By C.V. Wigneswaran –
C.V Wigneswaran
70 years since February 4th 1948. We Tamil speaking People were told that we had obtained Independence from the Britishers in 1948 and we looked forward to the creation of a happy, contented, prosperous Country free of foreign domination. Mr.Lee Kwan Yue of Singapore had pointed to the then Ceylon as his role model for economic prosperity and communal harmony.
Little did we realize that the Sinhalese political leaders had other ideas. They, as the majority community, had taken full control over all State power and authority from the Britishers and started to harass the minorities under the pretext that they had been discriminated by the Britishers. This was not true. Britishers always gave preference to merit and in open competition the Tamil speaking did well to hold many Government Jobs and other jobs. But discriminatory laws were brought to weaken the Tamil community in every way. After the passing of the Sinhala Only Act there was no doubt that the Tamils had fallen from the frying pan to the fire. Their existence from pre historic times in the North and East of Sri Lanka and their ancient Classical language were overlooked and the language of the majority was made the sole State and Official Language. Many a discriminatory Law was passed and well planned pogroms and riots were effected to evict Tamils from their places of residence in the seven provinces south of the North and East.
It became obvious that Tamils had lost their freedom to the Sinhalese in this process. Still the Armed Forces are occupying the North and East as if we are under siege. The Centre controls all activities political, social and economic in the North and East. It is patent that the State is interested in decreasing the number of Tamils in the North and East and increasing the presence of the majority Community there.
Hence we feel the celebration of Independence from the Britishers has lost its significance due to our coming under the domination and hegemony of the Sinhalese. Until we obtain real devolution of power under a Federal Constitution we cannot retrieve our lost rights in full. Hence how could you expect us as Tamils to celebrate the Fourth of February? I have not discussed this with my Co-Chairmen. But I am sure they will endorse what I say because all of us Tamils feel cheated and let down.
*Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, Co-Chairman, TPC and the Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council
Rohan / February 5, 2018
Well Said you are 100% correct
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Sinhala_Man / February 5, 2018
Dear Rohan & Wiggie,
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I think that you could help us all by counting your blessings instead of being eternal grumblers. I, too, could grumble about my lot in life – e.g. I’ve never been outside Asia, although I’m a bit of an English Scholar.
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I’m now in my seventieth year. Let us prepare to leave behind a better country for our progeny.
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Wiggie, I read your article about Devanam PiyaTissa and made many favourable comments. I thought that you had made many valid points, and I’m personally convinced that my genetic make up is almost entirely South Indian. I want you to live happily in this land of ours, and for the sake of THE WORLD, of which I have seen so little, ensure that our human population doesn’t expand any more.
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I had a wonderful outing to the Uda Walawe National Park just four days ago; watched how effortlessly two elephants (don’t know their sex), brought down a beli tree, and proceeded to strip its bark, which they seem to eat, and abandon the tree after eating only half the leaves. Would they have returned the following day for the rest, or are they prodigal?
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Another young tusker came straight for us, tried to grab hold of a travel bag from which the smell of food may have emanated. My mechanic cum guide, Upali managed to snatch the bag away, but since the elephant managed to get a packet of sandwiches he was content to take it a few yards away, and SEEMED to be discarding most of the polythene, but I felt that it swallowed a packet of tomato sauce with the plastic. Will it harm the poor jumbo.
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We were, ourselves, in some danger; Upali commented that if it came to a choice, a human life is worth more than that of an elephant. I disagree.
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Please, Wiggie, even at this stage, learn to be a bit more philosophical.
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Ajith / February 5, 2018
Dear Sinhala-Man,
Tamils made sufficient tolerant over the seven decades. It is the Sinhala leadership played opportunistic game time and time again which resulted violence, discussions, agreements and cheating. I am sure you are aware of political opportunism played by Sinhalese leaders and you still find the same game played even at this juncture. You plea should go to the Sinhala leadership to stop the political game using Tamils and take forward the country towards a better place for all.
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sach / February 5, 2018
Really? 30 years of LTTE terrorism, racist politics by Tamil politicians….
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Sinhala_Man / February 5, 2018
Dear Ajith,
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This is unending talk. Yes, I do demand of Sinhalese politicians that they give up racism. I’ve been doing that with the guys who’ve been asking for my vote. I’ve told the Mahinda Rajapaksa guys very clearly that there’s no way that I could possibly vote for them.
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I comment quite a bit on Colombo Telegraph. I also regularly reveal my identity. Most regular readers know my name; have seen my photograph. I try not to reform “your” Tamil leaders. Selecting them is your business, so is disciplining them.
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So, could you please ask your guys not to provoke the people in the South. It will be difficult for anybody to provoke me, since I flatter myself that I’m guided by certain principles.
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I would like to see you responding to this position of mine.
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Ajith / February 5, 2018
Dear Sinhala_Man,
Can you explain what do you mean by “provoke the people in the South?
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Sinhala_Man / February 5, 2018
Dear Ajith,
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Our once idyllic country has become a difficult one for us to live in. This is because of the foolish things that we have done. I have no problem admitting that much of it is the fault of us Sinhalese. Let me not take the easy way out and put the blame entirely on our politicians. After all, we, collectively, chose them.
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There is little purpose in my claiming that I played no part in selecting them.
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People like me have a difficult time making ends meet. We, too, suffer injustice. Not at the hands of Tamils, may be. We’ve got to get together and solve the problems that confront us.
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Your eternal request for special compassion doesn’t help. Even I find them irritating. Please try to be more constructive. I never see you coming half-way to meet me. You do so only under duress – and we don’t want that, do we?
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Sinhala_Man / February 5, 2018
By the way, please see the comments at the bottom of the article by Shyamon Jayasinghe on 28th Jan 2018, on “Uva Chief’s Bail-out ceremony”.
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I’ve posted, just today, what I know of that sordid man.
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Justice & Fairplay / February 6, 2018
Well said Sinhala Man, whoever you are! An Educated Sinhala Man!
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sach / February 8, 2018
LOL
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Unreal / February 5, 2018
Dear Sinhala_Man, Your very first sentence is an unfair comment. I would urge you to desist from comparing apples and oranges. (My comment is against your 1st para; the rest is out of context.)
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Sinhala_Man / February 5, 2018
Dear Friend Unreal,
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We’ve exchanged comments before, and I think that we like each other. I can’t aim at being profound all the time.
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Excuse my saying things out of context.
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You always talk sense, “Unreal”. I’d like to have a response from Ajith.
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K.Anaga / February 7, 2018
The love you seem to show for the animals- which is appreciable.But that love is not extended to the Tamils, I have said earlier somewhere that Srilanka (Ceylon) had two sets of beautiful Eyes at the Time of gaining independence i.e the Sinhala and Tamil eyes. but the Sinhalese politicians have Induced Cataract on the Tamil Eyes thus the Good vision of Srilanka is lost . An operation may be the answer?
There are no blessings to be counted by the Tamils. There are plenty to the Sinhalese but they still want to steal?
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Babansincho / February 5, 2018
why is that ?
