Gintota is currently facing a heavily tense situation with impending riots, by Sinhalese mobs against Muslims.
Reports from the ground said that there is a riot building up currently after a Sinhalese group of youth had assaulted bunch of Muslims who were playing.
A skirmish between two groups over a bike accident has escalated to violence. According to reports, a Muslim child had been knocked down by a Sinhalese youth on 13 November 2017. That incident was settled after the victims were paid by the bike rider.
On 16 November 2017 a Sinhalese group of youth had assaulted two Muslim motorbike riders while reminding them the 13th November incident. After one Muslim victim was hospitalised, a group led by a former Muslim urban council member attacked two houses belonging to Sinhalese. One Sinhala man was hospitalised as a consequence of the attack. The same day police have arrested the council member as well as Sinhalese who attacked the Muslim motorbike riders.
Today a small mosque and several houses belonging to Muslims in Gintota have been attacked by Sinhala mobs leading to major tensions. Police and the special task force were mobilized yesterday and withdrawn this afternoon when tensions eased. It erupted again this evening when a large mob from outside had arrived and started pelting stones at the mosque.
The Muslim youth too are gathering and tensions are rising. The STF and police have been mobilized again, and tear gas has been used at the mob that had gathered. Muslim youth are worried that Gintota may become another Aluthgama.
Updated – 11.50 pm
Police curfew has been imposed in the Gintota police area (Welipitimodara, Maha Hapugala, Rukwatta, Gintota/West and East, Pidiyagama and Kurunduwatta) till 9 am tomorrow following the clash. The police have arrested 16 Sinhalese and 3 Muslims.
Sinhala_Man / November 17, 2017
What sort of country are we becoming that we talk so nonchalantly about “impending riots”? We should have a system of law enforcement that nips these things in the bud.
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Amarasiri / November 18, 2017
Para-Sinhala at it again.
Why are the Paras in the Land of Native Veddah Aethho still?
he Para-Sinhala should get back home, to their homeland, India, Bharat, Damba-Diva, Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, South India and other places, and take their fellow Paras with them.
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John / November 18, 2017
As always Muslims have started the riot. There are 4 million plus Muslims, at least 3 million or so have been smuggled illegally recently and settled all over the island strategically by Muslim politicians and Muslim organizations. So, this riot was bound to happen sooner or later.
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REMEMBER, Muslims keep coming to Sri Lanka illegally and they are living off Sinhalese.
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On youtube video, it’s evident that these Muslims are from coastal areas of Tamil Nadu. They are speaking Tamil Nadu Tamil.
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Mano / November 18, 2017
Learn to read articles before you embarrass yourself with silly comments. Which troll farm do you belong to?
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2017
Johnny Baby
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Where you’ve been?
Could you refer me the youtube video. You are confused, the video you watched must have been porn clips.
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Burt / November 18, 2017
Jonny boy’s got a point. He is referring to the maids sent from SL returning with a Muslim bundle of joy from ME. Now call them Sinhala Buddhist.
He seem to be a little short on English language and uses illegal instead of illegitimate. How many of them are wrapped in turmeric cloth.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 18, 2017
Other than the ones living in the North and East, the rest always spoke a dialect spoken by the Tamil Muslims of Tamil Nadu or other Tamil Nadu dialects. However this does not mean they deserved to be attacked over an accident and treated in this manner
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Radical Ideas / November 18, 2017
All of these activities are the continued criminality of the Govigama Mafia Organised operation. Ranil, Maithree, Mahinda, Wijewardenes’ dual evil media organisations (Wijeya and Upali Newspapers) with Lankadeepa, Daily Mirror, Sunday Times, Divaina and Island racist papers inciting the Sinhalese to continue their violence against the weak minority population.
From the fake British independence gained from the British, the Govigama Jewish backed criminals were been handed over the power to do what they like. DS Senanayake began the newly given power to implement the Govigama racist politics in line with the Jewish planned Zionist mission which was implemented through the Theosophical Society headed by the racist Satanist Anagarika Dharmapala another Govigama criminal.
What is seen today is the continuity of this evil scheme.
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Eneth / November 18, 2017
Read the article completely you dumb fuck
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fella / November 18, 2017
muslims came illegally??? hahahah. So u morons came from India isn’t it. Bloody fools
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Sherantha / November 18, 2017
Try not to make imbecile remarks… Johny Batto !!
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Rishard / November 18, 2017
John,
Less than 1% of Muslims & Tamils are occupying state sector jobs today in SL. Muslims, mostly are doing businesses from ‘petty cades’ to multi-national companies. So, they don’t depend on state salaries, pensions, state sector jobs for their generations to come and other benefits that are enjoyed by state sector employees, yet all are equally paying the taxes.
To put it in a different way, Muslims find their living on their own, without depending on the government or staging protests to demand jobs from the government and still paying the taxes.
My opinion is that people who depend more on the government are the ones living off others. What you say? ;)
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K.Anaga / November 18, 2017
Muslims Speak Tamil from Habantota to Jaffna from time immemorial.Thus they must have come from South India and their mother tong is Tamil though some don’t like to accept it after the Sinhala only Act was passed.. They want to be a community without description to suit their needs from time to time. .
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Fathima / November 18, 2017
K.Anaga,
If you feel some joy in calling SL Muslims are from South India, you’re free as long as that makes you happy. But..
Tamil is not the only mother tongue of Muslims. There are many Muslims whose native tongue is Sinhala. Muslims are just talented with speaking both these languages fluently with the exact accent that you can’t guess what their native language is. Take Rauf Hakeem, Bakir Makar for instance.
There is another popular argument: Muslims must have come here for trade from Arabian countries and settled down in various places and picked up the language spoken in that area.
So you can’t categorize Muslims are Tamils based on what they speak. If we follow your theory as what India also does, then some Muslims would have to be called Sinhalese while others Burghers.
Also, Muslims are not a community without a description, rather Muslims value their own identity based on their unique culture and religion, while they choose (whichever) language as just a tool to ease their communication needs (as intended for).
If Muslims are from South India, why Malayalam of Keralites has not become their mother tongue? Kerala is just next to us and Tamil Nadu is still far. Why is the majority of SL Muslims skin complexion different from the majority of TN folks?
So you like when SL Govt divides Tamils into Indian Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamil, but you’re unhappy about calling Muslims as “Sri Lankan Moor”?
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 19, 2017
Anaga is correct there may be some Arab element but that is negligible the predominant and overwhelming element in the genetic make up of the Sri Lankan Muslims is Tamil. In this genetically proven. The Muslim community that has the largest amount of Arab blood in India are the Malayalam speaking Mapilla Musims from northern Kerala, however even these people have only 15% Arab DNA and the rest is Indian. The Tamil speaking Sri Lankan Muslim who migrated from Tamil Nadu have far less Arab and other western Asian blood in them. What a stupid answer why Malayalam did not become you mother tongue instead of Tamils because your ancestors are ethnic Tamil Muslims and when the migration took place in the late 14Th century, there was no such language called Malayalam existing. The language of Kerala was still Tamil. Islam is a religion and not a race of ethnicity as you are trying to portray and the Sri Lankan Muslims are Tamils. Lastly all Tamils are not dark. Millions of Tamils in Tamil Nadu are brown and very light skinned and all Sri Lankan Muslims are not light skinned, the vast majority are very dark. The light skinned elite are a result of selective marriage with light skinned females. I know many rich Muslims families have white European grandmothers and are now boasting this light skin is due to Arab blood. Gulf Arabs are not that light skinned many are dark and have Negro blood. You are not Moors. Moors are Berbers from North Africa . You are Tamil Muslims and whether you like it or not it is fact. Even now you want to deny your actual origin and cling to a fake Origin or an origin that is very insignificant in the Sri Lankan Muslim genetic make up. Arabs never came here in thousands. Just a few hundred over a span of centuries and they never brought their women. They took local Tamil women.
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Fathima / November 19, 2017
Real Siva…siva…
Sorry mate, I did not have the time to read all that you have written there. But I am sure you’re agreeing with the other blind there. No worries about the facts, whatever makes you comfortable, please stick to it as long as it makes you a happy man. Cheers!
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 19, 2017
Cheers and also stick to your Arabian night fairy tale of an Arab origin for the so called Sri Lankan Moors( sic), if that makes you happy. How did Arabs become Moors? One is from North Africa ,Berbers and the other a Semitic people originated from Western Asia.
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SJ / November 19, 2017
RSS
Do some serious research.
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The earliest known existing record of a distinct Malayalam language is found in the form of an inscription dating to circa 830 CE.
