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Banning LTTE will increase its Diaspora funding
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kankun
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4 Jul 2007 04:53:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pera & Berty Ayya,
Both of you had for gotten couple of facts about why sinhalse leave the country.
1. Married to a Tamil spouse
2. Married to a foreigner and immigration in SL don't give visa to a foreign spouse. |
Pera
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4 Jul 2007 04:53:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty,
Oops
I was talking of 'Educated' Tamils.
That means Tamils with University degrees etc.
Not an uneducated bafoon :)
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4 Jul 2007 04:54:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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Fyi
At the turn of this century, there existed an elite group of mission school educated Christian Tamils in Jaffna and Colombo, who held privileged positions under the colonial government. Like many colonials, the British had a policy of 'divide and rule', thus favouring and patronising a small minority group and elevating them above the majority (Sinhalese) and also above ordinary Tamils and Muslims.
This was a rather effective mean of colonial administrative control. This elite group became prominent political leaders in the early 20th century. They had been nurtured in the Christian-mission-schools set up mainly in Jaffna and Colombo for that very purpose. Table 3 shows the bias towards the Jaffna peninsula if not the Northern Province (36 Schools) while many Sinhalese dominant provinces had hardly any such schools.
As long as the British ruled the country, the favoured groups of Tamils had no qualms about enjoying their privileged position, but with the impending departure of the British, they foresaw a grave threat to their privileges from the majority (non-English educated) Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims who would naturally take over the reins of power.
Since the call for independence was strong and too strong to resist (many colonials were granted independence after World War II), these Tamil politicians were alarmed and demanded what is euphemistically known as the 'fifty - fifty' solution (i.e. 50% seats in parliament to the 13% minority Ceylon Tamils and other minority groups and remaining 50% to the 74% majority Sinhalese). If this had been granted, it would have ensured Tamil minority dominance in Sri Lanka and would have given rise to an apartheid situation as in South Africa under white minority rule. The British Government quite rightly rejected this demand outright, and granted independence to Sri Lanka in 1948.
Having failed in their unreasonable attempt to dominate the political arena in Sri Lanka, one section of the Tamil elite formed the first quasi-separatist political party in 1949 (one year after independence) it was called (in Tamil) 'Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi' (Ceylon Tamil State Party) which they misnamed 'Federal Party' for the purpose of their real intentions, viz., separation. S.J.V. Chelvanayagam, an elite-Christian, Tamil lawyer was its founder leader. Having failed to dominate the political scenario in the country, the 'Federal Party' s express purpose was to work towards the establishment of a separate Tamil State within the so-called 'Tamil Homeland' in the North and East. This was the sequel to the loss of colonial privileges to this elite group of Tamils. |
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4 Jul 2007 04:55:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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I don't see much difference
because you read only what you like to read!
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Berty
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4 Jul 2007 04:56:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kankun Malli
Let us look at this differently..
If You take Tamils and Sinhalese..I think Tamils have more reasons to leave the country..If you look at PERA's reasons for Sinhalese going out..sounds as if the Homeland was not good enough for them..earn more money/better life/Educate their kids...
ur reasons are fine too..i fall into that category in addition to all the above ...
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4 Jul 2007 04:58:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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OOoooooooooooooopps,
The love quarrel has started......I am off:(:(:(:( |
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4 Jul 2007 05:00:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mark
The love quarrel has started......I am off:(:(:(:(
It will not..I promise..u can wait and enjoy..lolz
hey hey malli..i sent you an e-mail but bounced back. can you send me one from the new one so that i can reply on that...Thanks
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EEELamaya
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4 Jul 2007 05:01:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Astro, pal:
Can you give some examples that Tamils are marginalized in Sri Lanka?
No matter what we say, you guys will try to justify the prevailing situation by uttering half-truths, like what Rasak is doing now, by quoting some things written by Sinhala nationalists...
People would not go to war for nothing... Tamil people have grievances... without addressing how to solve them, just blowing hones here will not do any good!
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kankun
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4 Jul 2007 05:02:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty Ayya,
I do agree about Tamils have more reason to leave the country than a Sinhalese. For that matter we have to blame GOSL and LTTE Equally. |
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4 Jul 2007 05:04:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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Eelamaya,
I asked you to give me some examples that how the Tamils arr marginalized in Sri Lanka? Can you show me? Do you have answer for that? If yes i need examples....without telling craps.... |
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