Are tamils not srilankens ?
The independence of srilankens that celebrates on the 4 th is about the freedom taken from colonial masters. Right ?
So why this estranged this man, who lived and enjoyed his life until recently, being part of colombo community to raise the kind of silly question ?
He makes efforts to create new ethinic divisions, as if we have no enough of them.
I always feel this man s post for him is like a square peg ina round hole.
Dont tamil brothers have proper leaders to represent them ?
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Uthungan / February 6, 2018
Babansincho
“Are Tamils not Sri Lankan’s?”
That is for people like you to decide in the context of the foremost place given to the type of Buddhism you follow
that discriminates not only Tamils but others who follow other faiths too.
.But as for those who elected the man you refer to, he fits the square hole fits perfectly because he is square in all aspects as far as they are concerned.
If you have a problem with that,then you can shove it up in the round hole of your butt.
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Shenal / February 6, 2018
Uthungan,
If Tamils are not willing to sacrifice Tamilness to become Sri Lankans then they should go to Tamilnadu. There are no place in Sri Lanka for dead weights.
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Uthungan / February 6, 2018
Shenal
Tamils are Lankans but they prefer to not carry the deadweight Sri tag that automobiles were required to carry from 1956 till it became redundant recently.
Tamils consider themselves heavy weights who matter in Lanka and if you have a problem with that, you can grab hold of DJ and take a dive into the sea off Swami Rock in Trinco into the sea and not surface again!
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Shenal / February 6, 2018
Uthungan,
If Tamils are Lankan they should be able to sacrifice parts of their Tamil identity in respect to the greater Sri Lankan identity. Sinhalese have done this in the expenses of their rightful ownership to the island. However, no commitment is shown from either Tamils or Muslims.
If Tamils need another blood bath then Sinhalese are more than ready for it. Our ancestors protected this island for us Sinhalese and we are not going to give it up so easily for bunch of spineless bigots from Tamilnadu.
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Sivakumar / February 5, 2018
Well said Wiggie, you are 100% correct.
The so called “divide-and-rule policy of the British” did not favor any Tamils. It only favored the Sinhalese who collaborated with the British (known as Kalu Suddo) and got the whole island including the Tamil North & East. One does not need any education and research capability to understand the behaviors and cultural differences of two different races (Sinhalese & Tamils) in Sri Lanka. Just by living beside both of them for a certain amount of period (few years) and some intelligence/common sense is more than enough.
For example, it did not take much time for the Colonial rulers to identify the Sinhalese as foolish, lazy, violent, racist, hateful, jealous and mean spirited. The Portuguese said, ‘Sinhalaya Modaya kavum kanna yodaya’ meaning the Sinhalese fools are only good for eating kavum and what the British said about the lion flag, ‘Modayage ratae murugayage kodiya’ meaning a beast flag in the country of fools.
They did not say the same to Tamils or Muslims because the Tamils were clever, ready to learn, industrious, honest and hardworking (the Tamil work ethics – work is worship). The Tamil speaking Muslims were also honest and very good at business and trade. On the other hand, the Sinhala race was very foolish, lazy, violent, racist, hateful, jealous and mean spirited. This is the reason why, when it came to white collar jobs in the Ceylon Civil Service the colonials gave preference to Ceylon Tamils of North and East. The Tamils were holding top positions in the government service whereas the Sinhalese were working as peons and drivers.
In 1948, the British handed over the entire country to the foolish, lazy, violent, racist, hateful, jealous and mean spirited Sinhalese with the second highest GNP per capita in Asia and where are we today? Reduced to one of the poorest nation in Asia well known not only as a begging nation but also a pariah state.
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Sinhala_Man / February 5, 2018
Dear Sivakumar,
Haven’t we heard more than enough of your sort of claptrap? Please try not to work with stereotypes of this sort.
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Shenal / February 6, 2018
Sivakumar,
Brtains taken over a one country and then they gave it back as a one country too. No Tamil ever objected to British colonization for the entire island then. Why do they cry fowl now?
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Sivakumar / February 6, 2018
Throughout the entire known history, this pear shaped island had NEVER been a unitary state. It was always a Northern kingdom (Anuradapura) and a Southern kingdom (Rohana), or Kotte/Jaffna/Kandy kingdoms (Ruhunu/ Pihiti/Maya) or the federal Provinces under the colonials. Even after the European colonialists (Portuguese, Dutch and British) arrived, until the British united the Tamil speaking North to the Sinhala speaking South in 1833 for their convenience in administration, the Tamil speaking areas remained a federal region.
Those who are talking about a unitary state should ask themselves what the country gained by introducing them in the constitution. It only created a war that destroyed the country and its people for 30 long years. It is not the matter of winning the war, what created the war and how much destruction it caused, how much it cost in terms of lives and property is what we should ask and how it dragged the country down to the state of a begging pariah state is what we should think about.
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Shenal / February 6, 2018
Sivakumar,
Sri Lanka was always being a unitary state with varying degree of autonomy for regional kingdoms except for times of foreign invasions. No regional kingdom tried to claim it’s independence before bringing down the wrath of the king of Sri Lanka on themselves.
Britain didn’t unite anything in this island nation. If they did that, where was the Tamils who opposed that union? Did they hibernated during that entire time until the mid 20th century to suddenly realize that they have lost their lands to the Brits?
Stop this nonsense. Tamils have no right to this country. You are welcome to go to Tamilnadu if you wish to live in a Tamil paradise. We do not need people like you. You are a obstacle to the country’s development.
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Sivakumar / February 6, 2018
British did not unite the whole country into one in 1833???
I dismiss Shenal as ill-informed, bigoted, anti-Tamil and profoundly ignorant. Let him study his brief before he proceeds to comment on subjects he knows nothing about.
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Shenal / February 6, 2018
Sivakumar,
No they didn’t. What they did in 1833 is to devolve more power to 4 borderline coastal areas to reduce the influence of the central Kandyan kingdom (province).
What makes you think British did mingle two different kingdoms into one unitary state? Where did British state that?
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Jamis Panda / February 6, 2018
No, they did…
King George IV appointed in April 1829 a Royal Commission headed by Major W M G Colebrooke to examine “all laws, regulations and usages of the settlements in the island and into every other matter in any way connected with the administration of the civil government”. Colebrooke was followed by Charles Hay Cameron, who was commissioned to report on the judiciary.
The commissioners presented their recommendations in 1832, suggesting the creation of one government with one centralized, unitary form of administration under a governor in Colombo. The British did this without the consent of the people, and in doing so ended the hopes for a Tamil or a Kandyan Sinhalese as a distinct political entity, something that no conqueror had managed to do throughout the history of Sri Lanka.
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Sivakumar / February 7, 2018
Even though Mohd Ali Ginna was a close friend of Gandhi and Nehru, he did not want the Muslims to be ruled by Hindu India and asked for separation (Pakistan) at independence. Unfortunately, the Tamil leaders foolishly trusted/believed the Sinhalese leaders. At independence, they should have at least asked for federalism.
