if sri lankan tamils have no right to live in sri lanka how about americans and aussies?

Question

if tamils in sri lanka came to the country in 1000ad and being chased back to india? and is accepted by sihaleese then the aussies and americans who came as imigrants to those countries, will they accept this whay wont those countries speek for the tamils?

Answer 1

FRAGINAL-NOYPI AKO, did u know that you did not even understand the question asked by the asker? He was saying that Americans are immigrants to America(non-natives) and so are the Australians. you, obviously did not read the q properly

Skyblue, Jack o
i take issue with both of ur statements. First of all, Its the Tamils who are the natives of this island. and Not the Sinhala people. Ask any informed history professor and he would say the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_words_of_Tamil_origin

Tamils belong to the Dravidian people. The Dravidians have been living in south as its native people. whereas the Sinhalese(who came to srilanka only in the 6th century bc) were of aryan people. they were NOT the original inhibitants of India or south asia. They came from the central asian region and moved into india at around 1800 bc . and then to srilankan in the 6th century bc. Tamils have been living here for millenia.

the very fact that there have been many archaeological findings(especially of burial urns) that have corroborated the fact that Tamils lived here LONG before the Sinhalese came to this island. so by any means this island rightfully belongs to the thamils.

add to this the fact that the ealiest known name for this island comes from the Tamil literature of "Tolkappiyam"(3rd century bc) which states that one of the poets whos works are included in the book is "Eelathu poothanthevanar"

Eelathu Poothanthevanar" = Poothanthevanar from Eelam.
Eelam is the tamil name for this Island

This island always had at least 2 kingdoms. many times more than 2. It was NEVER a single country till the British colonized it and merged the two administrative sections for efficiencies sake!!

when the British left the srilankan Tamils, who fought for independence from British agreed that the country should be unified into a single country. cos they believed that Tamils and sinhalese could live together. they were so wrong.

the sinhalese resented the fact that the Tamils were Very highly educated, and were overwhelmingly prominent in business as well.

when the British left, the sinhalese brought laws that said "sinhala would be the only national language"!! this country is a "sinhala buddhist" country. and Tamil has no place in this

All the Tamils, who worked so hard for independence from the British were devastated, by this cowardly backstabbing by the very people they had helped!.

overnight, tamils became second class citizens in their own land!. Tamils who did not know sinhalese were kicked from their jobs.

Huge anti Tamil pogroms and riots broke out all over the country.thousands of Tamils lost their lives, their livelihoods, and their belongings. they houses and businesses were burnt and they were butchered on sight!

they protested peacefully, and the protesters were set upon by bloodthirsty sinhalese mobs and many lost their lives there.

the riots happened again and again in 1956, 1958, 1968, 1971, 1977, 1983 and 1987

more than 75% of Tamils have becomes refugees because of this. tens of thousands of Tamils have lost their lives to these riots, to carpet bombing of villages and temples by the srilankan airforce, to kidnapping, to torture and to assassinations

the tamils had the best library in all of south asia.Housing all their rarest of books and literature(tamil is one of the 8 classical languages in the world and has an unbroken literary tradition going back at least 2500 years). this library, the symbol of tamil pride and history was burnt to the ground

tamil students (even though tamils were only 20% in the new state) made up to around 70% of the engineering and medical students in the srilankan universities. the srilankan government brought a new law that said "tamils have to get FAR higher scores to get into the universities than the sinhalese students , for the exact same exam!!!)

this blatant act, on top of countless other actions by the government finally forced Tamil youth to ask for their rightful land. this has led to the civil war that continues to this day

and most of the western nations simply dont care about this(even though, the UN, Amnesty international, Human rights watch and many other non-governmental organizations around the world) had condemned the srilankan government for their human rights abuses.

but this had fallen on deaf ears as the average sinhalese is not literate enough to see through the "religio-ethnic" propaganda spewn from the mouth of the buddhist monks.

some links on this issue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tamil_eelam...

anti tamil pogroms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_july...

state terrorism in srilanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_terro...

17 international aid workers killed b the srilankan military. The UN demanded an inquiry but the inquirey was hushed up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/47...

just one example out thousands-the fate of a tamil family in the hands of the srilankan army..be forwarned. :(((((
http://www.tamilnation.org/indictment/co...


if you have any further doubts or questions pls feel free to email me or add it as a comment to ur original question. ill be happy to answer your questions.


and isn't it hilarious that somehow the Tamils who were living in the Indian subcontinent for millenia(its the Dravidians who built the great Indus valley civilization) were somehow unable to cross the straits(only 20 miles wide) to srilanka ? hahaha

Indus valley artifacts have been found in Egyptian tombs and in Sumerian cities. So they had seafaring ships traversing thousands of miles of Ocean yet were apparently unable to cross 20 miles? LOL.

