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Eric Nirmalan | July 22nd, 2007 at 6:52 am

Minister Dewanayagam as a young lawyer in Battcaloa later stated at a public meeting that the ?there were hardly any Tamils in Batticaloa when he first started his practice in the 1930s.?

In fact there was no term as the Jaffna Tamils in the early part of 1900. Our ancesters were called Malabars by the Portugese, Dutch and the early British and by varous other terms, until we became predominantly Tamil and Briish came to understand the differences with the recruitment of our brethren for the coffee plantations . Both our own writers Kathiresu, circa 1905 and Mudaliar Rasanayagam uses the term ?Jaffnese?. The term Jaffna Tamils developed only once settlements started in the east so as to distinguish our high caste Tamils from the mixed people of Battcaloa, and that term came into much later in the 20 th century. There were no Northern or Eastern Tamils mentioned till even much later. The Jaffnese in large numbers were confined to the Jaffna peninsular until the railways opened for our ancestors to come to Colombo in 1906 onwards. Else the movement of people by sea or land was very limited.

Once Tamil youth are encorage to read factual history of the 1901 census is seen that 88% of the population was concentrated on the Jaffa peninsular and only 12% lived in todays Mullativu, Kilinochchi districts of the Northern Province. As per J.P Lewis (Manual of the Wanni Districts of Ceylon) the long serving Governement Agent of the Wanni, immigration and settlement of the areas from people from Jaffna and India was government sposored and the Mullativu Hospital was called the ?Immigration? Hospital. The areas were abandoned by the Sinhalese who withdrew to the hinterland in the face of foreign invasions.

I feel our young Tamils have to be encouraged to read these narratives to know the true history of Sri Lanka rather than the leading them down the garden path of rhetoric, arraogance and racism.

Please read, Mudaliar Rasanayam himself in Ancient Jaffna, where he quotes the ?Yalapana Vaipa Malar P 33-8242 and speaks of the Sinhalese living in villages of Yalapanam at the time of our King Sankili. He says ?After the massacre of the Christians, Sankili?s insane fury longed for more victims and he fell upon the Buddhists of Jaffna who were all Sinhalese. He expelled them beyond the limits of the country and destroyed their various places of worship. M ost of them betook themselves to the Vannis and the Kandyan territories?. This is as per Y.P.M.

I wish young Tamils read and absorb these historical texts and other information rather than listening to unfounded racists literature that has caused such tragedy to our generation.

Journalists and othe leaders of the community have a duty to educate our youngsters. It was Sir Pannambalm Ramanathan who rejected universal franchise for all Ceylonese in the 1920s, and sowed the seeds of racism in Ilankai. However the Sinhalese due to their own petty caste issues did not think so. They elected a Tamil to take their seat in the State Council.

That was racial harmony at that time for ?one Ceylon?. Lets build that underatsanding rapport once again. tsanding rapport once again.

Now go on doing Credit card Frauds and raise funds to kill your own people and expect to go to heaven.

Ragive Gandai,
RG was not killed, but he was given capital punisnment by the people of Thamileelam for being fully responsible for the murder of more than 3000 Thamileelam Tamils by his cowardice army.

realman,
...........where do you seek asylum if you are a descent Tamil?

real man, if this terror supporters believe that they have defector estate call weelaram in suck-kilinochchi,they should have gone there and claim asylum in there