Tamils, Sinhalese, British and Yankees
Posted on June 9th, 2009
A Sri Lankan
Tamils —
How many Tamils are employed in southern Sri Lankan companies? (See the number of high caliber Tamils in Sri Lankan banking sector, see hotel trade, see film trade, see other industries)
Do they experience any hardship professionally due to ethnicity? If so, how come they hold such high positions?
See how many Tamil kids are getting educated in International schools? They have outnumbered other ethnicities.
Royal college has Tamil medium, DS has Tamil medium. So many Sinhala major government schools have Tamil medium and they share equal opportunities. How many Tamil major schools have Sinhala medium?
Private schools like St. Thomas ‘, Trinity etc have quite a large number of Tamil students.
Travel Wellawatte, Dematagoda, Dehiwala, Kotahena etc and see the number of Tamils sharing the comforts.
Go to Pettah market and Fort. Walk along the streets and see how many Tamils are doing business there.
Start from Kotahena and travel passing Dehiwala. Sinhala shops are outnumbered by Tamil traders. I don’t see any hardship put on them.
Get into a bus and listen how many speak in Tamil.
Try to find a single Sinhala board in Wellawatte. All are Tamil and English.
Go to a government campus. Let’s say Colombo campus. See the number of Tamil students. See the number of Tamil lecturers. They share equal opportunities. I never saw them being humiliated except they themselves had divisions saying Batticaloa Tamil, Jaffna Tamil and Upcountry Tamil. They have a separate Tamil Union, their cultural events, their religious events.
How many kovils are there in Colombo ?
See the number of Sinhalese visiting kovils and Tamil shops. Doesn’t it display the harmony?
How many Tamil representatives are in the parliament?
See the number of Tamil youth musicians in Colombo .
Please consider these statistics. If somebody can come up with numbers and percentages, it would reveal the truth. This is what we should call rational. Our generation should not waste time on arguing what’s unknown to us and what’s not experienced by us. Live today, not yesterday.
Jaffna and Trincomalee have ports, heavy industries, bus stations, railway stations, radio and TV broadcasting stations, universities and so many other facilities.
Now Sinhalese
How many Sinhalese are in Northern and Eastern part of Sri Lanka ? (North none, East, 25%)
How many Sinhala medium schools are there in Northern Sri Lanka ? (None)
How many Sinhala employees are in Northern Sri Lankan offices and industries? (None)
How many temples are there in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka ? (One, at Nagadeepa)
Can a Sinhalese travel unharmed in Northern Sri Lanka ? (only now, after the defeat of the LTTE)
How many Sinhalese are in Northern and Eastern universities? (None)
June 9th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Absolutely spot on!
I am sick and tired of the double standards imposed on Sri Lanka by the Western Powers.
What gives them the right to abstain themselves from being responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from Afghanastan to Iraq.
The millitary operation on Iraq started with a barrage of ariel bombardment.
Don’t tell me that there were no civilian casualties that arose from days upon days, weeks upon weeks, months upon months of bombing.
American soldiers were given unprecedented rights to arrest, detain and even kill supposed suspects.
THERE HAVE BEEN MORE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN A FEW YEARS OF AMERICA’S AND ENGLAND’S WAR ON TERROR THAN THE COMBINED NUMBER OF DEATHS (CIVILIANS AND NON CIVILIANS) IN 30 YEARS OF WAR IN SRI LANKA!
Let me emphasise that even a single loss of a civilian life is tragic. If we took the same mind set of the mighty Western Powers we would have probably wiped out all the civilians up North. The numbers would have been astronomical.
So to all you mighty western powers sitting pretty on your high horse…GET OFF IT! GET OFF YOUR BACK! We managed to free 300,000 civilians. The number of casualties amongst civilians could have been drastically reduced had the LTTE not set up bunkers in the NFZ and allowed civilians to pass without the threat of being gunned down.
To all the pony’s that are spoon fed information – Please put that privileged education of yours into action and analyse information before you believe it.
I take a quote from Stephen Long:
“It’s almost as if the “Western Powers” can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that a small, far-away island nation, populated by brown-skinned natives, could be successful in ending a thirty-year terrorist scourge when they can’t do the same in their own struggles, wherever they might be. Granted, the brown-skinned natives didn’t acquiesce to the “Western Powers” demands to cease their fire and allow the terrorists to escape. Also granted, the brown-skinned natives are proud of their victorious accomplishment, and of their President who stood firm against the “Western Powers” ridiculous and duplicitous demands.
I say we all stand up and cry “foul” at the “Western Powers” for their historical, un-avenged murders, and at those who simply stood by and allowed the destruction of millions of innocent lives. I think history, like the mistreated dog, will bite the “Western Powers” on their collective posteriors, while it winds up applauding Sri Lanka for its success against the LTTE terrorists, and its compassionate treatment of the survivors that it made sure were spared and re-settled in their homes.”
Either help Sri Lanka help the IDP’s and rebuild the county or leave us alone. It is simple as that. 30 years of war was more than enough. It is time to move forward and learn from the past. A new era is dawning upon Sri Lanka where all ethnicities can live in peace and harmony with equal rights. This is no longer a dream. It can and will be achieved. When this happens I wonder what will these Western Powers will say?