Eela Tamilans live in Eelam and are Tamilans.
Eelam is not a recent invention, as you may think. It is an ancient Tamil word to refer to the island known as Sri Lanka today.

Yes Sinhalas are multi-ethnic, our Devinda Ferrnando is a proof, he is Portuguese.

Cheers.

BTW where is Eela Tamilan, is is some where in Tamil Nadu because there is no place like that in Sri Lanka.

They are lot of ignorants commenting here. Tamils as Sinhalas, but Sinhalas are the most racist no doubt when reading this discussion.

Yes Sinhalas are indigenious, like Tamils and Veddhas.
But Sinhalas under the influence of Vijaya and Thero Mahinda, adopted a Pali based Indo-European language that is unique and only exist in Sri Lanka, but Sinhalas are not ‘Aryans’ at all.
And Sinhala language borrowed lot of Tamil words, at least 4000, thats well known. Sinhala language is a mixture as the Sinhala people are. More than 65% of Sinhala gene pool is South Indian Tamil. I wonder why.. This is a fact and is the total reflection of the royal lineage link between Sinhala and South Indian. Vijaya, a Bengali and the first Sinhala, married a Tamil princess from Madurai. Lot of Sinhala Kings married South Indian princess.

But if we stick to the Mahawamsa, when Vijaya arrived, there was two ethnic people on the island, respectively Nagas and Yakkas. I identify the Nagas as Tamils and the Yakkas as Veddhas. The Greeks on their maps clearly show temples that are now identified as the five Hindu Eeshwarams existing when Vijaya came.

Simply as the fact show, Tamils and Veddhas are the most ancient people of the island, Sinhala became an ethnic community only after 200-300 CE as the Sinhala language was borning and being created trough a long process of assimilation.
Who can deny it ?

The Sinhala racists/ignorants.

This morning i read a hilarious article on the washingtontimes , an article written by the Sri Lankan Ambassador, a Sinhala. He stated that there was not a Tamil traditional homeland in Sri Lanka, but that Sri Lanka was a 2500 years old civilization (referring to the so-called Sinhala civilization)… This is the type of misinformation and brainwashing that western newspapers are allowing for their own purpose.

Also please note that however Sinhalas are indigenious and unique to Sri Lanka, but often greedy and racist denying the harmonic relationship between ancient Sinhala Kings and Tamils. SL Tamils are indigenious and unique to Sri Lanka. The spoken Tamil in Sri Lanka and India are different. The food are different. SL Tamils and Sinhalas share 55% of common gene.

Only racists will deny that there was a good relationship between Sinhalas and Tamils in ancient time. When the racist and greedy Western people put their stinking a55 on our soil, it changed, they divided us and made us FOOLS and STUPIDS.

Thanks, with love for all Sri Lankans, a Eela Tamilan.

With reference to the post #104 above, the part written by Thusha ranavakka is nothing but bull crap. For example, he/she says, the Tamils do not have ruling power. What nonsense. From the known (written) history itself, we know the number of Tamil Kings who ruled not to mention the last four Kings of Kandy were Tamils from the Nayakkar family in Madurai.

It is ONLY after the British unified Sri Lanka (1833) into one state and handed it over to the majority, the Tamils lost their ruling power.

*****If they have an opportunity to leave form Sri Lanka, they will leave certainly, can anyone disagree this point? *****

If the Sinhalese have the same opportunity to leave Sri Lanka to a developed country, not even one will stay back. Tens of thousands of Sinhalese women are going to Mid-east as slaves; just imagine if they get to go to a developed country to settle down?

*****We don’t care about lion involved in History because we are not animals as you. We are great race and we have great religion. *****

OK, let’s forget this animal (half Lion) story and see the other side which this person is saying.

Two thousand five hundred years ago a group of around 700 convicts (criminals and thugs) including their leader Vijay (the founder/forefather of Sinhalese) from the city of Sinhapura in Bengal, India were exiled from that country by loading them in a boat. These boat people (Kallathonis) landed in the Island Lanka which was already populated by people. These thugs and criminals, as soon as they landed (invaded) Lanka, they forcefully occupied the land which belonged to those innocent people who were living there.

Even today they have not changed, they are doing exactly what they did when they arrived 2500 years ago. The Sinhala thugs and criminals have not only forcefully occupied the Tamil land (Northeast) but they were also plundering, looting, raping, and killing (burning alive) the Tamils right from 1956, just 8 years after the so called independence.

