Tamils Duped Sri Lanka Too!

At last Canada realized that Canadians have been duped by Tamils with their bad luck stories. How familiar? http://www.torontosun.com/comment/editorial/2010/08/21/15098871.html

Sri Lankans, however, are still grappling with Tamils’ duping them for close to a century with absurd allegations, sadistic nonsense, racist rubbish and usual bad luck stories. Yet Sri Lankan leaders don’t have the courage to openly denounce Tamil-only grievances, Tamil-only aspirations and Tamil-only homelands decisively. All these excuses were used to indulge in racist politics as in Tamil Nadu and rob others’ fair share of parliamentary representation, university opportunities, government jobs and what not.

At the 2010 General Election held under peaceful conditions, Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) – a Tamil race based party by definition – obtained a mere 233,190 votes but won 14 seats. However, all other parties that won seats received 7,644,696 votes but were allocated only 211 seats. In other words, Tamil race-based ITAK could win a seat with just 16,656 votes whereas the other parties toiled with 36,230 votes to win a seat! While Tamil racist political parties win seats more than twice easily than other parties, they misuse this apartheid privilege to promote Tamil racism – Tamil grievances, Tamil homelands, Tamil aspirations and Tamil Elam.

However the tragedy of Sri Lanka doesn’t end there. The very same disparity is observed in university admissions too. Although Sri Lankan Tamils were 12.5% of the population in 1981, their percentage in taxpayer funded universities exceed 35% in medicine, engineering, computer science, quantity surveying, etc. On the other hand, money to run the universities and governance structures including the parliament is taxpayer-funded and tax is collected uniformly across all ethnic communities. Why do the poor Sinhalese, Muslims and Upcountry Tamils have to put up with a disproportionate tax burden which is of no benefit to them? This is daylight robbery.

The most ludicrous Tamil bogus claim that duped a sizable number of Sri Lankans and the world is their claim of Tamil traditional homelands within the island of Sri Lanka. Tamil homeland is none other than Tamil Nadu – India where everything Tamil is born and where over 80% of world Tamil population reside. Tamil is the only community in the world that has claimed two traditional homelands so far – one in India and the other in Sri Lanka.

Although Tamils live in almost every country, they don’t let persons of any other ethnicity live in Tamil majority areas. Tamil Nadu is the least diverse state of India with over 96% being Tamils. Same goes for Jaffna, Mulaitivu, Kilinochchi, Mannar, Vavuniya and Batticaloa districts of Sri Lanka where previous Sinhala and Muslim habitants were killed and chased away completely. Today the Tamil percentage of these districts range from 90%-100%. However, the Tamil population in Sinhala majority areas have shot up drastically in the past few decades. When Tamils settle in Colombo it is called exercising their right to live in any part of Sri Lanka but when a Sinhalese think of settling down in Jaffna or Vanni or Trincomlaee or Ampara or Batticaloa it is called colonization!

Tamils have businesses in all 25 districts of Sri Lanka but Sinhalas and Muslims are prevented from doing business in Tamil majority districts.

Tamils are in every taxpayer funded university of the country but Sinhalas are prevented from going to the Jaffna university, which is, ironically, funded mostly by Sinhala taxpayers.

Since 1923 Tamils continuously followed ultra racist political policies in Sri Lanka with race-based political parties including All Ceylon Tamil League, All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Illankai Tamil Arse Kachchi, Tamil United Liberation Front, Tamil National Alliance, etc., but blame the Sinhalese for racism and chauvinism! For the information of who make this hilarious allegation, there was only one Sinhala race-based party that won a seat in an elections since 1947 whereas Tamil racist parties always won the majority Tamil vote in the North and the East. And in Tamil Nadu, India too. Tamil Nadu, India and North and East of Sri Lanka account for over 41 Tamil/Dravida racist political parties. It is a world record for any ethnic community.

That’s not all. When Tamil Tigers killed thousands of unarmed mainly Sinhala civilians hundreds of kilometres from the battle zone for no reason, it was not at all a crime, according to Tamils. However, when Tamil Tigers, unable to face the army, trapped and killed Tamil civilians to get world attention, it was called war crimes and blamed on the government!

Tamils have shown their extreme ungratefulness to all nations and political parties. During 1970-77 the government imposed strict exchange control and encouraged local agricultural produce. The main beneficiaries of this were Tamils. In addition, illegal trade between Tamil Nadu and Jaffna while import restrictions were imposed elsewhere made Tamils very rich. However how did they say thank you? By further going down to Tamil racist politics. In 1976 an ultra racist resolution was passed (and later put into action) to wipe out the entire Sinhala and Muslim populations from the North.

From 2001-04 the UNP government did yeoman service to Tamils in the North and East by bringing a temporary peace to these areas at a grave risk of losing support elsewhere. How did the Tamils say thank you? By not voting for the UNP in both 2004 and 2005! Rajapakshas are yet to learn this lesson. When they eventually learn it, things would be beyond repair. If the Northern Provincial Council election is held, the government will know for sure that they have been pouring money on a black hole. North and East development must take place. There is no doubt about that. However, North-East development must be tied to ethnic integration. With development, the population composition of the North and the East must be changed from present day Tamil only to multiethnic. If northern development benefits only Tamils and not others, ultimately there will not be any gain for the nation.

As a matter of priority, the government must adopt a fast-track ethnic integration scheme based on creating new multiethnic settlements in the North backed by the military stationed there. The north must become multiethnic at the same pace it develops. Otherwise we are again going to see what happened during the British time, Sirima Bandaranaike’s time and Ranil Wickramasinghe’s time. Development without ethnic integration in the North breeds Tamil racism.

An essential proviso must be added to the above. The word ‘Tamil’ was used not to categorise all Tamils. As any other community, the Tamil community too has more good people than bad. The word ‘Tamil’ was used to identify only those Tamils who use ‘Tamilness’, Tamil and ‘being Tamil’ to extort favours from others. A rule of thumb to differentiate Tamil racists and good Tamils is their attitude towards Sinhala settlements in the North. If a Tamil opposes Sinhala settlements in the North for whatever reason, he is a Tamil racist. Similarly if a Sinhalese opposes Sri Lankan Tamils settling in the South, he is a Sinhala racist. It is a simple test that works perfectly. It is a foolproof test of commitment to peace and ethnic harmony.

Canadians came to know how Tamil racist elements duped them with bad luck stories and fairy tales from hell. When will Sri Lanka learn?