14 Responses to “Examples of discrimination by Sinhalese against Tamils”

1. S.Gonsal Says:
   October 14th, 2016 at 3:03 pm

   Thank you Shenali for painstakingly preparing this list.

   No doubt it is the Sinhalse who have been discriminated and allowed to be discriminated throughout !

   Please tell us what have the Sinhalese done wrong?

   Sinhalese have not done ANYTHING while Tamils cried “discrimination”. Their elected IDIOTS have no gut to say this.
   Other IDIOTS call the silent majority IDIDOTS and support the real IDIOTS regardless of these mistakes.

   STOP supporting ANY IDIOT and you will see the results in ONE MONTH.

2. Charles Says:
   October 14th, 2016 at 3:28 pm

   Thank you Shenali for your ceaseless effort to keep us informed of these ugrateful compatriiots who have failed to understand the continuous undemanding generosity of the Sinhala majority comminity.

3. Dilrook Says:
   October 14th, 2016 at 4:26 pm

   Thank you Shenali.

   What happens in Sri Lanka is Tamils discriminating against Sinhalese while falsely accusing the Sinhalese. This is a profitable Tamil racist extortion racket.

   I personally know some of them and a few Hindus among them are extremely racist. They simply cannot tolerate a Sinhala or Muslim businessman succeeding. In contrast some high profile Muslim businessmen are surprisingly patriotic to Sri Lanka.

   There are many times more Tamil billionaires under the radar. Part of the money they earn goes to fund Tamil racism (TNA, ACTC, etc.).

   The day will not be too far out when Sinhalese are totally evicted from Colombo, Negombo and Kandy too by Tamils.

4. Fran Diaz Says:
   October 14th, 2016 at 5:22 pm

   Our grateful thanks to Shenali for her articles exposing the truth.

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   Yahap govt is bringing in more and more Tamil folk from the so called Refugee Camps in Tamil Nadu. They come in batches of 20-100 or more. Some of them may be genuine refugees, whilst others are not.

   Jayalalitha wanted all the genuine refugees in the camps given INDIAN citizenship, but Delhi has not complied. Delhi also abrogated the Sirima/Shasthri Pact (1964). There are some 60,000 Tamil people there calling themselves ‘refugees’, but the numbers of ‘refugees’ mentioned in articles in the press keeps growing. Are local people keeping tabs on the numbers coming into Lanka, and how many are in these camps ?

   In a recent speech, Pres MS said that ‘we have to be tolerant of refugees …’ ! INDIA has a never ending stream of ‘refugees’.

   So, for a long time, especially since the trumped up 1983 Riots, Tamil people have come to Lanka and used Lanka as a sort of trampoline to jump to the west, shouting ‘genocide of Tamils in Lanka’ ! Without the 1983 trumped up Riots, this would not have been possible. Never allow Rioting in Lanka, as this is the method used for Tamils to jump to the west as refugees – no other way to go abroad in droves.

   There are good Tamil people too who feel loyal to Lanka and are genuinely good people, but who remain silent for safety reasons. They ought to be protected by Lanka authorities and the public, and allowed to come forward to speak in groups to the UN and other foreign VIPs and tell the truth.

   Don’t fall for the ‘divide & rule’ ploys.

   We must also inquire why it is that Yahap is allowing VISA FREE ENTRY into Lanka for people from Bangladesh & the Philippines.

   Lanka has had such bad time with Tamils of Tamil Nadu, this added visa free entry facility to people of B’desh and the Philippines appears to be asking for more trouble from those two countries as well, isn’t it ? Both countries are overcrowded and poor.
   If anyone wants to help these two countries and Tamil Nadu for that matter, they ought to GO TO THOSE COUNTRIES, and offer help to those people through the govts. there, not bring them to Sri Lanka which has enough trouble.