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sach / February 8, 2018
The issue is history. Lets have a public debate and decide…if Tamils lose, they will f off …deal?
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Native Vedda / February 8, 2018
Sivakumar
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“Even though Mohd Ali Ginna was a close friend of Gandhi and Nehru, he did not want the Muslims to be ruled by Hindu India and asked for separation (Pakistan) at independence.”
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At the time Jinna almost had given up politics and settled in the UK (as he was fed up with Ganthi’s tedious struggle. Jinna didn’t have the stomach for a long drawn out non violent struggle,) where a Muslim student at Cambridge Uni approached him with the idea for a Separate country, and named it Pakistan. The British intelligence agencies planted the idea of carving out a piece of land for Muslims of India. The student not only successfully sold the idea but also named the envisaged country as Pakistan. Jinna was rejuvenated, went back and demanded his new found love for a Islamic country.
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It was not Jinna’s idea.
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Please refer to
The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty Paperback
by Tariq Ali
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Hancho Pancha / February 5, 2018
Stupid Tamils. You should have learnt from Hon. Late Mr. Lee Kuwan Yew who broke off from the Federation of Malaysia and established the independent State of Singapore becoming a first world country in a very short time or no time in human history.
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Sam Fernando / February 5, 2018
it is no right to attack entire tamils for some that make every effort to create new devisions.
Among sinhalese too, there are radicals like MR led groups that would not want to treat minorities equally.
Listen to that Ballige putha Prof. Nalin De Silva, he is born extremist not knowing what he has been talking about. He is know all to gallery people, but that goes viral.
Rajapakshe if he would open his stinky mouth, drops only attacks both sinhalese and tamils.
He is the man that to be jailed if this nation to start go for reconciliation.
The day Rajapakashe ballige puthas are prisoned the day of start of reconcilaition of all folks.
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Justice & Fairplay / February 5, 2018
“How could you expect us as Tamils to celebrate the fourth of February?”
You can, Mr Wigneswaren by being the really BIG MAN that you are, and by firstly accepting that the 4th of Feb is the Independence Day for the ENTIRE NATION of which you and your great people are an integral part of.
Through such a show of inclusivity, you could achieve untold successes. So rise above the rabble I say; be a statesman (which is easily within your grasp), much like your compatriot Mr Sambandan.
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Rationalist / February 5, 2018
Of Course Wiggie, why would you celebrate?
You Tamils had a Better Deal than the Sinhalese, under British Rule!
Their Policy was Divide and Rule!
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Thengai Srinivasan / February 5, 2018
Dear CV,
Even after 30 years of Independence our country is in a sad plight.
All communities should be treated equally eg, Singapore, Malaysia, Indoneisa.
Srilanka has become a pariah and failed state.
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Rajash / February 5, 2018
you lost 40 years some where
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Niro / February 5, 2018
The author has a valid point. After all tamils were quite happy under the suddas. As the rest of India fought for freedom Tamil Nadu leaders wanted to be ruled by the British.
It is the sinhala who fought for freedom, especially the kandyans. It should not be ignored that these bomiputra Patriots reminded sinhala speakers and the struggles of their ancestors were appropriated by the fake sinhalese like the de sarams and other Colombo 7 types. Since sinhala speakers are not taken seriously by the Colombo set, the true history of this country continues to be ignored.
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DPJ / February 5, 2018
Somewhere in late 1960 s, I was travelling in a lift in the Central Bank with vociferous Kanagendran [now Elavendran]. He was talking to a Sinhala man and in the course of the conversation Kanagendran told the Sinhala man that if he were to be a Sinhalese he would never agree to giving the Tamils parity, as the Sinhalese are in the majority. Our good old Yogeswaran is similar to Kanagendran. He lived in Colombo, got his education in Colombo, became a Supreme Court Judge in Colombo., saw his children taking Sinhalese spouses as marriage partners, and goes to Jaffna and cries fowl. Pathetic Mr Chief Minister. .
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Ajith / February 5, 2018
DPJ,
I don’t understand your point. Living in Colombo and Marrying a Sinhala is nothing to do with the asking for equal rights. It is not Tamil Man marrying Sinhala girl, it is same as Sinhala girl marrying a jaffna man. How come you butchered a jaffna man who married a Sinhala woman in Colombo in 1958. 1977, & 1983? Have your justice system produced those who killed that Tamil man in to jail? The island of Srilanka is the home for Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims. Before 1883, Tamils had their own government in the North East. If you wants to celebrate the day British left this island as a one country, then you should have the same structure of island as before the merger of all three kingdoms.
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Uthungan / February 6, 2018
Smith
“How come you butchered a Jaffna man who married a Sinhala woman in 1958,1977,&1983?”
How can you forget the glaring fact that an unarmed Tamil man Nadesan holding a white flag to indicate surrender along with his Sinhalese wife flag getting shot and killed on the orders of the then Defence Secretary who went back on his undertaking to safeguard those surrendering in on 19th May 2009.
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Buddhi Perera / February 5, 2018
Celebrate it just like others – Sinhalese and Muslims. Yours cannot be some special kind of people!
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thondamannay / February 5, 2018
Is Wiggie then hoping to celebrate Independence in July ???????
The day the Tamils were liberated from Nandikadal gang……………..
Now not only we Tamils open out mouths to eat but to criticise as well.
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Sandy / February 5, 2018
‘ o let my land be a land where liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic
Wreath,
But opportunity is real and life is
Free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.’
( Langston Hughes).
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Dharshana W, PhD. / February 5, 2018
CV,
Do wake up from your fantasy world and come down to earth. That simple step would pave the way for many of the problems between the North and the South to be resolved emicably.
Whist I’ve always been apolitical in my “Weltanschauung”, your party and polity views has always being extremist.
You and especially you have been very singular in your approach when other political interest groups have tried to reach a compromise ( at least in the midterm) , and you have being claiming the entire “pound of flesh” which I do not seem is logical.
I have high doubts as to if that is what the general public needs at present.
You, CV is in effect ruining the hopes of an entire community due to your short-sighted strategy wherein you do not seem see beyond the tip of your nose.]
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max / February 5, 2018
Mr. Racist Wiggie, if you are reluctant to accept Feb 4th, you have an option. May 18th! Because, until then, you cardboard pundits were like kittnes, hiding in posh spots in Colombo, while barbaric LTTE turned this isle into a killing field. And, when they striped everyone’s independence then, your lips were sealed.
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Sivakumar / February 6, 2018
C. V. Wigneswaran comes from a Ceylon Tamil Aristocrat family (the Ponnampalam brothers) who rendered great service to Sri Lanka in obtaining our independence. At that time, on Sir Ponnampalam Ramanathan’s return from London, some of the top families of Sinhalese aristocracy had no qualms about drawing his carriage through the streets of Colombo virtually carrying him on their backs and the Sinhala leaders took turns to pull his carriage. Anagarika Dharmapala called Ramanathan a ‘Hero’, D S Senanayake called him ‘the greatest Ceylonese of all times’, Sir Baron Jayatilaka referred to him as ‘the greatest man Ceylon has produced during the past 50 years’.