But our majority brother/sister Thusha ranavakka says, they are not animals, they are a GREAT race with a great religion.

Let me comment on what Gamini Iriyagolla says.

Regarding his credentials, Civil Servant, scholar, Lawyer, Patriot, etc in my opinion he was an Educated Fool, a Pseudo-Scholar, and a Charlatan.

What Thusha ranavakka has cut and pasted from the Daily News article here are arguments (or opinions) that have been analyzed, dissected and nullified by so many people in the past on numerous occasions. By moronically repeating those arguments which passed their use by dates ages ago, he/she becomes a laughing stock.

Let me take the last part as an example.

*****And, if in fact Tamils were the original inhabitants, how come they all chose to live in a barren, harsh and inhospitable area, leaving the fertile land to ‘Sinhala Kallathonis’? *****

What an idiotic statement the above is. During the ancient period, the civilization in Sri Lanka took place in the North and North-central (Anuradapura) region. The so called fertile land in the South was a thick jungle. The Tamils occupied areas North and East starting from Anuradapura which was the country’s first civilization and they were also closer to the land which shares the same culture, language and religion.

In the 17th centuries, when Robert Knox, the English prisoner in the Kingdom of Kandy made his escape through Anuradhapura into the Dutch occupied Northwest, he found that, fluent though he was in Sinhala, he could not converse with the inhabitants of the Anuradhapura region as the people there spoke a different language (Tamil).

Even today, there are Tamil sounding names (villages and zones) in Anuradhapura district.

The fight between Elara and Dutu Gamunu is written as Singhala Tamil war, even though soldiers of both ethnicities fought on both sides irrespective of which race their kings were. Srilankan historians refer to any invasion from Pandian dynasty as friendly intervention and treat invasion by Chola dynasty as hostile. It was also known that Pandian mercenaries called Velakara padayhal were used by Singhalese kings as their body guards.

All these points to the fact that historical enmity is not racial, but clashes of dynasties. Shifting from feudal command to a representative authority through parliament required political parties to clash by ideology, race and any other division that one can find. So they made such divisions that were only among dynasties transferred to the people. Now we are looking for an identity in history which is not only unnecessary but also a hindrance for economic growth and prosperity.

LOL! Is there some International Law that entitles All Ethnic Groups to have their own country? If so someone forgot to tell the Palestinians, the American Indians, the Aboriginees, the Kurds, the many thousands of African ehtnic groups… the Eskimo Indians in Canada, etc etc etc…..

Of course not! It is unfortunate that Tamils dont have their own country, but that fact simply does nto justify taking Sri Lanka,..why dont you go get your own country in Tamil Nadu,…? there are more Tamils there, we are not going to let you take Sri Lanka, and I would have hoped 25 years of fighting has demonstrated our resolve….

*****Obviously you have no idea what Sarcasm is guess Eelamists don’t have that word in their Dictionary?*****

Don’t you think, being sarcastic is better than being a low life scavenger who uses third grade language in a public forum?

*****Colonization? The country was united, therefore any one as a Sri Lankan citizen was allowed to go there Colonization? This is precisely when people like you use these stigmatized words to imply sinister motives and spread Separatism and racial divides.*****

Are you pretending not to know the difference between a large scale government sponsored colonization of Sinhalese in Tamil lands and Tamils settling in the South by purchasing lands/houses with their hard earned money?

*****Tamils moving to the South, IS THAT COLONIZATION? Oh no, we Sinhalese don’t seem to mind Tamils making the most of the Island, but for Sinhalese to do the same is COLONIZATION.*****

Due to the Centralized Unitary constitution, Tamils have no alternative but to come to Colombo for employment. If it was a Decentralized Federal constitution like in countries with a civilized majority, the Tamils need not come to the South.
The Tamils were not colonized in the South by any Government, they bought lands and settled.

*****Pathetic! Absolutely Pathetic! So then what were Indian Tamils doing in the Center? Colonizing? *****

The British colonized Indian Tamils in the Center (Tea estates) because the Sinhalese were lazy, they were not willing to work hard in those estates.

*****So are you saying you people were genetically superior to us? *****

When and where did I say that? No, I am not saying so.

*****Or is it that the reason the British favored you with the Government Jobs and as a Minority was because you liked to brown nose their white buttocks? Which is it? Again its one or the other*****

Since you continue to harp on this colonial issue even after I explained in full, let’s revisit again in more details.