The earliest known extant literary work in Malayalam is Ramacharitam, an epic poem written by Cheraman around late 12th or early 13th Century CE.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 19, 2017
You do you research. You you very petty vain and vindictive , have a grouse against me and come here and argue for the sake of arguing to try to score some petty points. Yes the original details about the Malayalam has been edited by some Malayalee zealots in the Wikapedia , just like many Sinhalese keep on editing . Even until 1865 the language of 90% of the population of Kerala was Malayalama or Lingua Malabar Tamil and this was written in the Tamil Script. The powerful Syrian Christian Church of Kerala used Tamil until the 1780 or early 1800s. The court of Travancore also used Tamil until the 1700s. The Portuguese actually printed their first books in Lingua Malabar Tamul around 1560s using Portuguese writing system.Alternating lines of Lingua Malabar Tamul (Malayalam-Tamil or Malayanma) with the original Portuguese literature was found in Cadilha printed at Lisbon in the 1560s.In the same era the main art form of Keralas Christians was Chavittu Natakam in Tamil composed by Chinnathambi Annavi..The Christiani Vanakkam, and Thambiran Vanakkam all are written in Malayanma or Malayalam Tamil the native language of Kerala, a Dialect of Tamil. In Kerala these Malayanma books were printed in the places where the the Malayali Christians were thickly populated ie Angamaly Quilon and Thalassery which were Portuguese strongholds in that Era. Portuguese era ended in 1660s. The Dutch continued to print books in Malayalam-Tamil from Ambazhakkad near Puthenvelikkara near Angamaly as late as 1760s.The Malayalam-Tamil remained as the language of worship till 1820s for the Malayali Christians. Copenhagen
museum still houses a copy of Tamil Flos Sanctoram printed at Angamaly
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 20, 2017
Sorry ” You do your research and you are pretty vain
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SJ / November 21, 2017
I will keep the research part and leave the vanity (pretty or not) to you for vanity comes easy to those who have nothing to be proud of but caste and race identity which make little sense and may not even be Real, SSS.
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SJ / November 21, 2017
You are pathetic with your caste-bound anti-Muslim mindset.
You fiddled history to give a bogus explanation why Muslims did not speak Malayalam
My references were to the existence of a distinct dialect and early literary records.
Correct me on Malayalam if I am wrong.
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Malayalam as a dialect deviated from Tamil of Chola & Pandya countries long ago, thanks to the geographical barrier and Sanskritiation that accompanied Brahmin influence.
Malayalis do not hesitate to address Tamil as the mother tongue, but are proud of Malayalam, which progressed much faster than Tamil in the second half of the Second Millennium. It preserves well in speech the sounds unique to Tamil which are not pronounced correctly by a vast majority of Tamils. they are proud of that too.
The point is that spoke a different language when Muslim migration occurred.
Do not fiddle with fact to fit your distortion of history.
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This bit from Wikipedia may (or more probably not) help you.
Muslims of Kerala, of which Mappilas constitute a majority…Mappilas share the common language of Malayalam with the other inhabitants of Kerala. Islam reached Malabar Coast as early as the 7th century AD and was assimilated with the culture and traditions of the local people.
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Pandi Kutti / November 21, 2017
What Siva Sankaran states is true you just a nasty vain pathetic creature. Short and sweet will not state more. You have lost the argument with Siva and are a nasty looser. You hate Tamils and anyone who stands up for them
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 19, 2017
There were two languages in that era in Kerala. The General population used the Malayanma or Malayalam- Tamil but the ruling classes of Nambudiris and Nairs used a different form of languages which because of their Northern origins at Ahichatra at the Uttranchal-Nepal had a mixture of Sanskrit of Aryans, and Prakrit of Nagas. This Tulu Grantha-Bhasa of the Nambudiris intrigued the Dutch-German Missionaris such as Arnos Padiri in 1699 who resided at Melur.The German and Dutch Missionaries who arrived in the after 1700s discovered that the German language had closely resembled Sanskrit. This made the German-Dutch missionaries more interested in Nambudiri language, Grantha Bhasa. Arnos Padiri wrote books in that. language then called Grantha Bhasa
(Modern Malayalam).He wrote a book called Grantha Bhasayude Vyagaranam (Arnos Padiri did not call it Malayalam because in that era the word Malayalam meant Malayalam- Tamil written with Tamil Script). When the Dutch and British started promoting the Grantha Bhasa or Grantha Malayalam (Sanskritised Malayalam written with Tulu Script) as a means of suppressing and erasing their earlier history. Malayanma was forcibly removed from history by the British in the 1810 when they forced Tulu writing system as the writing system of
Malayalam and promoted the Grantha (Sanskritised) Malayalam used by Nambudiris which was written with Tulu script. Tulu script had been brought to Kerala by Nambudiris and Nairs who established a Matriarchal kingdom in Kerala in the fourteenth century from Tulunadu. Benjamin Bailey a Missionary made the first Tulu-Malayalam script types when he was staying at Basil Mission at
Mangalore 1819.The British established Kottayam Seminary to teach the Grantha Malayalam which was made the official language of Kerala. Herman Gundert a German Missionary made the Grantha Malayalam popular in Kerala who started the first Grantha Malayalam. news paper called Rajya Samacharam.The British promotion of Grantha Malayalam written with Tulu script led to the decline of
Malayanma which used to be written. with Tamil Script or Malayanma Script (Vattezuthu or Kolezhuthu). The Malabar(Malayalam)-Tamil dictionary composed by Grahamshaw in 1796 was nothing but English-Tamil dictionary.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 19, 2017
British suppression of Malayanma led to the disappearance of all the Tamil-Malayanma books of Kerala written prior to 1800s. Only books written by Nambudiris in the 17th century with Sanskrit 80 percent with 20 percent Dravidian Malayalam survive.In otherwords British supported the language of Nagas and Aryans who had migrated from Ahichatram in Uttarkhand/Nepal through Tulunadu while destroying all indigenous Dravidian Tamil Malayalam books. Thus Flos Sanctorum and Kiristiyaani Vanakkam were written for the Tamils of Kerala in Malayanma.The word Kiristayani itself a Malayalam word. Thamburan or Thambiran signifies Gods and Kings in Malayalam . All this was in the original Wikipedia and Malayalee zealots came and edited and now have created their own version. However if yo u know to research you will find the truth. Even now Kerala has two languages . The simple spoken languages of the massed is almost Tamil and the language used by the media is the highly Sanskritised language of the Namboothiris and the Nairs (Mennons Nambiars Kurrups , Unnithan and Pillais) who are immigrants. These people are still very anti Tamil and want to destroy Tamil, and took a major role in the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide. For your information I have Malayalee first cousins. Menons as one of my aunts married a Malayalee and I do know Kerala well.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 20, 2017
http://www.thehindu.com/2005/10/14/stories/2005101407670300.htm
This is from the Hindu and from reputed scholars. With regards to the Malayalam language the original Wikipedia had all these even as late as 2015 . I know as I read these. Later Malayalees have edited all these deleted whatever they do not like and added what they wanted to. The highly Sanskritised Grantha language writted in the Tulu based script now called Malayalam thanks the British and Germans, was never considered as Malayalam it was the local Tamil dialect Malayalama written in Tamil , the language of the masses was only considered Malayalam. This is like original Chingkalam was the semi Tamil simple Dravidian dialect Elu. Later with the arrival of Buddhism and Elu getting corrupted with the Pali/Prakrit and Sanskrit of Buddhism it became Hela and then the monks started to call the newly evolving language that was based on Elu+Pali + Sanskrit as Sinhalese from the original semi Tamil Elu or Chingkalam. The same tactic was used by the British and the ruling Namboothiris/Nairs who migrated and originated from further north. They hijacked the word Malayalam or Malayalama used for the local Tamil dialect for their highly Sanskritized Grantha language to make it more acceptable to the massed.
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Fathima / November 20, 2017
RSS,
I am jealous about how blessed you’re with the luxury of time. Ha..ha…ha…no matter if others read it or not, you continue to write an essay on each of your comment – But merely to make a fact into a lie.
As I said, if you feel proud calling Muslims are originally Tamils like you, we have no issues, continue and enjoy your days..he..he.he
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SJ / November 21, 2017
Grantha language?
Stop joking.
Such howlers result not from lack of research but lack of common knowledge.
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Grantha was a script developed to write Sanskrit in the Tamil country, and was adapted in good part to replace the earlier script, I think Vattezuththu.
Malayalam, owing to a high degree of Sanskritization (far more than Kannada), took it almost unchanged. Sinhala too adopted Grantha, but rather rounded the letters.
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Tamils seem to have been rather daft not to adapt extra letters to show the k-g, t-d, th-dh and p-b distinctions. (The aspirated-nonaspirated or mahaprana-alpaprana distinction in Sanskrit was not important to Tamil and rarely matters now in many Indo Aryan languages.
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Rohan / November 21, 2017
Nasty SJ . Siva Sankaran is correct even unbiased Malayalees state the same . You argue here just for the sake of arguing and then turn nasty when you have lost the argument.