Wigneswaran is not a racist, his two sons are married to Sinhalese. He is only talking about the genuine rights of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. All what he is saying is the truth and nothing but the truth. The Tamils can celebrate the Independence Day only after they get their due rights.
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Percy / February 6, 2018
This is absolute nonsense.The Ponnambalam brothers Coomaraswamy,Ramanathan, and Arunachalam and their descendants are well known and they constitute the leading Tamil family in Sri Lanka. Coomaraswamys descendants have not done too well. Ramanathan descendants are not too conspicuous but Arunachalama son Mahadeva, his son Baku and the female descendants in whose line are Killy Maharajah and Swaminathan MP and any others. Wiggies family has no connection at all. His forbears are H V Ram Iswara Proctor, son of VA Harichandra different family altogether.
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lal / February 5, 2018
Wigneswaran, you and other unhappy, miserable, whining Tamils should walk across the Palk Strait to your grubby Tamil Nadu hell hole. There will not be a Federal solution in Sri Lanka. Assimilate or g et the hell out of Sri Lanka. It will have to be your Tamil Nadu for sure and not Britain, Brits won’t have you.
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Rationalist / February 6, 2018
Lal
Will Britain ever give Tamils the Equal Status they demand in Sri Lanka?
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sach / February 5, 2018
How could you expect us, as tamils to celebrate the fourth of february?
1. Declare there is nothing called Sinhala
2. There was no Sinhala civilisation
3. All past kings in SL were Tamil, including Devanam piya thissa
4. Accept that Sinhala is some mongrel language born out of Tamil
5. Sri Lanka is essentially Tamil
By following these steps we can finally make Tamils feel like celebrating fourth of Feb
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 6, 2018
Sach such a stupid Sinhalised descendant of low caste Tamil Nadu immigrant,
1. Declare there is nothing called Sinhala – There is something called Sinhala but that originated only in the 7th century AD when Sinhala language was created.
2. There was no Sinhala civilisation – There was a Sinhala civilisation, but that is only 2500 years old while there was Dravidian civilisation over 10,000 years old.
3. All the past kings were Tamils, including Devanampiya Tissa – Most of the Kings were Sinhala, but before Sinhala race originated, the first few kings were Dravidian. The names of Devanampiya Tissa (Believer of Gods) and his father Mootasiva (Elder Siva) are Tamil words. If they were Sinhala why did they take Tamil names.
4. Accept that Sinhala is some mongrel language born out of Tamil. – It is the view of linguists that all Dravidians at one time spoke Tamil or some form of Tamil. It has been conclusively proved by recent two genetic studies that core genetic material of Sinhalese in south Indian. Thus ancestors of present day Sinhalese spoke Tamil. It is established that Sinhala was derived from Tamil with Sanskrit input similar to the way Malayalam evolved from Tamil with Sanskrit input. Fact that Sinhala has copied Malayalam script shows that Malayalam is older than Sinhala.
To be continued
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Shenal / February 6, 2018
Dr. Gana,
1) Atleast it was formed in 7th century in Sri Lanka. It didn’t come from India. So how can you say Sinhalese came from India? Are you a person suffering from Mahavansa syndrome?
2) You contradict yourself here. Once you say Sinhala formed in 7th century, but again you say Sinhalese has 2500 years old history. Which is correct? BTW why don’t Tamil history goes beyond 10,000 AD? Did Vishunu forgot to do some dancing before 10,000 AD?
3) Devamanpiyatissa is a Sanskrit word. Not a Tamil word. Show me one example for Tissa in a Tamil name. BTW what does Pandukabhaya mean in Tamil?
4) What is the genetic study which shows Sinhalese have core Tamil DNA? Could you state the university and the researchers behind this study and when did they do it exactly?
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 7, 2018
Shenali,
1. Sinhala did not come from India – This is not true most of the words are either Sanskrit or Tamil both Indian languages. Also script is copied from Malayalam. I cannot be suffering from Mahawamsa syndrome as I do not accept is as a true record of history especially at formative years. Genetic finding that core genetic material of Sinhalese is south Indian shows that their ancestors came from India. Presence of urn burial sites in various parts of Srilanka shows that early settlers were Dravidians. Discovery of ancient pottery in northern mainland similar to those found in Tamil Nadu roves that the same people lived in both parts of the separated landmass. So essentially Sinhalese are immigrants.
2. I said about 2500 year old civilisation because that is what had been touted ad nauseum by Sinhalese. Even Arjuna Ranatunga couple of years ago told this to Australians during Murali controversy. You are ignorant about Vishnu as Tamils were Saivites and never knew about Vishnu until Aryans introduced Brahma and Vishnu to India calling it Hinduism. So far no evidence has been unearthed to set the age of Tamil, but probably in later years with more advanced technology, submerged Kumari Kandam is explored, it may come to light.
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sach / February 8, 2018
1. Sinhala has been studied by reputed experts on linguistics all over the world. Fake Tamil linguistic experts and fake Tamil historians need not give us any reports. Sinhala Prakrit dates back to 3 BC. malayalam is a very recent language but younger to Tamil by few centuries.
All language scripts use Brahmi system. So all scripts are related to each other. How do you say Sinhala script it adopted from Malayalam? You looked at both scripts and decided it must be the same as they looked the same to your old eyes? Is that how your linguistic expertise is gained? What are you a doctor of? I am really interested to know.
What pottery was found fool? Was it Vigneshwaran’s childhood potty?
Sinhalese are the sons of the soil. That is why you have NOTHING in this country. You are an alien to this land. That is why you look like a 3rd grade copy cat of neighbour.
What is got to do with Vishnu and Saivits? The problem is stupid irrational tamils who live on myths are trying to teach our history..
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 7, 2018
3. The word deva is originally a Sanskrit word but has crept into Tamil like so many other Sanskrit word. The word Nampiya is pure Tamil meaning believer and not a Sanskrit word. The word Tissa is originally from Pali but may have crept into Tamil as there were people with Teesan names in ancient Tamil Nadu. Even if you leave him aside, the name of his father Mootha Siva is pure Tamil and denotes that he is a Saivite. I do not know what Pandukabhaya means as I am not a linguist, but it could be “not afraid of Pandhu (cricket ball)”
4. DNA study – I pity your ignorance. Two studies were conducted by Sinhala scholars independent of each other, one by Colombo Medical faculty with New Castle University UK and other by Kelaniya Science faculty with Bangkok university. They were done a few years ago and is available on the internet. Both came to the same conclusion – Core genetic material of Sinhalese, Tamils and Srilanka Moors is South Indian. Genetic make up of Sinhalese does not resemble that of Veddhas but Tamils of Tamil Nadu. Both Sinhalese and Tamils of Srilanka have similar genetic composition with varying Bengali and Veddha input.
Please shed your bigoted mind and search for the truth as told by Buddha. With advancing technology truth will come out and people like you will have to hang your heads in shame and go into hiding. Please allow extensive archaeological survey in Srilanka by international experts to get at the truth.