Let’s begin with the Portuguese. When they entered the Jaffna Kingdom, SANKILI KUMARAN II (1617-1619), the King of Jaffna fought against them, he even killed those Tamils who got converted to Christianity , finally the Portuguese captured and killed him.

In the South, some Sinhalese (kondae bandapu moda Appuhamys), who were chewing bulath (betal) and spitting all over the country side, totally uneducated and uncivilized helped the Portuguese and gave their women. The Portuguese gave surnames to the illegitimate children born to those Sinhalese women as Fernando, Perera, Silva, Fonseka, etc and established schools for these children. Due to that all those illegitimate children born to these Sinhalese women got educated, but unfortunately, even today, they do not seem to be civilized. You are the best example.

I have clearly mentioned in my previous posts, who collaborated and bootlicked the British.

Even though there were some Tamils who got converted to Christianity such as SJV Chelva, we lost our Tamil state to the Singalayas at Independence because we Tamils did not have Kalu Suddhas like DS, SWRD, JR, etc who could do to the British what you have said above, poking the nose.

*****And yet you parrot that Tamils were more Hard Working than the Sinhalese?*****

Even after the Sinhalese doing so much to the Portuguese, they clearly identified you people. Think why they did not say, Demalaa Modaya, Kavum Kanna Yodaya?

The Tamils learned English not due to British but due to the arrival of American Missionary to Jaffna. The British did not favor the Tamils, they gave jobs on merit, since the Tamils were well educated, fluent in English and hard working, they got the most.

*****Sinhalese maids going to the Middle East to earn money is bad, granted, but the best any of you Tamils in the North can hope for is to Eascape the LTTE control and come to the south…LOL! once again who is the more pathetic here I ask you?*****

So, according to you, the Arabs exploiting your women, raping and humiliating them is better than the Tamils living under the LTTE control. My foot!

*****Rhetoric and baseless facts… You know it and I know. Show me figures otherwise please keep your stupid mouth shut, as you are removing all doubt as to your credibility.*****

By the way where are you living? Not in this world? The facts and figures are everywhere on the net, there were many TV documentaries as well on Al Jaseera and BBC. Have you not gone to the Dubai or Doha city, go to a Public Toilet in the Airport, the cleaning woman most probably may even be one of your relatives.

*****What? What nonsense… is the Tamil Language not part of the constitution? Is it not taught in Schools? On the Money and passports…you ungrateful scum.*****

Do you frequently have selective amnesia? Have you heard of something called ‘SINHALA ONLY’? Why does the government send appointment letters to Jaffna in Sinhala?

*****Power sharing? What do you mean? Can a Tamil not do anything a Sinhalese can in Sri Lanka? Like Ponambalam you are asking for more than your share of power.*****

Again selective amnesia?

Ever since Sri Lanka gained independence the Sinhala Buddhist majority governments oppressed the Tamil minority by discriminating them on language rights, education, employment, and state sponsored colonization.

To understand the meaning of sharing, just education is not enough, you need to get civilized.

*****No, you don’t just speak about your so-called rights, you speak of separation, you encourage the LTTE and their killing sprees then simultaneously put on the Supreme suffering show to the IC to further your agenda. The fact being that Equal rights (as in most countries) can be addressed by peaceful means but you enjoy the fact that an armed resistance gives the Sinhalese hell and then you tell them that the only way out is for Sri Lanka to give them what they want. You are Hypocrites and Racists of the worse kind.*****

Do you accept that the GOSL is a state terrorist not now but right from 1958, they sponsored each and every anti Tamil riots to suppress the Tamils from peaceful Gandhian style protests?

Of course, I do agree with you that the LTTE is a bunch of terrorists and their terrorist acts such as killing innocent civilians should be condemned.

But who created these so called ‘Terrorists’?

The innocent Tamils were always at the receiving end, being attacked many times from ‘56 till ‘83 and the Sinhalese called them ‘cowards’.

The day the Tamils retaliated, the term ‘cowards’ changed into ‘Terrorists’.

Take for example the Jaffna Public Library, consisting of ninety odd thousand volumes was burned down nearly twenty five years ago, on the night of 1st June 1981 by the Sinhalese goons, inspired by the presence in Jaffna of two Sinhalese cabinet ministers of the Sri Lanka government.

Then again, the International Tamil Student Consortium building containing a well equipped library and a Computer lab were set on fire with the support of the state sponsored terrorists, the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers.

Burning of libraries, newspaper offices and bookshops belonging to Tamils (not to mention burning of Tamil humans in the Sinhala riots of 1958 and 1983) has become an interesting pastime for the GOSL.