5. Cerberus Says:
   October 14th, 2016 at 5:32 pm

   Dear Shenali, This article is very good and should be sent to all the embassies and UNHRC, and the UN rapporteur for Minorities.
   The way I see it the Sinhalese have been subjected to genocide for 3000 years by Tamils and it is still going on. The last war was not against the Tamils but the Terrorist group funded and trained by India. These LTTE terrorists wiped out entire Sinhala villages in the East and all the Sinhalese and Muslims in the North were chased out or killed by LTTE. Is it not genocide by Tamils of the Sinhalese? How about justice for them. There are 77 million Tamil Dalits only 12 miles away across the Palk straits and the Sinhalese are under constant threat from them. The Tamil Nadu politicians are constantly uttering anti-Sinhala rhetoric in India and trying to get India to invade Sri Lanka.

   The whole world was told by the Tamils that they are a minority in Sri Lanka and the majority are suppressing, killing and ill-treating the Tamils. On the contrary, they have more rights in Sri Lanka than in Tamil Nadu as they have Free Education and Health Care in Lanka only. None of the States adjoining Tamil Nadu allows Tamil as a National language. However even though there are only about 9% Tamils in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka has adopted Tamil as a National/Official language. They get free education, free medical care and are free to live in the South among the Sinhalese.

   Most of these Tamils were Dalits or Untouchables from South India. In India ‘Untouchability’ is an institutionalized form of slavery. If someone is born to the Untouchable caste (now known as Dalits), they have little hope. Their station in life is fixed. In their birth certificates, they have to state their father’s caste. To escape caste many of them have migrated to other countries – a move which is most likely encouraged by India. They are in Malaysia, Fiji, Mauritius, Madagascar, Australia, Canada, Europe, Sri Lanka, South Africa, etc. Sri Lanka is particularly vulnerable to illegal migration since Tamil Nadu is only 12 miles away across the Palk Straits. So by encouraging the emigration of the Dalits from India, the upper caste people have reduced the Dalits the way U.K. got rid of their convicts by sending them to Australia.”

   This is the main reason as to why the Tamils have created issues in Sri Lanka while in all the other countries they migrated to they have been lying low. They are hoping that by creating an issue where there is none, they can justify the creation of a separate state in Sri Lanka for Tamils, which will empower them to import the millions of Tamil Dalits from India and take over Sri Lanka. This method of exporting their unwanted to other countries is also a way by which India has been slowly invading all the countries mentioned above. In the case of Fiji, which is another small Island, the current percentage of Indians is 51%. They have banned Indians from migrating to the country anymore.”

   It is the Sinhalese who need protection under the R2P against Tamil invasion either direct or indirect. The Tamils have a homeland just 12 miles away from where they came from. The Sinhalese have nowhere to go other than Sri Lanka. I would like to urge the foreign countries involved in current Sri Lanka affairs to have mercy and let the Sinhalese keep their land and culture intact without breaking it up. Almost 100,000 people both Sinhala and Tamil died in the 30-year senseless war and 27,000 soldiers laid down their lives and another 23,000 lost their limbs and were injured badly. If they need the use of the ports they can sign an agreement with the GoSL rather than this mockery of justice they are trying to indulge in by having hybrid courts to indict the Sinhala leadership who removed Tamil terrorism and then impose R2P on the country to save the Tamils from the Sinhalese. It is obvious the ultimate goal of the foreign countries is to get back Sri Lanka as a Colony and have complete control over the ports and airspace. It is obvious from the way the constitution and budget are headed that break up of the country is what the CBK, My3, RW who are acting puppets for these countries want for their masters.

6. Ananda-USA Says:
   October 15th, 2016 at 12:33 am

   Thank you Shenali …. you have done a yeoman service in gathering together and presenting this information in this article. Please keep it up! We need this data to defend ourselves and Sri Lanka in the days ahead.

   You should add to this list the statistics by community and by faculty discipline of students entering the universities.

   Furthermore, you should add the employment statistics by professional : doctors, engineers, lawyers, architects, accountants, scientists and university professors.

   Please make sure you give a calculation of their numbers as a percentage in each category and in the population at large.

   Let us demonstrate how well Tamils have thrived in Sri Lanka, while wailing about discrimination every step of the way, largely because the majority Sinhala community saw fot to uplift ALL people in the population without regard to communal attributes of race, religion, language, caste, sex and wealth.

   Please compare and contrast how we Sinhala people treated the Tamils versus how the Tamils themselves have treated their own low caste people.

   Compare our statistics against India as a whole and against that Tamil Valhalla of Tamil Nadu in India!