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mani / February 10, 2018
Sach come out of cuckoo land lady! Here we go, Tamil predates sanskrit and tamilnadu had pre-paleolithic culture as proven by archealogical evidence (Published in nature! foot you show one proof). It is even prooving that we are not migrant to india from africa and our settlement predates even prior to african civilisation, There is enough of you sort of sinhlase fake claims,
read here and argue me else go and hide in gutter
https://thewire.in/220076/stone-tools-found-tamil-nadu-suggest-humans-left-africa-much-earlier/
I can throw hundred published eveidnce that Tamil is even older than sankrit and tamil formed majority of india.
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Native Vedda / February 10, 2018
Manisekeran
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“I can throw hundred published eveidnce that Tamil is even older than sankrit and tamil formed majority of india.
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Could you let me have detailed reference to published evidence.
By the way where you’ve been all these months and years. How are you.
Are you helping the Hindian Hinduttva fascists penetrate the South?
What is happening to archaeological materials found in Keelady? Have they taken all of the material to Bengaluru? What is your Tamil Nadu state government doing about it?
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Are you supporting Rajnikanth or Kamala Hasan?
Poor Vairamuthu caught in the Hinduttva saffron machination.
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sach / February 8, 2018
1. Sinhala was not formed in 7 AD. The oldest Sinhala Pakrit dates back to 3 BC. The oldest Tamil inscription found in SL is after 10 AD. Refer to work done by James Gair.
2. There are references to Sinhala people in ancient books like Mahabharat, Deepavamsa and Mahavamsa.
3. Tamil is NOT that old.In fact what you see as Tamil is Hindu culture. Tamil is an identity that was formed very recently
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Native Vedda / February 8, 2018
sachooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Here we go again.
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sach / February 8, 2018
See…..what I said was true…what we have is a psychiatric problem of Tamils……political solutions cannot solve mental issues…
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Native Vedda / February 8, 2018
sach
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“See…..what I said was true…what we have is a psychiatric problem of Tamils……political solutions cannot solve mental issues…”
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Alright it must be battered woman syndrome, possible cause cumulative abuse by husband or partner.
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Possible solution, either sending the abusers to prison or exile them to whence their ancestors came in your case South India.
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You will be the first one to be deported if I have my way. Get ready, pack your bags, …..
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 6, 2018
5. Srilanka is essentially Tamil – More than 10,000 years ago, Srilanka and Tamil Nadu were a contiguous land mass, before sea upheaval separated them. It is a historical fact that Dravidians moved south and settled in present day South India and Srilanka including the vast land area which had been submerged called Kumari Kandam. Both NASA and Indian institute of oceanology have confirmed existence of civilisation under the sea between Tamil Nadu and Srilanka. When Vijaya and his friends landed in Srilanka they were able to communicate with Kuveni and her people and when Vijaya and his friends got brides from Pandiyan Kingdom they were able to communicate with them. Since Pandiyan brides spoke only Tamil, shows that all of them understood Tamil. This corroborates with what linguists concluded that all Dravidians at one time spoke Tamil or similar to it. In the course of time there were input from Bengal, Orissa, Andhra and Kerala into inhabitants of Srilanka which corroborates with the genetic findings of Sinhalese and Tamils. Thus Srilanka was initially Dravidian and subsequently some took up Sinhala identity and the rest continued to remain as Tamils. To say that all Sinhalese are original people and all Tamils are immigrants is rank racism. Catholic karawas in western coast and salagamas were brought by Portuguese and have been absorbed into Sinhala race. Some Tamils have become Sinhalese and some Sinhalese have become Tamils showing genetic similarity between both ethnicities.
It is sad that racists like you are hiding the truth and also do not want new evidence to surface by extensive archaeological surveys which will blow away false Sinhala propaganda of sole ownership of Srilanka. It is said that Sinhala archaeology lies superficially while Tamil archaeology lies deep. By showing the Sinhala Buddhist monuments and denying Tamils to unearth their past amounts to discrimination.
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Sinhala_Man / February 6, 2018
Dear Gnana,
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Your writing here is what I meant by accusing some of you of “provoking the Sinhalese”. I know that my genetic make up is mostly Dravidian, but culturally I’m a Sinhalese – a bit of an Anglophile. There is little Tamilness in me, but I want you to live in this country (instead of living in England) without giving up any of YOUR Tamilness.
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You’ve got to be honest with yourself. One of the oldest audio recordings extant is one of Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. He made the recording in 1890, died in 1892. I’ve just listened to it. THAT English we can ALL understand, but the recording quality is so poor, we have to follow the tapescript.
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Irrelevant? No. Language exists primarily as Speech – something that our Sinhalese pundits also forget. We have absolutely no idea as to HOW speakers enunciated two hundred years ago. If we went back in a time-machine to five hundred years ago, we’d understand nothing of what we hear in any language. By “we” I mean the non-scholar of a language.
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A minute fraction of the spoken language of those times, usually designated “Literature” has been reconstructed, and recordings can be easily found on the Internet: Shakespeare for instance. I don’t mean recordings by Gielgud, Olivier or Burton. David Crystal and his son have recorded passages alternating between the known current pronunciation and the Early Modern English that the Bard used.
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Chaucer (lived 1340 to 1400) recordings ARE usually made in Late Middle English reconstructions (most today read TRANSLATIONS – that’s how much language has changed). I don’t think that you will understand Chuacer in Middle English. I can understand – with difficulty.
To be continued . . .
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Uthungan / February 6, 2018
Sinhala Man
What you say is informative and covincincing. Thanks.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 7, 2018
Dear Panini AKA Sinhala Man, Buddha searched for the truth and he wanted his followers to do so. I am doing according to his teaching to find out about the true history of Srilanka. From the time we were students, we were told about Srilanka history which is now being proven to be wrong. When this was done over the years Tamils accepted it and were not provoked by those lies. Is it not better for Tamils to tell the truth and provoke Sinhalese rather than Sinhalese to tell lies and provoke Tamils. We were told that Sinhalese are the rightful owners of the entire island with a 2500 year old civilisation and that Tamils are immigrants after 11th century. With the genetic findings and discovery of a 10,000 year old civilisation (not Sinhala, but probably Dravidian similar to that found in Tamil Nadu) do you expect Tamils to keep quiet and not demand further investigations. What is preventing Sinhalese to accept truth and ditch their entrenched belief, other than their bigoted claim and deny Tamils their rightful place in the island.
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Percy / February 8, 2018
Sinhala man
You say that you just listened to a recording of Tennyson’s “Charge of the light brigade”That recording was made into a cylindrical wax record and it is almost impossible to find a player of that type today. Do I understand youto say that you possess one of those?
BTW Lord Raglan Who led the charge into the valley of death left his only surviving male descendantLord Lucan who disappeared after murdering his child’s nanny some 25 years ago.Scotland yard are still looking for him! I think he has been legally recognised as dead for testamentarypurposes. I thought this tit bit may interest you, if you didn’t already know it.
