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In my personal view, war is not the way to solve the problem in this country.

So all your babbling about 'Srilankan' ID was really about SB ID! You are just another majoritarian tyrant with a different name heh:))

Mahawansam itself says that Ellalan fought with a Sinhala King. So, it is clear that there was a kingdom for Tamils ruled by Elallan.

They said, that the Sinhalese were Aryans from North India and the Tamils were Dravidians from South India.
The Tamils, on the other hand, argued that they were indigenous, with the North and the East as their traditional homeland. They also contended that they were part and parcel of the ancient Tamil culture of South India and had little or nothing to do with the Sinhalese who lived in the rest of the island.
But renowned Sri Lankan historians and archaeologists like K Indrapala, Sriyan Deraniyagala, Leslie Gunawardena and Sudarshan Seneviratne, contend that Sri Lanka has been multi-ethnic and multi-cultural from prehistoric times.
They add that both the Sinhalese and the Tamils are from the same South Indian-Sri Lankan (SISL) gene pool. They reject the mass migration or invasion theory so popular among colonial and post-colonial historians.
They say that people, cultures, languages, religions, artifacts and technologies moved in small ways from place to place over long periods of time. And these movements have not always been in one direction, as many seem to think.
Sure, there have been invasions, but invasions have not been the dominant mode of movement, they say. Trade, cultural, religious and political movements and linkages have played a more important role in social transformation than military conquests or mass migration.
Sri Lankan and Indian historians like Romila Thapar also reject the theory of the displacement or annihilation of local populations by foreign ethnic groups. There has been 'language replacement' but rarely ever physical annihilation or replacement of populations, they say.
In his seminal work, The Evolution of an Ethnic Identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka: C 300 BCE to C 1200 BCE (The South Asian Studies Centre, Sydney 2005, Prof. K. Indrapala says the present-day territories of Sri Lanka and South India comprised a single region in which the pre-historic ancestors of the modern Sri Lankans and South Indians roamed freely with the sea dividing the two land masses acting as a unifier rather than a divider.
The Tamils have been in the island of Sri Lanka since long.
'The earliest inscriptions and the early Pali chronicles attest to the presence of the Tamils (Damedas/Damelas) in the EIA (Early Iron Age),' says Indrapala.
'The Demedas in Sri Lanka in the centuries BCE (Before Common Era or AD) need not, therefore, be considered as outsiders,' Indrapala says.
The Ila (or Hela or Sila as the ancient Sri Lankan inhabitants were known) moved back and forth between Sri Lanka and South India just as the Demeda or Demela (Tamils) did. 'The idea of looking upon the Demedas as aliens was surely not prevalent in the Early Historical Period (EHP).
-http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2007/11/21637_space.html

Sinhalese Buddhism is the foundation of Sri Lanka.

Once whole Sri Lanka was a Sinhalese Buddhist country.

There is only a fine line between Sinhalese & Tamils considering the fact that 70% of Sinhalease genes are Tamils & 55% Sri Lankan Tamils have Sinhalese genes.

It is one race and only a matter of which language you speak.

here we go around the mulberry bush...mulberry bush...mulberry bush...

Yesterday, 150 mothers lost their sons, Many Children lost their Fathers....who wants to hear these stories.

Mahadev, You are in Sri Lanka, you know the pulse of Sinhlese better than any other Tamil in this forum.

The overwhelming feeling in my community is that no peace is possible with VP

That is history you can t change unfortunately.