Where else in this ‘globalizing world’ are libraries put on fire?

What do we call that?

Terrorism or self defense?

A soldier is suppose to protect the country and its nation but not to harass, detain, torture, rape, kill, bombard and destroy a section of the country and its own nation just because a small part of them turned into terrorists.

The soldiers in Sri Lanka are a special breed, extremely racist, highly undisciplined, and non Tamil speaking (Sinhala) armed forces forcefully occupying the traditional Tamil areas.

Let me ask you,
Will you be happy if an extremely racist, highly undisciplined, and non Sinhala speaking group of soldiers armed to the teeth roam around in your village/home town and harass, detain, torture, rape and kill your people.

How long will it take for the Sinhalese youth to take up arms to fight them?

The enormous degree of immunity granted to the Sri Lankan armed forces by the GOSL has led to harassment, illegal detention, torture, disappearances, extra judicial killings, and rape of innocent Tamils forcing more and more young Tamils to take up arms for a liberation struggle.

Remember,
The LTTE is the direct consequence of the Sinhala Buddhist policy to refuse to share the wealth/political power, and instead suppress legitimate Tamil rights by violent means.

I like to indicate an important point. Sinhalese people have ruling power a nation. Tamils don’t have. Tamils don’t have power to make an own government. Tamils can live everywhere in this world but Sinhalese not like that.

More than half Tamils left form Sri Lanka. Tamils who lives in Sri Lanka now, they don’t have money and chance to leave from Sri Lanka. If they have an opportunity to leave form Sri Lanka, they will leave certainly, can anyone disagree this point?
Why?

The reason is Sri Lanka not a home land for Tamils.
Human developed from monkey. We don’t care about lion involved in History because we are not animals as you.
How many militant groups in Tamils? Thousand of them killed each other like
animals. Can you disagree?
You have ugly cast system, those are the ruling power of you. That’s enough for
you. Don’t dream more.
We are great race and we have great religion . I don’t hate Tamils but Tamils need
to know about the reality. We are all Sri Lankan anyway.

Thusha
Origin of the Sinhala race
Daily News-Wed Oct 29 2003

I refer to the several letters appearing in your columns on the above subject. According to late Gamini Iriyagolla, (Civil Servant, scholar, Lawyer, Patriot and one who was deeply involved in the so-called “ethnic issue” and presented irrefutable historical facts and startling arguments to explode, among others, the myth of the ‘traditional Tamil homelandmconcept), ‘There is a history but not of the Tamils…. Even C. Rasanayagam, in his heavily Tamil-biased ‘Ancient Jaffna’ (1926), admits, ‘that Jaffna was occupied by the Sinhalese earlier than by the Tamils is seen not only in the place names of Jaffna but also is some of the habits and customs of the people’

According to H.W. Codrington, in his book ‘Ancient Land Tenure and Land Revenue in Ceylon-1938, ‘The colonization of Jaffna by the Tamils cannot be of extreme antiquity.’ Such place names as exist, and they are not a few, are not pre-medieval,… records the presence of Sinhalese in the peninsula in the 15th century.

In the several letters and the subsequent booklet he (Mr. Iriyagolla) had published on this issue, he says that the Tamils who are mostly descendants of Malayalese, is a racial group composed of different ethnic entities and speaking a common language, such as Tamils from Coromandel coast, Paravars who came during the Portuguese and Dutch periods as pearl divers, soldiers and fishermen, Kalingas from Orissa and Anthra Pradesh, Mukkuwas from Malabar coast, Arabs and other Muslims from South India and Portuguese who were given land grants and settled in Jaffna between 1619 and 1658. To this list must be added Tamils brought by the Dutch for tobacco cultivation in Jaffna. Such a diverse group, though welded together by a common religion and language, has no ‘historic’ or ‘Traditional homelands’

To get over this embarrassing impasse, the crafty Tamil leaders struggling for top places in Sri Lanka had to invent a spurious claim to convince their followers. Hence the blatant falsification of historical facts, which, alack and alas, received State support when the teaching of our glorious history was treacherously withdrawn.

If in deed the Tamils had a “glorious past”, as proclaimed by racist Tamils, they should be able to produce proof at least of one single irrigation system they had built in or outside Jaffna; not the ones their invading brethren had destroyed from time to time.

And, if in fact Tamils were the original inhabitants, how come they all chose to live in a barren, harsh and inhospitable area, leaving the fertile land to ‘Sinhala Kallathonis’?

