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Sri Lanka's so called "Tamil issue"

BLACK JULY

3000 Tamils were brutally killed and burned to death by Government supported goons in the capital city of Colombo and around the country.
27 years past : Not a single person is punished for this atrocity. This is like a 9/11 for Tamils in SriLanka. Tamils took arms to defend themselves after this incident

 
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BS. trying hard to distort history with your lies, where did the Sinhalese come from and who were they people living in Lanka before the arrival of the Vijaya thugs from Bengal. The marraige alliance of the Vijaya with the Tamil Pandyas etc .

Elara, (also known as Ellalan, Manu Needhi Cholan, Élaezha Chola and Elara the Just), was a Chola king from the Chola Kingdom, in present day South India, who ruled a part of [1] Sri Lanka from 205 BC to 161 BC including [1] the ancient capital of Anuradhapura. Often referred to as 'the Just King'. The Tamil name Ellalan means, 'the one who rules the Ellai (boundary). Elara, a Tamil from the Chola country, is traditionally presented as being a just king even by the Sinhalese.

Elara is consider has a invader. Sinhala Kingdoms faced such invades 5-6 times.
 
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I haven't mentioned the civilians hunting thing. If we really need to kill civilians SL army don't need to wait until last two weeks.

SL has equal treatment and rights to every ethnic group. what are the special rights we Sinhalese have in Sri Lankan constitution?

You know it exists ,I know it exists... for anyone interested , you are just a google search away
 
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You know it exists ,I know it exists... for anyone interested , you are just a google search away

I don't see a reason to kill civilians and keeping the 12,000 Tamil tiger members..
secondly if such a huge number got killed then there should be such amount of injured civilians and terror members. have you ever seen such amount of injured ? 
BLACK JULY

3000 Tamils were brutally killed and burned to death by Government supported goons in the capital city of Colombo and around the country.
27 years past : Not a single person is punished for this atrocity. This is like a 9/11 for Tamils in SriLanka. Tamils took arms to defend themselves after this incident


you have to blame Tamil tigers for that first. Hope you know which incident leads to riots in the island.
 
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SL has equal treatment and rights to every ethnic group. what are the special rights we Sinhalese have in Sri Lankan constitution?

According to Michael Edward Brown and Sumit Ganguly, Fighting words: language policy and ethnic relations in Asia, 2003:

The passage of the Sinhala-Only Act of 1956 was a turning point in Sinhalese-Tamil relations. Tamil grievances subsequently grew because, in Sri Lanka as elsewhere, language policies had wide-ranging implications for educational and economic opportunities. By the 1970s many Tamil youth had become both radicalized and militarized

Language Log » The linguistic roots of the Sri Lankan civil war
 
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According to Michael Edward Brown and Sumit Ganguly, Fighting words: language policy and ethnic relations in Asia, 2003:

The passage of the Sinhala-Only Act of 1956 was a turning point in Sinhalese-Tamil relations. Tamil grievances subsequently grew because, in Sri Lanka as elsewhere, language policies had wide-ranging implications for educational and economic opportunities. By the 1970s many Tamil youth had become both radicalized and militarized

Language Log » The linguistic roots of the Sri Lankan civil war

This is another lie by Tamils. There wasn't act called "Sinhala-Only Act". It is national language act of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). At that time English was the language of our country. So this act replaced the English with Sinhala. Sinhala is majority Sinhalese language, also many other ethnic can use it so I don't see anything wrong with making the Sinhala as national and official language of the country which is native to Sri Lanka.
 