   The SADDEST thing is that we Sinhalese have not earned one friend, or one iota of gratitude, from the vast majority of Tamils.

   The only thing they pine for is the vanished British Raj which they could collaborate with to suppress the majority Sinhala people as they did prior to independence. That is the crux of why they want a separate state, to have their own cake while sharing ours equally.

   We Sinhala people treated Tamils equally because that is who we are and what the Buddhist religion of the Sinhala majority teaches us. We must not regret that, or deny them equal treatment in the future as well.

   However, we must RECOGNIZE the SELF-CENTERED SELF-SERVING demands they make for what they are, and DENY THEM COMPLETELY. Furthermore, given what we have learned about the Tamil Community since independence, that they are insatitiably greedy and grasping and do not wish to live amicably without making totally unfair selfish demands, the Tamil Community must NEVER BE TRUSTED with the EXERCISE of Administrative Power in any part of Sri Lanka.

   They have no concept of sharing equally and being just and fair. It is all undiluted greed and selfishness.

   This is what I have learned over the years. I feel very sad about it, but that is the UNDENIABLE TRUTH.

   Wigneswaran, for example, PERSONIFIES the kind of greedy, ungrateful, completely unjust and devious Tamils that we Sinhalese have unfortunately trusted and harbored close to our breasts.

7. plumblossom Says:
   October 15th, 2016 at 2:20 am

   Please don’t talk to me about the discrimination bogey. It is a total lie concocted up by the TNA and the Tamil diaspora to fool the world. As per the UN charter, minorities in a country apart from civil rights (which all citizens are entitled to) should be provided cultural, language and religious rights. Political rights need only be provided at the discretion of the state concerned only, meaning if the government wants to only. Let us look at Sri Lanka’s case. Tamil is a national language alongside Sinhala. All minorities in the country can freely practise their own cultures and religions. I think this should remain the case in the future too.

   Sri Lanka has gone over and beyond what the UN charter stipulates by providing political rights too (which Sri Lanka need not provide according to the UN charter) in terms of provincial councils which as a small country and as per the UN charter Sri Lanka need not have provided. However Sri Lanka done that too.

   Therefore, as a small country, Sri Lanka has done more than enough as per the minorities. It is high time that the TNA, other separatists, the US, EU, UK, Norway, Sweden, Canada and India leave Sri Lanka alone and mind their own business once and for all.

8. plumblossom Says:
   October 15th, 2016 at 3:02 am

   Just saw that the Maldives has left the Commonwealth! Great! Now Maldives, should leave the UN too. This is not because the UN charter is bad since it is extremely good and the UN upholds the extremely important concept of sovereignty of nations, as I have pointed out above. However the UN is today is unfortunately misused, manipulated and used by the US, EU, UK, Canada, Norway, Sweden the neo colonialist imperialists to harass, persecute, bomb, attack and degrade all countries who they do not like in the sense where there are resources like oil, gas, minerals etc. which they want to grab by force or strategic locations which they want to occupy by force and due to other nefarious reasons.

   Sri Lanka, if it has even an ounce of self-respect as a country should leave the UN temporarily. The OHCHR has written totally bogus reports against the Sri Lankan armed forces full of lies and about Sri Lanka full of lies. The US has brought on resolutions against Sri Lanka based on these reports which are full of lies. The Sri Lankan people have been persecuted by the US,EU,UK, Canada, Norway, Sweden and India by unleashing twenty six years of LTTE terrorism against them due to which the Sri Lankan people have suffered immensely with over 47,000 deaths on the side of the Sri Lankan Governments compared to the overall around 84,000 deaths on both sides of the conflict of over 26 years. This persecution and harassment of the Sri Lankan people by the neo colonialist imperialists the US,EU,UK, Canada, Norway, Sweden is continuing with the US resolution, based on lies. Therefore the Sri Lankan Government should now say enough is enough and leave the UN temporarily.

   However Sri Lanka should support the UN charter which upholds the extremely important concept of sovereignty of nations and it will only be a temporary departure until the neo colonialist imperialists the US,EU,UK, Canada, Norway, Sweden stop persecuting and harassing the rest of the world’s countries for good.