***It is human nature that every nation, race or religion believes that they are the best and superior to all others. In your case, it is the opposite. ***
Obviously you have no idea what ‘Sarcasm’ is…I guess Eelamists don’t have that word in their Dictionary…?
***Now, what makes you think that I am a Kotiya? If a Tamil speaks about his rights, if he talks about his traditional home land, if he speaks about his past history, he is immediately branded as a Kotiya. More and more Kotiyas are being created day after day by foolish Sinhalese of your type.***
No, you don’t just speak about your so-called rights, you speak of separation, you encourage the LTTE and their killing sprees then simultaneously put on the Supreme suffering show to the IC to further your agenda. The fact being that Equal rights (as in most countries) can be addressed by peaceful means but you enjoy the fact that an armed resistance gives the Sinhalese hell and then you tell them that the only way out is for Sri Lanka to give them what they want. You are Hypocrites and Racists of the worse kind.
****Just because the East came under the Kandyan (Sinhalese) Kingdom does not mean that the East was a Sinhala area. ***
Therefore you agree with me…. It does not make it a “Tamil Area” either,…I am not the one claiming exclusivity for Sinhalese, I say All Sri Lankans should be allowed to go anywhere, live anywhere, etc,…. yet you are doing that for Tamils…. But it is LTTE apologists and Tamil Nationalists like you who try to claim it as a Tamil Homeland to further your Separatist agenda… Pick a side, one or the other,… you cant have it both ways.
*** Can you find even one Sinhala person or family that claimed the Eastern province habitancy or origin? All those Sinhalese who live in the Eastern province today are those settled by the DS Senanayake government after the independence (1948) under the colonization scheme. ***
Colonization? The country was united, therefore any one as a Sri Lankan citizen was allowed to go there… Colonization? This is precisely when people like you use these stigmatized words to imply sinister motives and spread Separatism and racial divides. Pathetic! Absolutely Pathetic! So then what were Indian Tamils doing in the Center? Colonizing? Tamils moving to the South…IS THAT COLONIZATION? Oh no, we Sinhalese don’t seem to mind Tamils making the most of the Island, but for Sinhalese to do the same is “COLONIZATION” Do you even realize what a Donkey you sound like using that word Colonization?
.***It is a very clear fact that the colonial bootlikers or Colonial Lackies were actually the Sinhalese (kalu suddhas) and NOT the Tamils.***
??? And yet you parrot that “Tamils were more Hard Working than the Sinhalese?” phrase…. So are you saying you people were genetically superior to us? Or is it that the reason the British favored you with the Government Jobs and as a Minority was because you liked to brown nose their white buttocks? Which is it? Again its one or the other…..
***Tens of Thousands of young Sri Lankan women (90% SINHALESE) are slaving in the Middle East and they have absolutely no hope of getting back to a better situation in their homeland. So desperate the country is, more and more young Sinhala women are going out to earn by selling their morals and bodies. ***
LOL! You have no idea what is going on in the Wanni….? You think it is some Paradise Utopian society? Who is suffering more as a percentage of their ethnic group? You think grandmothers doing weapons drills and children learning to lay mines is your path to success for Tamils? You think forced Conscription, taxation without representation and brutal fascism without hope for ever leaving? Even with the Tamils getting the majority of the Refugee visas how can they escape the LTTE controlled areas? Sinhalese maids going to the Middle East to earn money is bad, granted, but the best any of you Tamils in the North can hope for is to Eascape the LTTE control and come to the south…LOL! once again who is the more pathetic here I ask you?
*** Today, the economy (earnings) of our country depends mainly on this slave trade, exporting the Sri Lankan women as Nannies, House Maids and Cleaners to the Arab world, selling them for just a hundred US dollars a month, to be raped and humiliated. ***
Rhetoric and baseless facts… You know it and I know. Show me figures otherwise please keep your stupid mouth shut, as you are removing all doubt as to your credibility.
***We are asking the Sinhalese right from Independence, respect the minorities, respect their language without forcing an alien language down their throats, ***
What? What nonsense… is the Tamil Language not part of the constitution? Is it not taught in Schools? On the Money and passports…you ungrateful scum.
***First of all, I have no respect for GGP, he was a hypocrite. Regarding his 50 for Sinhalese and 50 for all other minorities has no logic. What he should have asked for was 50:50 equal rights. ***
Power sharing? What do you mean? Can a Tamil not do anything a Sinhalese can in Sri Lanka? Like Ponambalam you are asking for more than your share of power.