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Cause of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka

In the book titled Sri Lanka: War-Torn Island, published as part of a ‘World in Conflict’ series, the author Lawrence J Swie,r when discussing the root cause of the conflict in Sri Lanka, had this to say about the Mahavamsa:
The greatest importance of the Mahavamsa is not as history but as a symbol.- and as a motivating force behind Sinhala Nationalism. A Sinhalese politician speaking in public is likely to mention incidents from Mahavamsa as evidence of the long and distinguished history the Sinhalese have in Sri Lanka. But Sinhalese political and religious leaders also use Mahavamsa stories as evidence that the whole island should be ruled by Sinhalese Buddhists

Lawrence J Swier, in his book Sri Lanka: War-Torn Island, had this to say about the damage done by him:
'Perhaps more than any other person, Dharmapala was responsible for popularizing the faulty impression that Tamils and Sinhalese had been deadly enemies in Sri Lanka for nearly 2000 years. He often quoted Mahavamsa as if it were a completely factual account, and his favourite passages were those that made the Tamils sound like pagan invaders who were running the island. Much of his preaching and writing was racist. Dharmapala insisted that the Sinhalese were racially pure Aryans – by which he meant that they had racial ties with the North Indians, Iranians and Europeans, He contrasted the Sinhalese racial line with that of the Dravidian Tamils, which he claimed was inferior.' 
you have to blame Tamil tigers for that first. Hope you know which incident leads to riots in the island.

!3 soldiers killed by Tamils Militants, and it triggered a state sponsored genocide against minority Tamils ??

Black July is the common name used to refer to the anti-Tamil pogrom and riots in Sri Lanka during July 1983. The riots began as a response to a deadly ambush on 23 July 1983 by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a Tamil militant group, that killed 13 Sri Lankan Army soldiers. Beginning in the capital Colombo on the night of 24 July 1983, the riots spread to other parts of the country. Over seven days mobs of mainly Sinhalese attacked Tamil targets, burning, looting and killing. Estimates of the death toll range between 400 and 3,000.[1][2] 8,000 homes and 5,000 shops were destroyed.[3] 150,000 people were made homeless.[4] The economic cost of the riots was $300 million.[4] A wave of Sri Lankan Tamils fled to other countries in the ensuing years and many thousands of Tamils youths joined the militant groups.[1][2]
Black July is generally seen as the start of full-scale Sri Lankan Civil War between the Tamil militants and the government of Sri Lanka.[2][5][6][7] July has become a time of remembrance for the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora community around the world.

Black July - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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This is another lie by Tamils. There wasn't act called "Sinhala-Only Act". It is national language act of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). At that time English was the language of our country. So this act replaced the English with Sinhala. Sinhala is majority Sinhalese language, also many other ethnic can use it so I don't see anything wrong with making the Sinhala as national and official language of the country which is native to Sri Lanka.

Did you read - Language Log » The linguistic roots of the Sri Lankan civil war


The Sinhala Only Act (formally the Official Language Act No. 33 of 1956) was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956.[1] The act replaced English as the official language of Ceylon with Sinhala.[1] The act failed to give official recognition to Tamil, which had not received official recognition before.


Sinhala Only Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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Did you read - Language Log » The linguistic roots of the Sri Lankan civil war


The Sinhala Only Act (formally the Official Language Act No. 33 of 1956) was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956.[1] The act replaced English as the official language of Ceylon with Sinhala.[1] The act failed to give official recognition to Tamil, which had not received official recognition before.


Sinhala Only Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think you have not properly read my comment!
 
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okay let's back to topic.

What this "eelam Tamils" means? It means Tamils who live in Sinhalese land.
 
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okay let's back to topic.

What this "eelam Tamils" means? It means Tamils who live in Sinhalese land.

The earliest use of the word is found in a Tamil Brahmi inscription as well as in the Sangam literature. The Thiruparankundram inscription found near Madurai in Tamil Nadu and dated on palaeographical grounds to the 1st century BCE, refers to a person as a householder from Eelam (Eela-kudumpikan).[4] The inscription reads,
: erukatur eelakutumpikan polalaiyan "Polalaiyan, (resident of) Erukatur, the husbandman (householder) from Eelam." .[3]
Since the 1980s the words Eelam and Eelavar have been taken up by the Sri Lankan Tamil resistance movement. In this usage, Eelam refers to Tamil Eelam, an area covering what has been reconstructed by historians as the former Jaffna Kingdom. Eelavar now refers to the future citizens of Tamil Eelam

Eelam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
Bigoted monks and militant mobs: Is this Buddhism in Sri Lanka today? | Groundviews
 
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