What is your game here? Constantly attacking Tamils and Siva Sankaran? You think we have not noticed it. I know what you want , you once posted to that Sinhalese racist , that Siva Sankaran should be chased out of the forum. It that why you are joining hands with Sinhalese racists and Islamic extremists to achieve your aim
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Rohan / November 21, 2017
This is from a Abraham from Quora ” How do most people in Kerala know Tamil”
“Tamil is the Lingua-franka, culture, and base of the wealthiest and the most valiant powerful Pandyan Kingdom(Ancient and Modern). However, every Malayalee knows that Kerala was once part of the large Tamilaham and that the Chera dynasty fell to the Pandya – Chola Alliance and merged with Venad was and then on a feduatory state to the Pandyas and then to the Madurai Nayaks and then gave up its sovereignty to the British. The indigenous language of Kerala, Malayanma, otherwise called Kodunthamizh or Malayalam-Tamil or Malayala Thamozhi or Lingua Malabar Tamul with Pandyan Tamil Grammar and prosody with Pandyan Tamil vocabulary but varied slangs continued to be used by Syrian Christians and the indigenous and the Grantha Pasha by Nambuthris, until the Church Mission Society established at Kottayam in 1815 started teaching Grantha Bhasa to Syrian Christians. In 1819 Benjamin Bailey (missionary) started coalesced Malayanma with Granthabhasa and called it Middle Malayalam. With the efforts to make Grantha Bhasa as liturgical language. British-German missionaries such as Hermann Gundert added more of Dravidian words of Malayanma to the Grantha Bhasa and created the Modern Malayalam with Sanskrit Grammar and prosody which use Tulu (Tigalari alphabet) and made it the official language of the Annexed State to Madras Presidency
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Rohan / November 21, 2017
Even today, apart from Malayalam,
I. Brahmans as Nambuthiris speak Grantha Pasha. II. Vysyas like All Migrated Syrian Christians of Antioch with roots from Constantinople, Babylon, Jerusalem, Armenia to Kerala who held privileged copper plate grants speak in Three languages . 1. Either the one(Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Armenian, Hebrew).
2. GranthaPasha and 3, Lingua Malabar Tamil. Jews – Judeo Malayanma, Muslims – Mappila Malayalam Dialect. III. The later Kshathriyan Dynasty(Travancore, Cochin, kolathiri and Calicut) speak GranthaPasha and Tamil. but the earlier Kshathriyan Dynasties prior to 1500(Chera, Venad, Ay) speak in Pure Tamil as the Pandiyans. IV. It is the later refugees and liberated Sudras to Naduvazhis post 1820, and the then liberated in 1855-1872 of Travancore, Cochin and Calicut following the Abolish of Slavery act in 1855 that speak only Malayalam.
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Kumar / November 19, 2017
Fathima,
None can dispute the fact that the bulk of the Moors of Sri Lanka (Marakkala Minissu or Sonahars) came from South India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu). The fact is that Islam had come to South India direct from the country of the Holy Prophet in the 7th century. However, the Moors who settled down in the South-Western Coasts of Sri Lanka as traders in the late 14th century were all Tamil speaking from the Malabar and Coromandal coasts of South India. This has been testified to by Marco Polo and by Barbosa in his account of the Island in 1519. Both these travelers agree that large numbers of ‘Moors’ from the South Indian coasts resorted constantly to Sri Lanka. The first settlement took place at Beruwala, somewhere in the late 14th century (Ibn Batuta visited the Island in 1344, but makes no mention of any Moors/Muslims). The Sri Lankan Moors lived primarily in coastal trading, preserving their Islamic customs and the South Indian language/culture. When the Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka it was the Moors who first organized resistance against them to safeguard the trade of the Moors along the Western sea-board. During the Portuguese rule the Moors suffered widespread persecution, they treated them very harshly because they were their rivals in trade and they refused to become converts to Christianity. Due to the Portuguese persecution, many Moors fled to the up-country and were seeking help from King Senarat of Kandy who settled some of them in up-country and many others in the North-Eastern Coasts of Sri Lanka. Some of them still bear Malabar/Tamil names like Periya Marikkar, Sinna Lebbe, Pitchai Thamby, and so on.
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Pandi Kutti / November 19, 2017
She disputes every thing other than her imagined Arab origin. They are definitely not Moors and Moors are not even Arabs but from North Africa. The Arab and other western Asian element among the so called Sri Lankan Moors is very little or negligible compared to the Tamil element. She ignores and denies the more than 95% Tamil genetic input among the Sri Lankan Muslims and goes on harping and claiming about the 5% of less Arab element among them and claim it as their exclusive origin. When they migrated from their Indian homeland ( Kerala and Tamil Nadu ) their was no language called Malyalam , all these areas were speaking Tamil. What is she ranting about Malayalam? Lots of Sri Lankan Muslims are light skinned so are lots of Sinhalese and Tamils what is the big deal being a few shades lighter than the rest of the population? Has she really seen actual whites or light skinned people? Very racist and weird arguments. What is Muslim culture? Whabbai? Arab Islamic culture is different from Indian or Malay or African Islamic culture. No universal Islamic culture?
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Fathima / November 20, 2017
Pandi Kutti,
These are serious topics to be discussed among the serious, matured people.
You should stick to topics like ‘how to skim a credit card at EU fuel station’.
“lots of Tamils are light-skinned”. Sinhalese, yes. But how come Tamils, unless mothers lived in Muslim neighborhoods :) LOL
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Pandi Kutti / November 21, 2017
Serious topics are to be discussed but with serious and learned people which unfortunately you are not, as seen from your comments about skin colour and lewd comments about Tamil mothers living in Muslim neighbourhoods. Do not judge others by your low family standards’
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Fathima / November 20, 2017
So Kumar,
Is this how you guys change history? Now I know how a still 10% population in a country claim 2500 years of history in the land…he..he
No offence please
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SJ / November 21, 2017
F,
Not that I am interested in the who came first hot air, but I dare say that your argument is weak.
Later immigrants have overwhelmed earlier settlers in N. America and Australia.
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Kumar / November 21, 2017
Fathima Dear,
It is not me saying it or twisting history. It was said and written by popular travelers/visitors to Sri Lanka during that period and I am only quoting them. Do you think they twisted the ‘Moor’ history in Sri Lanka?
This is what Barbosa says in his account of the Island in 1519 in his book ‘Economic, Political and Social Geography of Maritime Asia’. A large numbers of ‘Moors’ from the South Indian (Malabar and Coromandel Coasts) resorted constantly to Sri Lanka. Barbosa speaks of their heads covered with handkerchiefs and of their earrings so heavy that they hang down to their shoulders. A handkerchief was necessary to cover their shaven crowns, while the earrings indicated most emphatically their South Indian origins. They lived primarily in coastal trading and agricultural communities, preserving their Islamic customs and the South Indian language/culture. (There is much more about them, I cannot type all of them here).
Arab traders used to visit the western coast of India (Coastal Malabar) as early as the 7th century AD. Malabar region in South India was a link between them and ports of South East Asia to trade. They intermarried with local people (Hindus) in Malabar and with this admixture the large Muslim community of Kerala evolved.
However, writers such as Humayun Kabir (Indian Heritage) has pointed out that the majority of the Muslims of South India are converts to Islam (from Hinduism) and not Arabs.
The settlement at Beruwala (South-West coast of Sri Lanka), which the Sri Lankan ‘Moors’ generally admit to be the first of all their settlements, took place not earlier than the 14th century (after 1344). Ibn Batuta visited the Island in 1344, but makes no mention of any ‘Moors/Muslims’ at Beruwela (or anywhere else in the island) though it lay directly on his route from Galle to Colombo.
Professor Courtnay in his ‘History of Ceylon’, (pp. 13-14) says that had not the Portuguese come to Sri Lanka the entire Island would have come under the control of the ‘Moors’.
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Kumar / November 21, 2017
Fathima Dear,
Continued from above…
The first Indian mosque (Cheraman Juma Masjid) was built in 621 CE by the last ruler of the Chera Kingdom, who converted to Islam and facilitated the proliferation of Islam in Malabar.
A good number of Malabar Muslims (Sonakar) were enlisted in the naval force of Zamorin and given the title of Marakkar (so named because they were using wooden boats). The Marakkar established a monopoly in the commercial activities in the Indian Ocean and one of their main trade was spices. The South Western coast of Sri Lanka where the premium quality spices (such as cinnamon) were grown was the first landing/settling place of the Marakkar (Marakkala Minissu) in Sri Lanka. They are the people who brought the banana known today among the Sinhalese as Koolikutu (from Kozhikode/Malabar), in Jaffna they call it Kappal palam (because they brought it in the ship/Kappal from the Kozhikode port). Vattil Appam is a Malabar dish introduced to Sri Lanka by these Marakkar Muslims (Moors). Since then it has got modified in Sri Lanka as Watalappam and certain amount of its taste has changed.
It is wrongly believed in Sri Lanka that the Sri Lankan Muslims (Moors) descend from Moorish Arab merchants who married native (Sinhalese & Tamil) wives after having them converted to Islam. The fact is, bulk of the ‘Moors’ in Sri Lanka, as it has been amply demonstrated again and again, are not Moorish Arab Merchants but Tamil/Malabar speaking Sonakar who came from South India. Except for a few visitors like Ibn Battuta, the Arabs did not come direct to Sri Lanka. If they had come to Sri Lanka (South Western coast) direct from the Middle East and married to Sinhalese women, today their descendants (Sri Lanka Moors) should be speaking Arabic or Sinhala as their mother tongue but throughout the island even today their mother tongue is Malabarish Tamil.
