthe Native Tamil Brahmins and the Tamil Christian/Catholic priests were supporting the LTTE. In Sri Lanka the church is divided along ethnic lines. Other than a few Sinhala Chrisian priests who openly condemnthe the racist polies of succesive SriLankan governments. Most of teh Sinhala church and the Sinhala Christians are firmly behind the Sri lankan governmet. In fact the Sinhla Catholic Church of teh South actively participated in the forced assimilation and Sinhlalisation of aorund 250000 poor Tamil Catholic fishermen in the Chilaw and Puttalam districts, soon after independence. The Sinhala Christian like their native Tamil counterparts are very well bonded with their Buddhist ethnic kin. Like the Native SriLankan Tamil Christians, they have realtives and close family ties amongst the majority Buddhists and will arrange and amrry mongst teh Buddhists generally on caste lines. In fact the Bandarnaikes, Jeyawardenes. the Wickremesinges are from Christian families, They only became Buddhists ofr political gain. The SInhlese unlike the Native Tamils will not accpet a Christian as thoer leader . The largely HIndu Tamils have elected Chritians as thoer leaders.Even President Mahinda Rajapakse's Wife is form a CHrisitian family