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Sinhala_Man / February 8, 2018
Dear Percy,
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I don’t have even one of those gramophones with the dog listening to His Master’s Voice.
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Just google for it. That priceless recording has been turned in to something that your computer will play for you.
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By the way, I used to think the poem rather jingoistic, but there again the Internet has helped. I’ve seen how it can be rather more sensitively interpreted.
Lord Raglan, and Lord Lucan – no time right now to scour the Internet for that right now. Thanks.
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Again, the Internet did provide me with much on the rivalry between those two (if I remember right), but I didn’t know about this contemporary development.
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Sinhala_Man / February 6, 2018
Continuing . . . Part 2 of 3 Parts
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I will try to get back to relevance after saying a little more about English.
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When we go back to the “Ye Olde Englishe” period (by the way my spelling there represents fake scholarship!) we are all at total loss. The last Sri Lankan who was comfortable with it was Doric de Souza (died 1987 – I met him a few years before that to discuss Old English.). I suggest you google for Prof. Justin Jackson reading the opening of Beowulf. There you will hear and see voice and script. It was written down about 975 A.D.
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Those few who have read it say that Beowulf is wonderful. There can be little doubt, however, that Indian languages were far ahead of English at that time. Greek and Latin are a different story.
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Can you, Gnana, read (forget pronunciation) Tamil texts that are 500 years old? I cannot make head or tail of the Sigiri graffiti without the help of exegesis. Why don’t we come off it all, and start living in the REAL Sri Lanka, where Sinhala is the dominant language, and any person moving around the island needs a smattering of Sinhala? I’m not making value judgments here. Young Tamils who travel a bit within the country pick up a bit of Sinhala if left to themselves.
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Now that’s the point! Please don’t try to prevent them learning Sinhala, and the Sinhalese should do all that they can to lessen the need for Tamils to learn Sinhala. Clearly, the Government should not force Sinhala on to Tamils.
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As clearly, please don’t try to make us learn Tamil; it is of such little practical use. I don’t know Tamil, but I engineered my daughter in to learning it. The reward: She suffered severe harassment a a suspected Tiger suicide bomber. Yes, welcome to the country like no other!
Will continue . . .
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Shenal / February 6, 2018
Dr. Gnana,
Before 10,000 years ago, there were no Tamils per se. Your logic breaks down from here.
All Tamils must become Sinhala in Sri Lanka. If not they should go to Tamilnadu. There are no place for Tamils in Sri Lanka to protect their identity.
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Sinhala_Man / February 6, 2018
Continuing: Part 3:
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However, I’ve been googling about Tamil recently. Many neutral websites regarded it as the language whose origins can be traced back to the greatest antiquity. So, you have a point there, Gnana. You can take pride in the antiquity of the language, AND I’m sure that it is one that is adequate for most purposes today.
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Unfortunately, it is only a small minority of the world population of 7.6 billion who use it. Sinhalese is used by even fewer, but is also a highly developed language. Origins of Sinhala? Wiggie, and you, Gnana, are probably right. But Sinhala is the dominant language in Sri Lanka. If you want your children to live here (welcome, Kids!), it would be sensible for them to know Sinhala.
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The tragedy for Sri Lanka is that it is only BIGOTS who learn ABOUT these two languages. English has spread throughout the world, and despite all its eccentricities, has been learnt by at least a billion as a Second Language.. It has not got to be forced on anyone any more. For my father, the great grammars of English were the monumental works of the Dane, Otto Jesperson (please google). For me it is the American, Naom Chomsky, whose home language was Yiddish.
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Those studies of English were objective, undertaken with no intention of proving English to be the “Greatest Language”, which it probably isn’t!
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I argue for rationality and tolerance with guys I meet in buses and on the road, in Sinhala. Could you Tamils please stop provoking us by boasting about the antiquity and greatness of your language. The average Sinhalese will not even listen to you, may even attack you. Some, like me will stumble on the truth, and acknowledge the merits of Tamil.
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If you respond, please avoid emotive words like “mongrel”. Most unscientific of you. Better still, stop worrying about all this – and focus on electing honest people on the 10th Feb. 2018.
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Yesterday’s newspapers speak of PAFFREL releasing a compilation of “all undesirable individuals” who are in the fray – but no such list do I see. Could Colombo Telegraph please publish the list?
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sach / February 8, 2018
It was 7000 years before SL separated from India geographically……….There was NO TAMILS then..( for fks sake, get some knowledge on the history of Tamils…….and get some common sense)
Definitiely humans had come from Indian subcontinent. And they settled and that is what we have as Sinhalese today.
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Maya / February 5, 2018
Yesterday there was a ptotest in front of srilankan high commission in London by Tamils. Embassy officials were watching the protest and a srilankan military officer in uniform got angry and threatened the Tamils gathered there by way of a sign of slitting the neck. What a disgusting show of his strength in a foreign land ! May be that veeraya is enjoying diplomatic immunity.!!
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Rajash / February 5, 2018
go to TamilWin website to see the video. may be he can reported to the police for threatning to slit the throat of the protesters.
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Rajash / February 5, 2018
Sri Lankan independence day celebration in London. Message fro the Army General to the Tamils
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Ranjan / February 5, 2018
Well said. Absolutely right. what is there to celebrate.
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Yasin / February 5, 2018
We gained our independence on a silver platter with lifting a finger and it was served to us on a silver platter. We never valued independence and whatever celebrations on the day of this occasion is a shame and a sham.
The majority Sinhalese have fooled their own people by the introduction of the Sinhala only policy. The surge of violence by the Tamils was a Sinhalese creation by forcing Sinhala on the Tamils. The racial divide and hatred started in 1958 with the introduction of ‘Sri” and in the melee, the Muslims as well as other minorities like the Burghers, were victimized as well. This was the beginning of the downfall of Sri Lanka.
Sinhala opportunists did not lose time in jumping onto the communal bandwagon
and continued to brainwash their own kind.
Buddhism became more commercialized and was forcefully introduced into unchartered areas with Buddha statues displayed besides non Buddhist places of worship in fact in every nook and corner. The situation now is beyond repair and the divide is getting wider with successive governments using the pro Sinhala/Buddhist
slogan to gain leverage from their own kind.
MR administration was bad, Gotabaya exempted, MS administration is many levels below bad.
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sach / February 8, 2018
Tamils are prone to violence. They are a violent community. Watch their movies. Tamil separatism started way back in 1920s. They feared their priviledged position would be lost ones democracy was brought to SL
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K.Kuleswarakumar / February 5, 2018
Hon.C.V. Wiggy is not a righteous person altogether. He didn’t have any platform in the Northern province and the C.M post was given to him on a platter through the support of the ITAK which it earned through generation old tears and hard work. In return what he did to them? He is not a worthy man to talk about the rights and plights of the Tamils. When he was living in Colombo, he would have witnessed at least 3 pogrom against Tamils. Was he affected by at least one of them? No. He was well protected by his Sinhalese friends in Colombo. Now he talks about the rights of the Tamil people raising decade old slogans.