9. anura seneviratna Says:
   October 15th, 2016 at 6:44 am

   Grateful thanks again to Shenali for your tireless work in defence of the Sinhela nation and only Sinhela country. It’s time we realize the shameless and grand farce of the settler community leaders. This is the only cowardly trick of the settler community from Tamil Nadu to capture SL as they cannot fight the Indian subcontinent to free their Tamil Nadu. It’s time we don’t become the sacrificial lamb and state loud and clear that SL is the Sinhela national country and all illegal and immoral foreign Tamil national rights made null and void. From now on all settler communities in SL

10. Susantha Wijesinghe Says:
    October 15th, 2016 at 8:05 am

    SHENALI !! I will give a very clear example of a Tamil discrimination against a Sinhalese. My Father was a CCS, and he was to go to Geneva on a posting. My father was excited, and he in turn excited all of us, our family. One day he came home sad, and told us that his posting was cancelled, and a Tamil is being sent in his place. Now who did that ? It is doubling crossing Paski. He must be very old right now in senile decay.

    Equally true, Justice of the Supreme Court Pathmanathan Ramanathan is a very beautiful Tamil. He was my class-mate. He used to come in a pair of shorts to the YWCA Cafeteria, and often we used to sit for lunch together. Very simple, down to earth Tamil.

11. Cerberus Says:
    October 15th, 2016 at 10:11 am

    Correction: Please note the number of Dalits in Tamil Nadu is 20 million and not 77 million as indicated in my note above. The total number of Dalits in India is about 200 million.

12. S.Gonsal Says:
    October 15th, 2016 at 2:35 pm

    Tamils are a very samll minority. If they are so powerful to control Sinhalse who are 70% of th epopulation, IT IS A BIG JOKE.
    It is not the Tiger’s mistake that it kills the deer.

13. Ananda-USA Says:
    October 15th, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    Very well put Gonsal: “It is not the Tiger’s mistake that it kills the deer”

    In fact, you have neatly summarized in one sentence all that I was trying to convey in my post above when I wrote:

    “However, we must RECOGNIZE the SELF-CENTERED SELF-SERVING demands they make for what they are, and DENY THEM COMPLETELY. Furthermore, given what we have learned about the Tamil Community since independence, that they are insatitiably greedy and grasping and do not wish to live amicably without making totally unfair selfish demands, the Tamil Community must NEVER BE TRUSTED with the EXERCISE of Administrative Power in any part of Sri Lanka.”

    It is OUR FAULT that despite treating the Tamil people FAIRLY since independence that we ALLOWED THEM TO BAMBOOZLE US on every front. even allowing the murderers of yesterday to become the wailing victims of today!

    WE MUST HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE, RECOGNIZE their DEVIOUS CHARACTER and METHODS, and DENY THEM EVERY OPPORTUNITY to get more than the EQUAL share that other Si Lankan citizens get. That is the ESSENCE of JUST and EQUITABLE governance.

    If we allow them to run rings around us, that is INDEED OUR FAULT!

14. Lorenzo Says:
    October 15th, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    “It is not the Tiger’s mistake that it kills the deer.”

    WELL SAID!

    What is 75% of the people doing while 15% of the people get away with BLUE MURDER, EXTORTION, TERRORISM, RACISM, COLONIZATION OF COLOMBO, ETC.?

    Tiger knows only one thing – KILL. They will kill. What are WE going to do about it? Die like DEER or FIGHT BACK like LIONS or BEARS?

    WHY Tamils in ENDIA, MALAYSIA, UK, CANADA, etc. can live without TAMIL OFFICIAL LANGUAGE but in SL they want it? WHY Tamils can live in these countries without a TAMIL VERSION of the national anthem but in SL they want it? Why Tamils don’t cry discrimination in the WEST when they are discriminated against their BLACK SKIN but cry foul in SL?

    Because SL majority modayas out of compassion help out these wolves.

    Recently one foolish Singhala Buddhist woman said she is going to donate her dead father’s library books to the Jaffna library. I asked her why not a poor Singhala village library or a school? She said it is MORE MERIT if she gave it to JL where people are suffering!! What madness.

    Singhala MODAYAS have dug their own grave with compassion towards racists.

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