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Minister Maithripala Sirisena escapes LTTE assassination attempt in Sri Lanka
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peacemakerSri
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 10 Oct 2008 02:48:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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This is just BS. There were few migration, due to marrages and such, but not the 'wave' you talking about. Most of the Tamils in Tamil Eelam area were decendents of Tamils who had lived there for thousands of years!
Most Tamils came after 13th century. it is a historically accepted fact.
How many Tamils have close relatives in Tamil Nadu? People who migrated long time ago cannot have close relatives in Tamil Nadu.
Even Prabhakaran's forefathers came only 200 years ago. |
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10 Oct 2008 02:50:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vellalar (Sri Lankan Tamil)
What is certain is that the Sri Lankan Tamil Vellalar identity rose amongst those who migrated from neibhouring Tamil Nadu state in India since the 13the century. According to Yalpana Vaipava Malai, a native chronicle that documents the history of the rise and fall of the Jaffna kingdom in Sri Lanka from the 12th century to the 16th, many Vellalar chiefs from Tamil Nadu were responsible for organizing settlement groups from India in to the Jaffna peninsula. Most of these pioneering families had titles associted with clan chiefs such as Rayan, Thevan, Mudali, Mappanan and Malavan.
During the Jaffna kingdom period and the following colonial period since the 16 the century, Vellala chiefs were in constant struggle for supremacy with another now extinct caste called Madapalli. The kings belonging to the Arya Chakaravarthi dynasty would appoint leaders from both the factions to maintain peace in the kingdom.
According Bryan Pfaffenberger, an American anthroplogist who has studied the community in detail, the rise to complete dominance by the Vellala elites began with the capture of Portuguese holdings in Sri Lanka by the Dutch. The Dutch ineterpreted the local laws later codified as Thesavalamai as allowing Vellala chiefs to own slaves. Thus empowered many tobacco plantations were created by the Vellala chiefs with the help of imorted Indian workers from the Pallar caste who were held as slaves. This new found wealth enabled the Vellalas in general to morph into a dominant land owning elite with ritual and political control. Eventually their portion of the total Tamil population of the densely populated Jaffna peninsula rose from a mere 8% to over 50%. Upwardly mobile families of people belonging to other castes also eventually associated them with the Velllala identity according the priniples of Sanskritisation.
This period also saw the dispersal of Vellala lineages across the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka.
During the British colonial period in Sri Lanka which began with the capture of the entire island nation and its unification by Great Britain in 1815, Vellalas began to look for education as the new opportunity to upgrate their livelihoods. Various christan missionaries had made the Tamil dominated Jaffna peninsula as the best location in all of Asia for English education in the 19 th century. Many Vellala families used this opportunity to educate their children and they provided the bulk of the British colonial civil servants in Sri Lanka and in British held Malaysia and Singapore. Slavery was also abolished in 1855 by the British colonial authorities, thus making agriculture less profitable.
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Pfaffenberger, Bryan (1985). 'Vellalar domination'. Man 20 (1): 158.
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 10 Oct 2008 02:52:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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A job less goolankan Lottery visa guy is worried with colapsing markets...he can get back to his kasippu business in sri lanka
LOL :))) Even Ponnaseka got the Lottery visa:)))Why didn't he apply for a regular immigrant visa through the proper American Immigration system? Is he a university graduate or just G.C.E (O/L) :)))
I heard Mahinda failed O/L math in the Merdamulane Mahavidyalaya but finally he went to law college with the quota for parliamentarians. Why on earth, Sri Lanka gives college or university admission quotas to Parliamentarians. Does that mean, they go to universities after elected to the parliament of Sri Lanka?
Edited By - Thivya - 10 Oct 2008 02:52:52 GMT |
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 10 Oct 2008 02:54:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Eelamaya,
We do not care whether tamil people lived 1000 years or 2000 years or 1 Billon years ago. What people care is stop the god dang suicide bombings and live peacefully.
Let us set that our main focus. Brainwash people and use innocent civilians as a suicide bombers is a sin.
Why praba would not do suicide himself in the first place? He is afraid to die, if he is afraid to die, he has to realize other people also afriad to die. That is how he has to think, but if he is a physco path, cannot help, that does not mean you are a physco path, so do not follow him. Understand! |
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 10 Oct 2008 02:56:01 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thivya,
Is he a university graduate or just G.C.E (O/L) :)))
If he were a GCE OL, that may be why he is whacking the living daylights off the 3rd grade dropout Velzupizza...
:)))
Edited By - Nacholibre - 10 Oct 2008 02:56:44 GMT |
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One in four Lankans suffer from mental illness
Cases of depression on the rise: Ramani PREMATILLEKA BOGODA
There has been a high incidence of depression among both young and old mental patients according to a survey by the Health Ministry Mental Health Services Division, Director Hiranthi de Silva. -Daily News
This is the problem with many in LNP as well. We have prime examples here -- peacemakerSri, Konnappu, rask, Sinthaka, mahavansayam, Aussie... just to name a few!
Edited By - EEELamaya - 10 Oct 2008 02:59:05 GMT |
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 10 Oct 2008 02:59:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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One in four Lankans suffer from mental illness
And the main Illness person is in Vanni and trying from 30 years...:-) |
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10 Oct 2008 03:00:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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I heard Mahinda failed O/L math in the Merdamulane Mahavidyalaya but finally he went to law college with the quota for parliamentarians
Didn't you hear the qualification of SUN GOD...? :-) |
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10 Oct 2008 03:01:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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We have prime examples -- peacemakerSri, Konnappu, rask, Sinthaka, mahavansayam, Aussie... just to name a few!
I don't know about the others, but yes I'm mad. |
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 10 Oct 2008 03:02:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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Eeelamaya,
That is why we are saying that Tamils were there for thousands of years! Tamils eventually established their own kingdoms and ruled the NE and eventually reaching Kandy and becoming the King there as well!
Yes but it does not mean you can ask for a separate state.. these were just invasions, also knowing the fact that the majority of the Tamils live in Tamil Nadu therefore you should know that your roots are in Tamil Nadu and you will never be able to establish a separate state in a another country whom you are the minority.. take the quebec referendum for example the whole country went into an referendum asking if quebec should be separate from Canada but the quebecors lost, and they excepted that happily. Unlike the LTTE they did not go taking up arms if they did Canada would have used the same tactics that Sri Lanka used to put down terrorism.. |
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