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Frederick Douglass / February 5, 2018
Frederick Douglass said:
“Fellow-citizens, what have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?
Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes [by torture] and death to me. This Fourth of July [February] is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
What, to [Tamils] is your 4th of July [February]? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham […] a thin veil [which covers up] crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.”
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Kalu Albert / February 5, 2018
Wiggy would have had at least one birthday of his Eelaam, to celebrate if their mate Dr Ranil F***** up?.
Wiggy has to blame their own kind for it too .
But then Dr Mahendran couldn’t careless I guess…As long as his SIL became the richest man in Srilanaka, and the MD of the UNP Treasury at Srikotha..
Wiggy’s mate Mr Mangala must be spewing not only because of Dr Ranil’s stupidity .
But also because Wiggy and his Vellala Lot got a bit ahead And demanded the Electric Chair for Rajapalasa and the War Heroes…
And the judging to be done by imported Judges from the same countries where Mr Pirahaparan got his Finances.
And the same countries which sent their senior envoys to demand Rajapaksas hand over Mr Pirahaparan to them in Nanthikdal.
Now Sira got the upper hand, and put Wiggy’s demands on the back burner.
In addition the Country is in chaos.
With the Sinhala poor getting hit the worst.
They are not in a mood to tick off any partition until they get something in return.
Like a high standard of living, Better Education not Private SAITMs, Proper improved Government Services and not from Dr Ranil. Kabir, Malik, Baththudeen and and Marrikkars’s friends and Aloysious.
And other host of things which provide equal opportunities for the whole inhabitant population to live any where as equals..
Not just Rosy aunty and Rnil uncles hip set in Colombo…
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Eagle Eye / February 5, 2018
“Their existence from pre-historic times in the North and East of Sri Lanka and their ancient Classical language were overlooked and the language of the majority was made the sole state and official language.”
Perhaps Mr. Wigneswaran should read captain Percival’s book on Ceylon in the early part of the 19th century when Percival spend several years in Jaffna and recorded the life there. According to captain Percival, the majority of the people living in Jaffna were Muslims, then came the Sinhalese and the Malabars in terms of numbers.
The word ‘Demala’ is the term used by Sinhalese to refer to South Indian invaders. ‘Malabars’ was the term used during colonial rule to refer to ‘Demal’ people until a Tamil person in-charge of the Census Department introduced the term ‘Ceylon Tamils’. During colonial rule lots of Tamils were brought to Sri Lanka as slaves. Most of the present day Demalu are the descendants of those slaves. Now these Demalu are trying to dictate terms on how to prepare the constitution of the country.
When English was the only official language Demalu had no problem. English letters in car number plates was acceptable but not ‘Shree’.
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Jamis Panda / February 6, 2018
Eagle Eye,
During the colonial rule (in 16th century the Portuguese & in 18th century the Dutch), lots of Dalit (untouchables) South Indians (low caste Demalu) were brought to Sri Lanka as slaves and settled in the Southern parts of the island from Chilaw up to Matara as menial laborers/coolies (for growing/peeling cinnamon – today known as Salagama caste, for fishing/pearl diving – today known as Karawa caste, coconut planting/plucking and toddy tapping – today known as Durawa caste, and for many other jobs). Within a few centuries, the Sinhala population in the South increased exponentially when these people changed their religion to Buddhism and Christianity to hide their caste and eventually assimilated with the local Sinhala population (Sinhalized) by adopting the Sinhala language/culture and getting converted to Sinhala Buddhists and Sinhala Catholics. Some of them even adopted the Portuguese surnames to hide their original South Indian (low caste) identity.
Today their descendants are not only claiming the ancient Sri Lankan civilization as their own ‘Sinhala’ heritage but have also become the patriots and champions of Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism. They have become distinct, ‘North Indian Sinhabahu’s Lion-blooded Sinhala Aryans’, the Nationalist Patriots and guardians of the country (Dhammadivpa) and its Religion (Buddhism) and call themselves the blood relatives of Dutugemunu. If the forefathers of these so called “Sinhaputhra/Boomiputhra of Heladiva” had remained as Tamils, (without assimilating with the Sinhalese) today the Tamils would have been the majority in Sri Lanka or if they had assimilated with the Veddas instead of Sinhalese, today the Veddas would have been considerably a large population in Sri Lanka.
So Eagle Eye, can you please tell us from which TN tribal area your ancestors (Dalit/untouchable Demalu) came to Sri Lanka and got converted into Sinhala-Buddhists? What is their surname now, Perera, De Silva, Fernando? What was their names before conversion, Parama Cutti, Nila Cutti?
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sach / February 8, 2018
yes yes lot of dalits came and became Sinhalese…natural process….if I go to Rome, I should be Roman, ….if I ended up retaining what I had..then that is wrong
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Sivakumar / February 7, 2018
Eagle Eye,
So, when the Colonials brought Tamils and settled in the North & East, all the Sinhala Buddhists who were living in the North & East give up their entire lands to the Tamils and moved out from there? Did the Sinhalese living in the North & East welcome/receive the Tamils with open arms, gave them their lands, packed their bags and go to the south? When did they do such a generous act? Or were they insane to do such a thing?
Why didn’t the Sinhalese living in the upcountry also do the same, give their entire lands to the Tamils and move out to the South? How come the Sinhalese remained in the Upcountry when the Tamils were settled but they did not remain in the North & East? Why only in the North & East the Sinhalese had to leave even without any protest/rebellion?
Bhuvanekabahu VI (Chempaha Perumal aka Sapumal Kumaraya) the adopted son of Parakrama Bahu VI captured the Jaffna Kingdom in 1450. During his rule in Jaffna, he re-built the premier shrine of Hindu worship – the Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil (he did not build any Buddhist temples) located in the heart of Jaffna for the Tamil people of Jaffna peninsula. The Tamils of Jaffna are still invoking his name and singing thevarams to him in the Nallur Kovil before the temple procession of Lord Murukan.
As per your argument, if the people of Jaffna before the colonials arrived were Sinhalese, then Sapumal Kumaraya should have built/re-built a Buddhist temple and NOT a Hindu Kovil in the heart of Jaffna. Why did he build the Hindu Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil in the 13th Century AD for the so called Sinhalese of Jaffna?
Throughout the entire history, the North & East of Sri Lanka was Tamil, is Tamil and will be Tamil forever.
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Eagle Eye / February 5, 2018
Why Tamils want ‘Thamil Eelam’ in Sri Lanka where there are only about two million Tamils scattered all over the country while there are about 60 million Tamils in Tamil Nadu which is the real hameland of Tamils.
According to D.B.S Jeyaraj (Separate Tamil State Demand Abondaned by DMK After 16th Constitutional Amendment Bans Secessionism in India, http://dbsjeyaraj.com/)
“Thamizhan Illaathaa Naadumillai. Thamizhanukkendroru Naadumillai”
(There is no country without Tamils. There is no country for the Tamils) is a saying in Tamil that vividly illustrates the angst felt by the more nationalist sections of Tamils about the lack of a country of their own – an Independent sovereign self-governing Tamil state!