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Kumar / November 21, 2017
Fathima Dear,
Continued from above…
I can write a lot about the very first Muslim (Moor) families (Malabar/Tamil) that settled in the Island. One such family is the Markar family (Bakeer Markar, Markan Marker and so on). It is the members of the Markar family who took the ‘Parangiya to Kotte’ when the Portuguese wanted to meet the King of Kotte and we all know how the Parangiya went to Kotte.
I can bring more and more evidence to prove that what I said is the fact and nothing is twisted. If you need more I can give you more, only problem is, I have to extract from the books and type it here.
Your argument that 10% population would not have lived for 2500 years is very silly when you see the original native Veddas who lived for more than 3000 years is only 2% of the population. How the Sinhalese became a majority in a short period is a different story/history that is already established by reputed historians and anthropologists like Professor K.M. de Silva in his book `A History of Sri Lanka`, Professor of Anthropology Gananath Obeyesekere (in his book “Buddhism, Ethnicity, and Identity,”), Dr. Paul E. Pieris has published extracts from the Portuguese tombo records which gives the original (Tamil) names of the present day Sinhalese with Portuguese surnames before their conversion to Christianity and Buddhism, and several others have written about how the Sinhala population expanded. I do not want to elaborate on this because this is not our subject.
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Pandi Kutti / November 21, 2017
Kumar this woman is a nasty anti Tamil and has been brainwashed to believe she is Arab and will keep on arguing that she is a Moors when Moors are not even Arabs but Berbers from North Africa. She is aided and abetted by people like SJ who only for reasons known to him/her is constantly attacking the Tamil bloggers here, especially Siva Sankaran and siding with all the Sinhalese racists like Shenali and anti Tamil Muslims like Fatima. To him all Tamil comments are offensive but not the odious anti Tamil venom that these people vomit out here.
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SJ / November 21, 2017
Kumar
Looking at the offensive and even daft comments coming from Tamil commentators, Fatima, despite her anti-Tamil prejudices, has a point.
Who will like to share ancestors with the likes of such Tamils.
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Rohan / November 21, 2017
Definitely not with your ancestors , as you are good example of what they have produced
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Nikhil / November 21, 2017
You acknowledge that Fatima is an anti Tamil but defend her offensive often racist and nasty remarks about the Tamils and side with her, as you are another anti Tamil. This oozes out all your biased comments with regards to Tamils and your extremely pro Muslim sentiments. Tamils are not making offensive comments , to post the real origin of the Sri Lankan Muslims or for that matter the Sinhalese is not offensive. You and they find it offensive as you are racist and believe racist superiority myths and do not want that myth to be shattered. What stupid and offensive remark ” Who will like to share ancestors with the likes of such Tamil” What is your purpose and game and what is this grudge against RSS? Our ancestors are our ancestors and wether we like it our not they are our ancestors and we inherit everything from them. This includes you and Fatima. It is you and she who are being offensive by denying your actual ancestry and claiming an imagined ancestry ,as you feel it is more prestigious and beneficial. This is disgusting.
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Silva / November 21, 2017
RSSS aka Pandi Kutti aka Rohan aka Nikhil,
All what you are saying will be credible only if you give references as evidence to prove your point. Otherwise, it looks like you are creating stuff from thin air. What is your original source?
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 22, 2017
I am not all these people, Pandi Kutti is a Christian as he once stated, that he is closely related to the Kathirgammar, I am no Christian. However since I started this I have already given the reference from the Madras Hindu article where reputed Scholars an anthropologists as well have confirmed all this . Lingua Malabar Tamul or the Tamil language as it was called in Kerala was the language of what is now Kerala, even as far as early 1800s . The Tamil English dictionary was by Graham Shaw in Kerala called itself Malabar and English dictionary This was stated by T.B Venugoplan
Pannicker former head of the department of Malayalam at the university of Calicut. N.M Karaserri professor of Malayalam K,F George the editor of famous Malayala Manorama and K. Moidu the former head of the chamber of commerce of Calicut and many other eminent people spoke. Lingua Malayalam Tamul or the local Chera Tamil or the western dialect of Tamil that was spoken by 80-90% of the population of Kerala and the powerful Syrian Christian church of Kerala ,was deliberately destroyed by the British rulers missionaries as their allies were the ruling Namboothiri Brahmins and the Nairs who migrated from the north and spoke and used a highly Sanskritised dialect called Grantha written in a Tulu based script. In 1810 the British declared this as the official language of Kerala added few more Tamil words to it and called it modern Malayalam and banned Malyalama and its publicationand destroyed any evidence of this ancient western Tamil dialect.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 22, 2017
The Tamil dialects spoken in what is modern Tamil Nadu is based on the eastern Tamil dialects of the former Pandian and Chola kingdoms . This was pure or ChenTamizh at that time and standard classical Tamil is based on this. The Western of Chera Tamiz dialect that was spoken in what is modern Kerala was kodum Tamizh or more a colloquial Tamil but ironically modern Malayalam like Sri Lankan Tamil dialects have retained many words from the classical Tamil period that has now gone out of usage in Tamil Nadu. Sri Lankan Tamil is a mixture of western and eastern Tamil dialects. In ancient times it would have been closer to the Tamil spoken in Chera Nadu it was part their sphere of influence. The island was called Cherantheevu ( the island of the Cheras hence many think Serendib is a corruption of this). However it changed due to the Chola and Pandian invasions and rule. Still many Indian Tamils mistake Sri Lankan Tamil for a form of Malayalam and if you speak real Sri Lankan Tamil using the proper accent they find it difficult to understand.
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SivaJothy / November 22, 2017
Silva, SJ, Fathima, and others,
You are right, this Brahmin RSSS aka Christian Pandi Kutti aka so many other troll names (Rohan, Nikhil, and so on) writes all kind of bull crap without giving any source reference. When someone challenge his concocted bull crap he will turn into a cry baby and start calling names such as ‘anti-Tamil’, ‘racist’ and so on as if he is not and then comes in a different name and bash others and praise himself. If you see above it is pretty obvious. RSSS writes, when someone challenge, he comes as Pandi Kutti for his rescue. This person is immatured and needs to grow up.
You can only laugh when you read his comments, for example, see below, he is calling the famous Grantha script/alphabet as a dialect and the Tulu dialect as script. He does not do even a basic research, simply writes whatever comes to his mind which he would have read somewhere long ago. You should not write things if you do not have proper evidence if someone challenge you.
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Pandi Kutti / November 22, 2017
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Rohan / November 22, 2017
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Rohan / November 22, 2017
SJ nee Silva nee Siva Joythi you gave the game away when you went on harping about Grantha Bhasha and Tulu script. Funny sad person. I Am not Siva and what if I was? What are you going to do? Complain to the police? You can do nothing. So stop crying If you behave and post the truth instead of picking on people, I will defend you too.
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Pandi Kutti / November 22, 2017
Siva Joythi yes I am Christian so what? You I suspect are SJ so is Silva still smarting. I can defend any ones post I like or agree with or any person here. This is my wish and not your concern There is no law against it. If you have a problem too bad
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Pandi Kutti / November 23, 2017
Silva/SivaJothy/SJ. My religion is immaterial in this debate. Yes I agree with RSS’s postings and views and not with yours and will defend him from your nasty comments. If you do not like it still Go to your mommy and cry. My personal opinion you are nasty and self opinionated and do not like anyone contradiction your views. You defend many nasty anti Tamils, as you agree with their views but we should not defend others with similar view to our? One rule for you and another for others? Moderator please allow this to be published, as I do have the right to answer to his aspersions against me.
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Kumar / November 21, 2017
SJ
What I wrote is what I read from several books that were published with quotes from reputed travelers and historians/anthropologists. I have no intention of offending/hurting any person or community.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 22, 2017
You can see from this original Malayalam movie from which all other movies in other Indian languages were made including the Tamil Chandramuki which was a big hit and in its own way a very good movie . This is set in Kerala in the 1700s and in some royal court and they make it authentic. The dancer or the royal courtesan sings in the language of Kerala, during than era . Tamil. Just like in the Tamil version the dancer sang in Telugu as the Naicker’s were ruling Tamil Nadu at that time
Original Malayalam version. The actress is Shobanna the niece of famous actress Padmini.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEDp6NW8NHc
later Tamil version which became a bigger hit in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEDp6NW8NHc.
A powerful Malyalam hardliner group is now erasing all the links and even editing the Wikepedia, just like many Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Muslim groups are doing , editing all connection to large Tamil contribution to their genetic make up and culture. Now if you read the Wikipedia a person will think a Sinhalese purely descended from Bengali and Sri Lankan Muslims from Arabs. At various forums others used to bring all these links regarding the original of Malayalam language to argue with Malayali hardliners and now we see one by one they are vanishing or edited. I am not anti Malyali I have first cousins who are Menons from the Ottapallam area in Kerala and can speak Malayalam quite well.
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Sinhala_Man / November 21, 2017
“THE TRUTH probably exists, and should be sacrosanct.” That sort of statement is wonderful for the absolute scholar. Please continue the debates, but really I cannot find the time to participate in depth on every subject under the sun.
