Apartheid Against Majority Sinhalese
Ronnie
her recent statements which is quoted below attempts to give oxygen to
LTTE by bringing the long forgotten “discrimination issue”again. Quote
“I hope the Government will take this opportunity to tackle the core
problems that have fuelled this conflict, including discrimination and
impunity,” she said Unquote.
Much is written about the discriminated victimized minority Tamils of
Sri-Lanka. It is time some vital statistics are exposed. The truth is
that Tamils are the most privileged minority in the World. Ever since,
Sinhalese and Tamil were made two main official languages and students
sat for their University entrance exams in their mother tongue.
Whereas the Sinhalese examiners marked their students according to
merit their Tamil counterparts gave their students maximum marks so
that they had a clear advantage over their Sinhalese students when it
came to places in the faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Law etc.
As a result, the ratio of Sinhalese to Tamil students in Universities
did not reflect that of the General population. Also, when it comes
to practicals at A Level, Sinhalese students were given faulty
apparatus to do their practicals eventually resulted in more failures
among the Sinhalese students. All high posts in most institutions
were held by Tamils thanks to this British divide and rule policy.
They established missionary schools in the North thereby giving them
an edge over the public school educated Sinhalese down south. Those
holding high office in government services – Income Tax, Health Dept,
Education Dept, Public Service Dept, even the Estate Industry
recruited Tamils far outnumbering majority Sinhalese – A clear case of
apartheid against the majority. However, since the discrimination was
on the majority Sinhalese and that the Tamils could not prove
discrimination, then Tamil discrimination slogan became Tamil
aspirations and then twisted into grievances now.
Tamil Migration
The riots of ’83 started as a result of a massacre of the SL Army by
the Tamil Tiger Terrorists, was a great opportunity for Tamils to
invade Western countries claiming refugee status. A SL doctor –
educated in Colombo and graduating from the Colombo Medical Faculty
and also captaining the SL badminton team, fell at the feet of NZ
parliamentarians tearfully saying “My people are being slaughtered in
Sri-Lanka, please help them”. Thousands of Tamils were given immediate
refugee status in NZ. This went on in Europe, Canada, Australia, US &
UK. The irony of this is that moment these refugees claiming that
their lives are in danger in Sri Lanka and obtained visa, many of them
took the next available flights to Sri Lanka. These so called refugees
enlisted on arrival in their new adopted countries by Tamils living in
those countries and were made to “donate” (a new word for extortion),
a percentage of their income to the LTTE. These funds exceed millions
of dollars from all parts of the world and have been used to purchase
most sophisticated military weaponry, now unearthed in the Vanni by
the courageous forces. Funds are also used to influence various media,
politicians and bankrupt deranged people like a former Sri Lankan
doctor in Brisbane and an associate professor from La Trobe Uni. These
frustrated persons would have been adequately rewarded with dollars by
LTTE for his outrageous vitriolic anti-Sinhalese outbursts. The BBC TV
in a documentary showed murdered “Tamil” civilians in a village
attacked by “SL Army”. The so called “Tamil” civilians were in fact
crying and wailing in Sinhalese!! The LTTE had given the BBC one of
their own videos of their massacre of a Sri-Lankan village and the BBC
had no hesitation in unleashing this on unsuspecting viewers. There is
no media in the world that is not infiltrated by the LTTE.
Tamils Overseas
One of the main sources of income for the LTTE is from their large
fleet of drugs and arms smuggling ships – as exposed by Peter Chalk a
research fellow in the US. Some of them have established contact with
extremists in Tamil Nadu and are known to travel there to make
donations – to keep the pressure on the Indian Central Govt. The
unfortunate killing of journalist Lashantha Wickramatunga was given
worldwide publicity and it was convenient to blame the SL Govt. The
killing of Lakshman Kadiragamar received no such publicity. The
massive spontaneous parades in the Jaffna Peninsula by thousands of
Tamils celebrating the fall of Kilinochchi and the imminent fall of
the self proclaimed “sole representative of the Tamils” – was not
given any publicity in the international media. At the time of writing
this, news is at hand that the forces have captured Mullaitivu and the
“brave” tigers have abandoned first Kilinochchi and now Mullaitavu and
hiding behind the hapless Tamil civilians using them as human shield.
This is a humble appeal to all peace loving Sinhalese, Tamils,
Muslims, Burgher and Malays to unite now to rebuild our beloved
motherland and restore it back to her glory days. This is an appeal to
all politicians to stop their petty politicking and rally around
President Mahinda Rajapakse and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
who have shown great leadership to enable our courageous forces to
achieve what some politicians uttered as the impossible. Let us
recognize the sacrifices by the brave men and women in the forces and
dig deep to support the wounded and assist the families of those who
paid the ultimate price. Let us also think of the Tamil and Sinhalese
and Muslims displaced by the LTTE and the work involved in the re
settling them, getting their children back to school and most of all
learning to live without fear from the monstrous LTTE. Let the world
which ignored the suffering of a small nation now come to rebuild and
recover from 25 years long nightmare.
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_killing_Tamil_Civilians_fleeing_LTTE_Human_Shield_December_2008.asp
THE CIVILIAN MASSACRES CARRIED OUT BY TAMIL TIGER TERRORISTS
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20090221_Kirimetiyawa_Village.asp
http://www.spur.asn.au/Choronology_of_LTTE_Tamil_Tiger_Attacks_on_Passanger_Buses_and_Trains.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20060615_Kebithigollewa_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Suicide_Bomb_Blast_Abhimanpura_Kebitigollewa_20071205.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20070528_Ratmalana_Bomb.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_atrocities_20060529_Welikanda_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Suicide_Bomb_Blast_20071127_Nugegoda.htm
ETHNIC CLEANSING CARRIED OUT BY THE TAMIL TIGER TERRORISTS
http://www.spur.asn.au/ethnic_cleansing_in_sri_lanka.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/chronology_of_suicide_bomb_attacks_by_Tamil_Tigers_in_sri_Lanka.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/After_signing_the_so-called_JM.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Bomb_20080116_Okkampitiya_Monaragala.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/Choronology_of_LTTE_Tamil_Tiger_Attacks_on_Passanger_Buses_and_Trains.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Suicide_Bomb_20080516_Colombo.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Suicide_Bomb_20081006_Janaka_Perara.asp
http://www.spur.asn.au/rajiv.htm