The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu meaning Tamil Land or Tamil Country is home to more than 60 million Tamil speaking people. It stands to reason therefore that if the Tamils do want to establish a separate state of their own, the best and correct choice would be for Tamil Nadu to declare independence and secede from the Indian union.
Although there was a flourishing Tamil secessionist movement in India at one time, the Tamil separatist demand is now virtually extinct in India. The primary factor which contributed to this state of affairs was the pragmatic conduct of the Dravida Munnetrak Kazhagham(DMK) which abandoned the secessionist demand when separatism was banned through the 16th Amendment to the Indian Constitution.”
Tamils in Tamil Nadu do not have guts to fight against Aryans in the north and declare Tamil Nadu a separate state.
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Mallaiyuran / February 5, 2018
Sampanthar has said that he was invited to negotiations and threatened with Physical safety.
It was Ranil who assured the legal and other safeties to Old King when he was leaving the Temple Tree House. Recently Old King had challenged if Ranil can, have his Civic rights removed. He issued same threats to New King too with double edged sword.
Sampanthar & Selected TNA members went to negotiate with Old Royals in January 2012. Three days in a row Nimal SiriPala De Silva did not show up. Then Old King invited Sampanthar to Temple Tree House and there he and his accomplices threatened Sampanthar of physical safety. Sampanthar has talked about in a Trincomalee LG election rally.
Further Sampanthar was threatened to attending the 2012 UNHRC Sitting, with pogrom against Tamils. I believe Premachandran and Sritharan unofficially attended UNHRC, Geneva. Those days, with the help of Hakeem and Rishard, many Muslims were hired to protest against that UNHRC siting using Muslims’ anti-American sentiment. Wimal’s famous LEMON PUFF show was also in those days.
This the story of Old Royals restoring Tamils rights after receiving help from 32 nations to defeat Tamils fights for Freedom.
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Sinhala_Man / February 5, 2018
Dear Friend Unreal,
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We’ve exchanged comments before, and I think that we like each other. I can’t aim at being profound all the time.
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Excuse my saying things out of context.
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You always talk sense, “Unreal”. I’d like to have a response from Ajith.
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Jim softy / February 6, 2018
Sinhala People also do not like February fourth. British gave so called indeoendance because they were leaving from British India – Myanmar. Sri lanka did nt have anything that can be stolen or to take away. SO, it was better to leave. We like May 19th or Keppetipola day.In a democratic world, majority opinion must prevail.
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Percy / February 6, 2018
Wiggle
Don’t celebrate Feb 4. No one gives a shit whether celebrate or not. You must be celebrating every day of your miserable life, the scrounging you did living in the traditional homelands of the Sinhalese. The education you received at Royal College was almost entirely out of the bounty of the Sinhala people who you now despise. Try to remember how you carried your thosai in a brass container and stood outside the house for a bus to take to school. All those resources were provided by the people of the South. No one discriminated against you, and you were given every opportunity to advance yourself often under cutting and betraying your Sinhalese colleagues. Ungrateful people like you have a special place reserved in a place called hell. Besides, is it your grandmother or grand aunt a poor Sinhalese domestic servant who was seduced by your grandfather Ram Isvara.Soyou have Sinhala blood in you .
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Native Vedda / February 6, 2018
Percy dated disturbed and pathetic
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“No one gives a shit whether celebrate or not.”
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Is there a shortage for s**t?
How come?
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“Try to remember how you carried your thosai in a brass container and stood outside the house for a bus to take to school. “
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You mean those days how you effectively beg him to share the Dosai, Idly, Vaddei…. ??
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Paramanathan K / February 6, 2018
Seventy years of independence didn’t bring any good for the entire population of Sri Lanka. But rather it brought unending misery for the people. In today’s context, people are confused with patriotism to nationalism as the leaders in the past and present continue to abuse power and resorted to corruption. Those who led us in the past had betrayed the country and cheating the people left and right. They played the game of racial politics to hoodwink the poor masses with petty slogans. This game plan seems to continue even now and no sign of ending. Whither Sri Lanka, weeping mother Lanka.
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Percy / February 6, 2018
Stupid Tamil Vedda
Your infantile remarks are really pathetic. Try to inject some humour at least. The childish remarks of yours are even below the IQ level of kids in a playground. Try harder although I know you are mentally deficient you can’t progress unless you try hard. And stop wearing those blinkers when you neigh.afterall we are in a serious confab aren’t we ? The iddlies and the vadais? I need not tell you where to poke them up!
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kettikaran / February 6, 2018
Sinhala_ man
Reading you regularly leaves me with the feeling you are one of those decent, educated, liberal Sinhala gentleman refusing to be consumed by the poison of extreme Sinhala nationalism or Tamil hatred. Being in your age level, I am happy to inform you as a Tamil born and bred in the South, it has been a privilege for me to meet and have as close friends many such Sinhalese. But I see many growing instances where Tamils are made to feel second class and left with much avoidable grievances.
Be assured Tamils then and now were/are not averse to learn Sinhala. What they object to – and I am with them there – is for Sinhala to be pushed forcibly down the throats of Tamils. Until 1956 many Tamils willingly and happily learnt Sinhala is a fact you know. That is what Sinhala Only did to us. It denied Kodeeswaren his job and justice. It prevented Tamils from learning Sinhala voluntarily.
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Kettikaran
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kettikaran / February 6, 2018
Sinhala_Man
(Cont’d 3)
The purpose in my referring to the uprising of the JVP and thereafter by the Tamil armed groups is to illustrate the point while both groups of youth waged armed war against the State, they were given different treatment by the Sinhala-majority government as well the judicial process. I need not add both Sinhalese and Tamils are subject to the same laws of the land. Whereas, while the Sinhala JVP youth were pardoned and reinstated, which, I repeat, was the right thing to do, the Tamil youth were treated brutally and against the letter and spirit of the Constitution. This left room in the minds of the Tamil Nation to legitimately ask if there is a different interpretation by GoSL to Sinhalese and Tamils under the same Constitution. This is why, good Sir, the UN and the international community find the Tamils are the aggrieved in our ethnic conflict.
I am, however, encouraged to observe in recent times the activist anti-Tamil side – such as the late Ven. Madulwewe Sobita Thero from the radical Buddhist priest hood, the JVP and many others in the Sinhala spectrum are now re-assessing their position on the Tamil Nation more rationally. I hope this succeeds to the level of the pre-1950s when Sinhalese and Tamils lived together in friendship and harmony.
Kettikaran
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Sivakumar / February 6, 2018
The Tamils refused to learn Sinhala because it was forced on to them. Otherwise they would have learned and mastered the Sinhala language, like Sir Mutthukumaraswamy who translated and saved so many centuries’ old Sinhala literatures.
SWRD Bandaranayake tried to force ‘Sinhala only’ on to the Tamils to gather some cheap Sinhala votes and screwed up the whole country, still in a mess.
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