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I’d be so happy, if, after respecting the need to be truthful, you come up with something that leads to emphasising what we have in common with each other.
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As a teenager I yearned for World Government. I’m more realistic now. Can you please aim at arriving at a position where we, on the island (I don’t mind what name you confer on it) affirm that we are (metaphorically, of course, but with full sincerity and commitment) call ourselves brothers and sisters.
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Pandi Kutti / November 19, 2017
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Peace Lover / November 18, 2017
Papara John you are in the disney land Buddy..come to Sri Lanka and …Go back to school ..to learn the Sri Lankan History..correct…BTW…Are you after Johny Walker ..You speak like
Bush : The butcher , he also said some fairy tale stories like you about WMD in Iraq..and…butchered millions of innocent children…..Are you from his geneology ?
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Tuan / November 18, 2017
Chritians enjoy when singhalese attack Muslims thinking that they are safe becos its not muslims.Today all poor singhalese are converted to christianity not islam
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Billy / November 18, 2017
? did u fucking read the article? [Edited out]
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Tamil from the north / November 19, 2017
John the dickhead, Muslims are living off the Sinhalese? hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
You have a rich dream. Its ok, keep dreaming.
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thrishu / November 18, 2017
You are still at it Amarasiri. No shame! Stop writing nonsense here. I quoted back from your own reference a few days ago, the proof of research by some far east based university researchers that Sinhala people do not have mixed blood from Indian ethinc groups. So, shooo…….. go away and stop telling lies here. May be telling lies is in your genes, you foreigner, you kallathoni.
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Amarasiri / November 19, 2017
From BBC news
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42038081
Riot police and army troops have been deployed in southern Sri Lanka following an outbreak of violence between Buddhists and Muslims, and a curfew has been imposed for the second night running.
Nineteen people were arrested when clashes erupted in Galle province, after a traffic accident.
Homes and businesses were attacked and several properties damaged.
Authorities say the sectarian violence has now been brought under control.
“Additional police battalions, the police Special Task Force, the anti-riot squad and the military were called in last night to bring the situation under control,” Law and Order Minister Sagala Ratnayaka said in a statement.
He also warned people not to stir up sectarian hatred on social media.
MP Manusha Nanyakkara told the BBC that 10 vehicles were destroyed, the majority of which were owned by Muslims, and 62 homes and businesses were attacked.
He said the 6pm-6am curfew was imposed as a security measure to prevent further violence.
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Rita / November 21, 2017
Why not we use decent language and post decent comments?
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Amarasiri / November 18, 2017
2,500 year-old Para civilization in the :Land of Native Veddah Aethho, illegally occupied by the Paras, and carrying out illegal riots called illegal Para-riots, and the Para-Law and order need to step in. They have been slack before.
Still many of the Para-Crooks and killers, called MaRa and cronies, are still; at large, and the UN HRC have been after them for the past 7 years, a nd expect thing to happen.
Best solution. Ship the Paras back to their homeland, India, Bharat, Damba-Diva, South India and other lands.
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John / November 18, 2017
Amarasiri, idiot,
you worry about your 7th century death cult. And there is nothing Para about the Sinhalese, they are the natives.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2017
Jonny Stupid Baby
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Of course they are the natives of South India.
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Amarasiri / November 18, 2017
Para-John, Appu, Para- Idiot
Test your DNA with the Indians from South India, Bihar, Bengal, Orissa and elsewhere, and find your Para-Homeland..
Reference: NJature
https://www.nature.com/articles/jhg2013112?WT.ec_id=JHG-201401
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Jonny / November 18, 2017
Who is this idiot Amarasiri. Looks like he does not know to differentiate his [Edited out] from his mouth. Spews shit every time he responds. CT should black list him.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2017
Jonny
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Do you remember to close your mouth when Amarasiri responds every time?
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Amarasiri / November 18, 2017
Para-John Appu,
Can you read? What is your IQ? Truth is a Process, and the Process shows that the Paras are occupying the Land of Native Veddah Aethho, illegally, and should get back home, to their Para-Homeland India, Baharat, India.
CT says, In Journalism Truth is a Process, and Amarasiri is the Truth.
For the Para-idiots, Mahawamsa lies and imaginatiions is the truth.
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Fathima / November 18, 2017
Srilanka is becoming another Western European country where attacks on Muslims is regular.
Disappointed with fellow Muslims that didn’t come for Gintota Muslims.
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palitha / November 18, 2017
Do not think in that way please. All are humans. Sinhala, Muslims are Languages, religions only. Humanity is first. At the start, Muslims have done wrong thing. There was a accident . As a result muslim boy injured. Muslims assaulted to driver. Did you agree to those muslims foolish actions. For that accident, Police ahs arrested the sinhala driver and produced to courts. So Law is right . But why did foolish Muslims hit to the driver ????????????????Please muslims develop your mind with out limit foolish beliefs.
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Fathima / November 18, 2017
So now you insult our beliefs as well?
What is wrong with you people? First you killed among youselves. Killed about 50,000 of your own kind in 1971 and 1989. Then you killed 100,000 Tamils. Now you are killing Muslims?
Who is at the centre of all killing, riots, war?
Lets see if you still have thinking capacity.
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Shenal / November 18, 2017
No need to insult. We rather pity you. You people will never see the light for an eternity. Hope you have got some good karma left.
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2017
Shenali
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When did you start talking to yourself?
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Thishan / November 18, 2017
Did you see we were killing 100000 Tamils ?
We killed LTTE terrorists, unfortunately they all were Tamils.
ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Al qaeda and other all Islamic terrorist groups have the same beliefs I think…
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SJ / November 19, 2017
Fatima
You are among contributors to anti-Muslim sentiments among Tamils.
First learn to separate right from wrong and judge not based on labels that you stick on communities.
One should rise against any form of racism against any target group. Otherwise one will leap from one opportunist alliance to another.
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Peace Lover / November 18, 2017
whenever there was an accident ,even in other areas the people have done the same thing…seen so many incidents like that in TV news…even though that is not correct. But that were never switched to communal violence …..Moreover, the Muslims did not attack any others, but those who are involved in this incident…I am not justifying their action. But instead of going after the perpetrators why our Sinhalese Brothers attacked the innocent Muslims and the Mosques ? Is it justifiable ?
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Rishard / November 18, 2017
If there is a “kanthuri” free food, or Dr. Zakir Naik’s racist speech organized in Gintota, you will see your fellow Muslims rushing there even after the event ends.
Now they see some bloods, now it is, “if you get caught, I don’t know you” mode.
Why are you trying to escalate the violence? LOL
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singing fish / November 18, 2017
In the western europe,there are no attacks on muslims on a regular basis,instead muslims only attack innocent christians. Did you forget about the numerous attacks by muslims in the name of allah in barcelona,london bridge etc? Why are you lying?The main reason for all these problems is the teaching in the koran which advocates muslims to kill the infidels. As far as i am concerned, infidels are those who believe in the false god.Allah is a false god.
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SJ / November 21, 2017
F,
What did fellow Muslims do in Europe?
The Left and liberals took an interest and mobilized opinion.
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Kyle pattaborulowski / November 18, 2017
I love this page soo much.i mean look at the names of everybody, it’s not made up at all. This should be the only webpage in the world that lets anyone to respond to any comment.What sort of webpage is this? Serously fuck you asshats.
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Ben Hurling / November 18, 2017
Anti-Muslim feeling in SL is at fever-pitch. It is the new powder keg. We reap what we sow. I notice this sad reality over many discussions everywhere I go in SL. Fear of Islamisation of Sri Lanka has grabbed us from our balls. Sri Lanka is not alone in being Islamophobic. It is everywhere. All over Europe, Australia & the US. Time has come to talk about underlying issues openly & freely. Nothing should be off-limits or too sensitive to talk about in a civil manner. In the meantime, full force of law must be brought to bear on all racists and religious fanatics, who run amok. Reaction by law enforcement must be just, swift and severe, whether Sinhalese, Muslim or Tamil. Otherwise, we can look forward to decades of blood-bath. ALL OVER AGAIN!.
PS: ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap’.
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JohnSivas / November 18, 2017
During every communal riot in Sri Lanka, police and armed forces stand by and do nothing. Infact they are often on location to protect Sinhala rioters. A wealthy man named Subbiah Devar was killed in Nuwara Eliya during the 1983 riots by the army. His house was originally attacked by a mob, but when he pulled his gun out they ran away. Only to come back with soldiers later who murdered him, his family and destroyed his house. Even during Aluthgama riots in 2014, police officers and army men were seen on the scene but not doing anything to stop the violence.
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ken Robert / November 18, 2017
Sinhala_Man
“We should have system of law enforcement”. You are right; The law enforcement sworn not to protect the innocent,powerless and the helpless. Why do you say we should, we must have a just system now!
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Rita / November 21, 2017
That is my worry too? Why can’t we formulate some mechanism to prevent such incidents?