And the Sinhala language itself , even though its an Indo-European language has So many core Tamil words, showing the extent to which it has been influenced by Tamil.

The sinhalese words for
"mother"
father"
"elder sister"
"younger sister"
"uncle"
"cousin"
"grandmom"
"brother in law"

are Tamil words!! any language, thats been so influenced by another to the extent that it uses words from another language for the closest of Kinship terms is a prime example of being influenced from the start itself by a per-existing language.

The Tamils had their country till the brits colonized the country, and they have every right to have their country back, Especially when they are being subjected to genocide!

PS:FALESTINA

wow! personal attacks huh! what next? sheesh...i would not lower myself by replying in the same manner as you have replied to mine.

And guess what falestina, i did give the reasons for the civil war in srilanka in my answer, did u bother to read?
And, for ur info, I am from that country and i do know whats going on there. so why are u so upset about me telling the truth?

do u deny that thousands of Tamils have been simply made to "vanish" only to be found dead floating on swamps and beaches?

or about the thousands who are displaced and shelled at even when they are at refugee camps?

and not to mention all the tamil journalists(and the tamil member of Parliment) who were killed for speaking out against the government genocide agasint tamil.

and .lol. u claim i dont know about whats going on in srilanka. ROLFMAO!

and finally, as u accused me of being a ltte support and a terrorist in a previous question, i would like to say this.

Im not from some village sown-south In Srilanka where folks like u hang upon every word uttered from the buddhist monks who make up the sinhala-racist JHU and its commie counterparts; the JVP

i went to one of the most prestiges school in Colombo(there are only 2.lol(im not talking about the crappy international schools.lol)) and i tend to look down upon(as any civilised person would) at people who resort to name calling and personal insult.

provide facts to refute what i said. or stop whining pls. and again i reiterate that this is a civilized forum and pls respect it and try to keep it that way.
thanks:)

Answer 2

The point is not that they have no right to live in Sri Lanka, the issue is that they want to have INDEPENDANCE from Sri Lanka, because they are a majority in the North of the country.
The same happened with Pakistan and India (you do know what Pakistan was part of India before), same for Cashmere and Bangladesh.
Same situation in Kosovo, Tchechenia, and the South of the Philippines in Mindanao.
Would you agree if the American Indians said: We are a majority here, this land is ours, and it will be called: The United States of the Original AMerican Indians.
Or if the African Americans of Alabama or Louisiana said: This is ours as we are 90% African Americans here and it will be called: The United States of Black Africans from Louisiana!
If you need to live with your own same minded people do it, but dont try breaking up countries for it.

Answer 3

that's humorous to study this textual content (i dont call it as information) . it so humorous to have self assurance that the ruling activities truly tried to save the killings of chance free tamil human beings. those articles created for the forthcoming elections 2011. i did not know heaven has a which technique of naragam. what makes the lankan tamils chuffed ? is that few bollywood actors lengthy gone to entertain them. is it the reason ? or is that ill and elderly mom of Prabakaran given an visa and on a similar day denied the therapy and deliver back? or the resettlement of Singalese in Norther area ? have you ever study that the representative to visit next month to work out how the rehabilations artwork in progression. do you imagine is it necessary this aspect publicity for an good is going to a procedures a excursion. in the journey that they really want to do somethink truly sensible they can do with none publicity. even after the declare of conflict is over there is not any concreate plan seems to in position. i'm particular that the srilankan tamils at the prompt are not chuffed even in aims as on contemporary days status after reading many information about srilanka. The pretend propoganda will be always there for any activities. the article looks created to lead away from regrouping of the Eelam liberation communities. one yet another issue is being forgotten/left out by ability of our govts, the chance to India particularly to Tamil Nadu is increasing now. we are nevertheless loosing our fisherman. so a procedures no agency step being taken to safegaurd chance free fisherman inspite of the actuality that they are Indians and fishing in Indian/international waters (no longer in srilankan waters). atleaset we ought to always no longer block the pastimes of Eelam Tamils if we received't able help them. Now they lost the religion from tamilnadu brothers and sisters.

Answer 4

What the **** are you talking about.

Who said that tamils in Sri Lanka have no right to live their and they are being chased back to India.

Do you at least know the current situation in Sri Lanka and the origin and the reason and whose behind the civil war?

P.S. - This is for Vandhiyathevan (the poster above me)

Any one with commonsense can see that my answer is intended for the original poster/asker.

This guy has been tormenting me with e-mails….and trashing my user name in yahoo answers, just because my opinion and statements don’t coincide with his.
He is quick to criticize any one that has a different view point than him.
I personally think he is really silly. And I have lost my patience with him now.

Answer 5

Australians and Americans are not doing anything wrong in Sri Lanka. Thus, they cannot be treated as rebels like the Tamils.

Answer 6

Of course they have that right... there is a bigger picture here. It's all about power, corruption and money...