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Wipula / November 18, 2017
I was a resident of Gintota and a past pupil of Gintota Maha Vidyalaya..Many Muslim students were in my class and we were friends. I can remember that we played together and never thought that we belonged to two ethnic groups. I can remember that whenever large Pinkams were held and dramas were played by the youth at Thuparama Viharaya and Gangathilaka Viharaya, they helped them very much. We lived as members of one family. We went to their houses and they came to our houses. So I urgently appeal to relations and friends in my village not to turn that beautiful village into a blood bath. Please be calm and patient and treat all as human beings.
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Chitra / November 18, 2017
It is good to know that decent people like you can understand the situation, having lived alongside with the Muslims, and speaking out against this violence. If only the racist thugs can be as intelligent as you are. Many of us grew up in mixed communities, played with each other as children, and there was no difference in our minds. It is a shame that the poison spread by those pretending to be following the teachings of Lord Buddha, have seeped into ignorant minds. If what this article says is accurate, it seems a minor accident has turned into a racist assault on Muslims playing outside. That goon should not have been let out of jail, and the situation might have not escalated. Minorities are not safe in this country anymore, and the bullying tactics of some racist thugs, can happen at any time. This small island has no room for thugs and racists. We have gone through too much of suffering, and cannot go through more.
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Wipula / November 18, 2017
Thank you very much for the comment Wipula
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2017
Wipula
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Are you thanking you for your own comment?
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amila / November 18, 2017
IQ..
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Wipula / November 18, 2017
Thank you for the comment
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Rishard / November 18, 2017
Change is the only thing that is constant. It can be for the good or the bad. Learn lessons at every change and try to make next change is for the good of all human being.
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Burt / November 18, 2017
“What sort of a country are we becoming?”
Arnt we already there? This is a Sinhala Baudha Country.
If someone attacks a small temple or a skinhead you will see how fast the law is enforced.
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CX / November 18, 2017
I think you are butthurt idiot.
Yes the majority Sinhala Buddhists rule as they own the country, but compared to ME its a lot better. Should this sort of thing happened in the Middle East there would be hundreds of the minority in prison and none of the majority.
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2017
CX
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“but compared to ME its lot better”
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Why not compare it to Scandinavian countries or Singapore?
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Burt / November 21, 2017
Poor guy does not have the opportunity to experience the civilized world. Most probably doing a minor job in the ME.
Karma is a bitch.
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Chitra / November 18, 2017
The filth that permeates in Myanmar, seems to be seeping into our nation too. Of course, there was always these anti Muslim campaigns, led by thugs in saffron robes, making hate speeches, spreading false rumors intended to frighten ignorant people, so that they will turn against their fellow Sri Lankans who happen to be the minority, but time and time again people have requested the past and present regimes, to nip this in the bud, condemn this behavior, and have harsh punishments for those indulging in hate crimes, but it seems they are afraid to do so.
Perhaps the majority in this country have short memories, and have forgotten that the last ethnic war lasted decades, cost many lives, and people afraid to travel and use public transport. When is the leadership going to step in and tell the people statistically 9 percent of any people cannot take over a country where the majority are 70 percent Buddhist. Innocent people are being assaulted, and as always the victims of mob violence.
Once again, we have to wonder who is behind this ugly racist campaign, and if the government does not resolve this now, there will be serious consequences.
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Chitra / November 18, 2017
How can the minority live without fear, when mobs take the upper hand, and start assaulting them, at the slightest excuse? It is time the people in the country were told that all Sri Lankans belong here, and that there is no other place for the minority, but here, where generations have lived. All ethnic groups have lived here for centuries, and they have all contributed and helped this country progress. The arrogance that comes in being the majority, leads to that attitude of being entitled to this country, and treating the minority like transgressors. This is wrong, and since there seems to be no hope for the brainwashed adults, perhaps this should be taught from Grade 1, if we do not want ethnic wars, and want unity, so that this country can progress and survive.
Throw the trouble makers from any ethnic group into jail, and make it a precedence, so that these idiots will think twice before becoming violent against innocent people.
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CX / November 18, 2017
You shouldn’t concern yourself about this. Anti-Muslim attacks happen all over the old and the common denominator is always the religion of Islam. This riot has nothing to do with Sri Lankans or the Singhalese. It’s the way Muslim communities are set up in around the world.
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Jayantha / November 19, 2017
If you want to see how minority live without fear and majority with fear look what is going on in France U.K. Belgium. Seems like you are a another liberal ass. Protecting majority rights not racism.
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Singhalese pundit / November 18, 2017
Unfortune incident like this should not happened in Sri Lanka at all. .you can not generalise this. Many good people among sinahalse do not like even to kill insect what about human beings .
Please isolate all radical from all groups and all community
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Rajash / November 18, 2017
Singhalese Pundit…..the many good people among Sinhalese are keeping quiet and sending a message that they condone these attacks. It’s high time the so called “good people” take to the streets and start challeniging the thugs in saffron robes
ps – CT has turned off spell check and I dont have the time to re type.
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paul / November 18, 2017
Yes, I can remember all those Tamils protesting at the LTTE massacres of Sinhalese villagers, can’t you?
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2017
Paul
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When did the state security forces allow anyone to protest against fascists? Instead the security forces, president and prime minister were colluding with the very LTTE you wanted the Tamils to protest against.
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Are you being serious?
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paul / November 20, 2017
How many Tamils are in the diaspora? Did one protest?
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K.Pillai / November 20, 2017
Paul
TGTE wrote to UN following the Aluthgama pogrom against Muslims.
How come you never wondered as to why the Sinhalese and Lankan Muslim diaspora were (and still are) silent.
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paul / November 21, 2017
KPillai, we are talking about Tamil protests against the slaughter of innocent Sinhalese, not protests about Muslims. I do not know of any Tamil protest.
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Rohan / November 18, 2017
Oh really don’t make me laugh. Never killed an insect, chased the Burghers away and were killing and ethnically cleansing Tamils in their hundreds of thousands. Made one million of them stateless and forcibly deported to India ,another million were chased largely to the west and over 300000 killed. Even one of your former president came on the state TV and openly stated if I kill and starve Tamils , the Sinhalese will be happy. Now you have started on the Muslims. Next the Sinhalese Christians?
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sach / November 18, 2017
yes, we sinhalese do not agree and fully against the colonial sponsored demographic engineering plan in SL. We do not like the fact the Brits and other whites brought people from India and settled in our homeland for their own political agendas….Does that make us bad? Well…..we really dont care…
I think these Muslims should be allowed to vacate their homes among evil sinhalese and let them live among Tamils in north……….that would be nice
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paul / November 18, 2017
300000 killed? I heard it was 30m.
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2017
Paul
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1971 ……………… 18,000
1987-90………….130,000
30 years ………..152,000
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Total 300,000
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Please confirm
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sach / November 18, 2017
LOL …..it was the Muslims who had started this and Sinhalese have simply returned in the same langauge
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paul / November 18, 2017
They keep saying that Muslims are just Tamils converted to Islam, but they don’t want their Tamil brothers in Jaffna. As for the million ‘stateless’ Tamils they scream about, they wouldn’t share a glass of water with them. These ‘Muslim’ and ‘Stateless’ Tamils are only useful to further the Eelam agenda.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 19, 2017
They did not make them stateless or discriminate them. Eelam Tamils and Indian origin Tamils live in different parts of the country and hardly meet each other. It was the Sinhalese racists and establishment that made them stateless and discriminate them. Eg burn loot kill and destroy what little property they have. If the northern Muslims did not spy for the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Muslim home guards in the east ethnically cleans the eastern Tamils , LTTE would not have chased them. Prior to these incidents the Muslims of the north were considered part of the northern Tamils and treated as such. The eastern Muslims still follow the eastern Tamil Matriarchal Mukkuval customs and laws and the Kudi system and like the eastern Tamils name their children after their mother’s Kudi. When ever danger came to the Tamil Muslims it was the Eelam Tamils who gave them refuge. When they fled India due to Hindu persecution , they were settled in the north west Tamil coast in the former Jaffna Kingdom. When they fled from there due to persecution from the Portuguese, the Sinhalese did not want them and the eastern Tamils gave them refuge. Do not twist history for you Sinhalese Buddhist agenda
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2017
Paul
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There are no more stateless Tamils in this island. Hindian made sure it is so. They caught JR by his b***s and forced him to grant citizenship to all those hard working stateless upcountry Tamils. You need to update your knowledge of the island history urgently as you seem 30 years behind.
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It is true Muslims were chased out from the North however Sinhala/Buddhist fascist seems to have packed more than 3 million out of the country in the past 60 years. They seem to employ an efficient mechanism forcibly deporting people.
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paul / November 20, 2017
Native, the stateless Tamil problem was solved by Mrs B & Indira Gandhi long before JR.
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Native Vedda / November 21, 2017
Paul
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It was JR who made it possible for almost 600,000 upcountry hardworking stateless Tamils to obtain Sri Lankan citizenship. Ranil granted citizenship to the residual stateless people numbering about 55,000 in 2002/2003.
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Please check your facts if you want to challenge my facts and figures.
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wasantha / November 18, 2017
sri lanka is sihaleese motherland.. muslim people came from arab or other area. they are still using tamil language . lot of sinhalese and muslims living together . but some of muslim activities most sinhalese people getting hopeless about muslims. its not only sri lanka.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sharma / November 18, 2017
Sri Lanka is not a Sinhalese only land , large portions of it was Tamil land that was ruled by Tamil kings and chiefs. The so called Sinhalese kings especially the last few who ruled Kandy and Kotte were Tamil. Half the signatures in the Kandyan convention is in Tamil. More than half the present day Sinhalese population both low and high born , are descended from recent immigrants from the Tamil county in India. Sinhalese language has a 40% Tamil based vocabulary and its grammar syntax and lexicon is 100% Tamil . This is because the native language Elu was semi Tamil Dravidian dialect. What if the Muslim speak Tamil and are descended from a very small amount of Arabs and a very large amount of Indian Tamils and speak Tamil? So are most of the modern Sinhalese. Descended from large amount of Indian Tamils. Please do not post nonsense. They do not deserve this. This is what we Tamils experienced and everyone kept quiet then and in the end it resulted in a 30 year war
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sach / November 18, 2017
Get a history book and read………cant we arrange a debate on this via CT?
Sinhala is the only civilisation that shaped SL. There is a reason why Tamils in SL have NOTHING as a civilisation achievement. They speak the neighbours lannguage, religion, customs, cultural events because they came from neighbourhood very recently….
Having tamil origin or Tamil related kings is not having Tamil kings. Does that mean the queen and king of England is German due to their origins? And England by extension a German country? LOL
The Tamil nationalists in SL SUFFER from a huge inferiority complex as a result of this LACK of or NON EXISTENCE of any tamil civilisation here…….
There are tamil mps in Canada, does that mean canada is a Tamil country?
Sinhala has tamil origin words because unfortunately we lived next to you. The worst thing and the MOST unfortunate thing happened to Sinhalese who are happy go lucky and carefree people naturally is to live next to an egoistic and extremely tribal, racist Tamils. So we had to face multiple Tamil incursions and being good Buddhists those stupid sinhalese did not finish those enemies…And the problem has continued. This is our story! ……
So now we are two people who are unhappy to live together bound only because of this beautiful island. Yes Indian tamils speak tamil and Britz and other colonials brought them….we tooo do not like that.
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Kumar / November 18, 2017
Sach,
Which history book are you talking about?
What is this Sinhala Civilization you are talking about? Other than the Sinhala language that was developed in Sri Lanka by the Old Dravidian tribes after they got converted to Buddhism by the Indian King Asoka who gave them the Prakrit/Pali language to speak, religion and culture to practice, Brahmi script to write, technology to build Buddhist structures, and an Indian Lion symbol to your flag, you think you people have developed a civilization? Everything you do and follow are from either North or South India. Tell me one thing that the Sinhalese have which is not borrowed or copied from others? At least one thing? I am challenging you. I can explain/show you in detail every single thing that you call Sinhala is NOT Sinhala. Let’s have a debate.
I know you very well, half way you will run away with the tail between your legs leaving your amude and then reappear again in a new thread with the same old questions pretending to know nothing about the previous argument.
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sach / November 18, 2017
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2017
wasantha
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“sri lanka is sinhalese motherland.”
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Who says so? Could you name the kallathonie stupid convert from South India who believes this is Sinhalese motherland.
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justice / November 18, 2017
In every racial and religious community, there are extremists who on slightest provocation, blow up any incident into a racial/religious one.
This accident has been thus magnified, it seems.
Tolerance dos not appear to be virtue of the average Lankan.
Intolerance has led to insurrections and wars.
This is there even among religious personnel.
When will we learn.
See how some other nations invite/allow immigrants, tolerate their views and even give legal protection to them, & allow financial,social, health, housing, educational, employment and other benefits on par with their own citizens.
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Rajash / November 18, 2017
attack on Gintota …..I wonder if the Sinhala moadyas thought the muslims were hoarding Gin and Tonic in Gintota. and wanted all of it for themselves. I am sure the muslim brothers would have shared it as the muslism have a big hear when it comes to shring thie muslim biryaani
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Mallaiyuran / November 18, 2017
Old King left the parliament without replying to Sampanthar. He has to have get the written by GLP or so others. In addition that he would like to have replied to Sampanthar in Kind, like this way. By blaming the Secret Solution is trying to split the country geographically, they are physically and mentally dividing the country.
Sampanthar made few points this time. Old King was defeated twice. He lost the bid for the EP and PM. SLFP won the EP. UNP won the PM. The Hero criminal, Old King got nothing. He is rejected by Sinhalese, including the so called Sinhala Buddhist. He too put forward constitutional change like Yahapalanaya in the election campaign. Even though bot section contested on the same theme, Old Royals was the one got rejected. But people rejected him. People rejected him with single mind. They said to his their decision is final. Now he is fanning anti-minority flames to come back. Sampanthar told him “don’t be a cheap one like, think of the time your father left UNP with SWRD. If you have shame, that is a way to teach UNP and SLFP a lesson. Be a man with minimum class.”
It is these guys fanned on the Secret Solution brought this turmoil. Dinesh even said army will rebel against Yahapalanaya. It is not Joint Comedies alone doing this. But Sampanthar did not point his finger on them. The Muslim leadership is fanning in East that “if the Secret Solution see light, BLOOD RIVER WILL FLOW”. Their properties are protected by police and army. That is how the dirty Muslim politicians fanning in the East to match with Southern counterparts. Further Sampanthar did not tell UNP, who tore off and set fire to Chandrika’s initiation, very strongly campaigning for “No Hero get investigated”, but not ready to utter word for devolving the power.
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shankar / November 18, 2017
have they rearrested the chap who was given bail.This time his bail should be cancelled indefinitely until he is tried,convicted and sentenced.The magistrates must ensure safety of the community when granting bail in future.In this case the magistrate may be pardoned for giving it because he may have not been able to foresee the events to follow,but the next time he is given bail the magistrate should be sacked.Everything depends a lot on the justice system.Police do their duty,courts must do theirs.
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Coolio / November 18, 2017
Theravadha patriotic buddism in action yet again! The animal like behavior of the sinhalese does not even surprise me at this point. And they do have a point when they claim to be the offspring of a certain African animal, clearly bieng civilized is not for the offspring of animals. Relax folks, the police have been quick to arrest all the muslim boys that were defending themselves against the attack while the perpetrators of the assault are roaming free under the protection of monks, claiming the sinhalese goons are ‘jathika weerayos’. I bet the next war this country is going to face isn’t too far off with Muslims, Tamils & Christians joining hands to teach these patriots a lesson that’ll go down in the history books of this country. The Sinhalaya has only Myanmar a dirt poor country. The combined support of the Christian/Muslim worlds and Tamil Nadu will see these patriots cower under their mothers skirts very soon.
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paul / November 18, 2017
Coolio I’m impressed with your racism. You give Tamils a bad reputation.
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Brainlessbuggers / November 18, 2017
The law should be above everyone. discrimination is one of the main reasons for these issues.
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kus fernando / November 18, 2017
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Rafeek / November 18, 2017
Until we adopt a streamlined national policy for this country to work and walk towards our developmental goals petty issues such as gingtota etc will arise ,with our minds, wisdom and vigilance that we can rectify this disgusting racism forcibl acts to put that effort to create, innovative and to produce using our ethnic diversity as a tool for developing this country so that how it looks like when a man made problem can transform to mind driven opportunity (ex- Singapore a multinational country has lead a best example, if they have adopted policies like us it would have been same living standards as srilanka unfortunately not) so mind set is everything rest is garbage, time wasters, problem shops and talk shops,
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rbh / November 18, 2017
Mr. Jonny
The inquiry is under way every body is trying to defuse the situation
and pointing fingers of toxic images.
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rbh / November 18, 2017
Mr. Jonny
The inquiry is under way every body is trying to defuse the situation he is
pointing fingers of toxic images.
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Arrow / November 18, 2017
Am i the only one who now has the picture that the sinhalese are a race of dirty & small minded people? They always burn shops and religious places out of jealousy and are funded by the sinhala buddists business community. Their business principal appears to be ‘if you can’t beat em burn em’. The best way to defeat this in my opinion is to boycott sinhala buddist businesses and cut off their funding. If they can’t compete in a decent and fair manner they don’t deserve your money! These are race of a evil human beings who cannot even argue without using filthy low class language. Absolutely disgusted!
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paul / November 18, 2017
Your words show you are the worst kind of racist yourself.
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sach / November 18, 2017
yes we are race of dirty ad small minded people…my problem is why do Tamils and Muslims always come and live among those dirty minded people? We dont see Sinhalese going to live among Tamils and Tamils block Muslims from returning to North….everytime a place become dominated by Muslims everyone else leave voluntarily. I cant understand why every cosmopolitan” multi cultural and liberal place on this island always is in the middle of a sinhala dominated place……I cant understand why Tamils and Muslims move into Sinhala neighbourhood when we are such small minded people….
I think the best thing to do is friendly and very welcoming community like Muslims should leave the evil Sinhalese and go to live among Tamils in North
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Jayantha / November 18, 2017
all these dumb fucking just waiting to get there stupid head by Muslims One day. Just see what happening in Europe ,They are talking to convert Buckingham palace to mosque. Do you have any guarantee that its not happening in Sri Lanka, when you look at what it is happening .Fucked up Muslims wants to conquer the world. Everything happening as they planed to increase there population to 50%.after that fucking Alla blessed you liberal fuckers.
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Sinhale / November 18, 2017
Some monk had posted pictures of the Muslim homes that were attacked, on Facebook, claiming those were Sinhala Buddist houses attacked by Muslims. Reason? To get more people to join in and attack the minority community in the area. If the monks are this deceptive what can you say about the laymen? Who knows what sort of radical sermons these freebies are spreading at temples? All temples must be subject to checks by the national intelligence because this is where Sinhala Buddist terrorism gave birth back in 2012. While pointing fingers at mosques, churches & kovils these filthy rats in saffron robes have been doing exactly that i.e preaching radical sermons. The LTTE were smart enough to known this, that is why they slaughtered monks like dogs whenever they could get their hands on one, and by the looks of it Prabhakaran seems to look less and less of a terrorist and more of a man who did the right thing by putting the fear of god in the hearts of these gutter rats.
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Patriotic Citizen / November 18, 2017
WHY THE HELL YOU IDIOT OF A INHUMAN………Adding Fire To The Grass POSING from the SINHALE name………….Disgusting as well damned shame to hear of people like you living on earth………….extremists are creating riots and also campaigning promotions
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bandula jayawickreme / November 18, 2017
It would be prudent if CT exercises restraint by toning down the language of the comments.
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Errol De Pinto / November 18, 2017
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Lahiru / November 18, 2017
At the start, There was a accident unexpectedly, Muslim boy was injured. What are some Muslim youth did is ,assaulted to vehicle owner. Police has done the law. Vehicle driver was arrested and remand . But why did Muslims assault that vehicle driver ??????? So That is Muslims foolish actions. Some Muslims are ignorent, foolish Muslims, their mind is not progressive due to their blind beliefs.
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Sri Lankan / November 18, 2017
Let us all take a deep breath and think who could have created this issue. If an outside gang came to attack the mosque then we all know which group in the South would have instigated this group, no doubt its JO and Rajapakse gang. They are trying every thing under the sun to save their necks from the law. Its time President and PM deliver what was promised to us. If no action is taken against all the rogues by end of January then the PM and President should give up their posts let some back benchers take the torch.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2017
Sri Lankan
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This is an incidental part of Sri Lankan history perhaps since 1915. We do not need of the reasons as to how this sparked.
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Look for the persons who create and sustain the environment which motivates the thugs to commit what they had committed. The thugs are only incidental part of the larger hate crime.
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You better ask yourself a question, who created the environment how many of the thugs have been identified and sent to prison?
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Why the security forces find themselves impotent when they see saffron clad thugs are involved in the actual hate campaign and actual act of violence?
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Why do you elect your MPs?
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Ariya rathna / November 18, 2017
I work in Middle East, when I see the news that Sinhala Buddhist attacking Muslim minority in Sri Lanka for a minor incident /accident; I feel very ashamed to show me as a Buddhist. Now a days, when a news come, all these Arab Muslim employers are asking Sri Lankan Sinhales immediately that why you people are killing Muslim? We have no words to explain them. I work in Middle East last 15 years. Not only me, There are 1.8 million Sri Lankan Singhalese working to Arab Muslim in Middle East countries. So far these Arab Muslims were trusting Sri Lankan Singhalese as good people believing that we live with Muslims in good harmony, now they see us in suspicions. The Sri Lankan government and all Buddhist should think of all issues globally. Sri Lankan Economy is growing by the support of global Muslims. From where Sri Lanka is getting its major income to run the country? From Muslims employers in Middle East only!!!! Not from China, Burma, UK, Pothubala sena, etc.
We have to control all these thugs group who destabilise ethnic harmony and we try to make a country of peace. The ideal example is Singapore. How this country got developed. People from all community enjoy life there!! Remember Singhpore presendent is Ms. Halimah Yacob – she is minority Muslim women.
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Ruwan / November 18, 2017
Well Mr Ariya Rathna, there is a perfect answer for you to give back to your employers.
Why don’t you ask Saudi Arab’s involvement in Yemen and ask what happens there?
When you mention Ginthota to them, if you could kindly remind your Employers what happened in Kaththankudi by your beloved so-called and liberation fighters, it would give them a clearer picture.
It was not that long ago, only 27 years ago when over 150 Muslims were massacred inside a mosque.
It is party time for CT readers today, enjoy hating Sinhalese.
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sach / November 18, 2017
Ask them why they kill Muslims in Yemen
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Jayantha / November 19, 2017
didn’t you feel ashamed when ISIS cut innocent Christin’s
.then convert to a Muslimes.didnt you get ashamed when they clear up shiga raja? idiot. head every where
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aiya / November 18, 2017
Colombo Telegraph seems to be a very big trouble maker. Why ! publish these articles and cause more trouble between the readers. These CT buggers reside in comfort most probably in Canada and then add more fuel to the fire to fan the flames of communal hatred.
To the CT staff remember one day the long hand of justice will catch up with you for all the bloody shit you buggers throw on others.
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Diogenes / November 18, 2017
Mr.Aiya, are you sure you have entered your name correctly? I think it should begin with the letter `P`!
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Al-Rahman / November 18, 2017
Sirisena and Ranil have said that if the law enforcement forces do not
take action to stop attacks on the minority the govt. cannot do anything and the govt.
is not responsible for these racal riots. This is what happened to more than 20
indcidents of attacks on minorities happened in 2017.
But they are confused becaused of the forthcoming local polls. Can they win without
Muslim votes.
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P. De .Silva- Canada / November 18, 2017
Sad to see, their is some comments that who have been sent to the media to publish are a sinhalese , just because their comments so anger with the sinhala nation by mentioning to go back to north Indian areas . By all means those who write comments like that are not seems to be real sinhalese. Anyways though I live here for my personal reasons, l’am an strong sinhalese buddhist from beyond benthera bridge (Ahungalla). By being a sinhalese doesn’t mean to fight , harass or to discriminate other minority religions and nationals , they all are Sri Lankan’s as sinhalese. They also lives like us in this country, we all shares happiness , sorrowfulness and other circumstances , so why we fight and to kill each other like we are going to live forever by grabbing and holding everything . Be conscious, all these things happening because of politics and ruthless greediness of this corrupt politicians , otherwise there’s no problems in this Island nation, we live happily our childhood days . I hope and wish to be like the past one country , one happy nation under one flag to be proud to the world as Sri Lankan’s. Aubohowewa, Mananakkam, Asalawwalekum.
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SJ / November 19, 2017
P de S
Thank you for the sober remark.
But the problem is not with the politicians alone. They represent our weaknesses more than our strengths.
There is need for members of each community to give some thought to what effect that whatever one says and does has on others and ultimately on themselves.
The kind of racist abuse exchanged in the electronic media also it a contributory factor towards prejudices and their consequences
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Mallaiyuran / November 19, 2017
Yes SJ,
You are right in your deep-well (frog) views, as you are struggling to get out of your quips and trying to form an opinion. Before 1948, I mean in 1915 that is even before 1933, the electronic history website Jaffnahistory.com was not invented. There was no Facebook. TV was not yet made to media. There were hardly any Radios. Even the printed media was very underdeveloped in Lankawe. Nobody was there to advise CT to cut the comments of their opponents below 300 words. But the first ever religious riots of Lankawe broke out broadcasting Sir Pon. Ramanathan’s speech in London parliament at Kandy Perahera. You see, there it happens and you cannot stop by quipping.
Yes, you are different and cannot be blamed, but the entire fascist world believes if the mouths of the mass can be shut, they will be free to rule the world. You are only a Modaya sit on the branch and cut it at the tree side. Sagala and you may blame the social media for this, but CT printed a news item of how Sahala’s boss New King’s media is working to undress Ravi. (Sorry I am not Ravi’s lawyer). But a poor child like you have not gone to school, never had a chance to know where the electronic media was invented is where the freedom of opinion (speech) also exists. It is where the electronic media is used to spread harmony, unless the SLFP rulers who nationalized the Lake House and used to their anti –Tamil propaganda. That is where the forward thinking also, in addition to inventions, comes from. You stay in the well you feel comfortable, praising Sirimavo for unifying races and blaming Ranil for dividing.
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SJ / November 21, 2017
Mallungs
To plead for responsibility in comments is not to demand censorship.
You know better than I do about who cut the branch stupidly and let the Tamils fall off the tree into the waters of Mallumvaikkal.
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K.Pillai / November 18, 2017
A small incident ends up in rioting. The parlous mindset was created by politicians for politicians.
The situation was brought under control by an unknown entity called police action! Had this secret unknown entity been used in 2014Alutgama, would the carnage been avoided?
Where the hell is the army?
In N&E the army is right now looking for something called AAVA.
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