Root Cause of SriLankan Tribulations
Posted on March 19th, 2017
Kanthar P Balanathan, Australia
This article is in response to a video prepared and circulated by Dr. Mahipal Sing Rathore. The talk can be viewed on YouTube page ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBeT2OcAiyw
Although the narrator attempts to focus on some issues, Mahipal has disregarded to discuss the main issues and problems generated by Tamils attempt at every nodal point. Mahipal has forgotten the stumbles during the State Council period and how the Tamil politicians did muddy up the political atmosphere in SriLanka (SL).
GG Ponnambalam (GGP) after returning from the UK with a first class degree in natural sciences and a MA, LLB, became a leading criminal lawyer. However, he made a marathon crusade for 50/50 speech in the state council. In a marathon speech, GGP made an notorious demand of 50-50% representation in governance on the 15th March 1939. Ie. 50% Sinhalese and 50% the rest.
Here any educated literate and or an intellectual, who has knowledge in democratic principles, will understand how democracy works. GGP with all his excellence, certificates from the UK, failed to understand the democratic principles. One will only presume that GGP has failed to acquire adequate appreciation of the theoretical and practical training with his studies in science, law etc. And that’s from the UK. How could a lawyer fail to understand the democratic principles?
This demand he made does not reveal whether his lack of appreciation in the theoretical and practical training he obtained did fail or he was instigated by an external influence to demand to stir up the SriLankan politics. Whatever it is, GGP should not have placed that demand. Further an exceprt is given below of GGP’s ignorance;
Publisher of the book, Dr. K. Indra Kumar makes the note below:
This is the highest degree of duplicity and folly.
Instead, GGP could have demanded a separate country for the Tamils, and if GGP loved the Burgers and Muslims he could have stated that Tamils will embrace the above two into their own separate land. Why did he not demand a separate state, but 50-50 representation? GGP with his educational knowledge and being domiciled in the North, knew very well, that Tamils cannot survive without the help of the resources of the Sinhala, which is human, natural, and production resources. It is a shame on the Tamils to play this fox cunning theme.
Naturally, the majority of a country will generate fear and threat to their survival and governance.
Then once he became a minister, he voted to disfranchise one million Indian Tamils. This is a pure indication of a confused mind of GGP and power hunger. The principles in his mind ended up with conflicts. What has his supporters to say now? If the Tamil politicians did not support the disfranchisement, then they should have taken it to the Privy Council, which they did not. Internally in their mind they wanted disfranchisement of the Indian Tamils.
On education and schools: The British always did practice, divide and rule, wherever they ruled. The Tamils sucked into the British to get what they wanted. The Sinhales did not suck into the British. However, who did get good education? All the elites from the Tamil community did get good education, whereas 100% of the low cast Tamils failed to get good education. After few years the British knew the main issues among the Tamils and allowed Tamils to get education. However, the education was limited.
Therefore it is not the Tamils or Sinhales who built good schools in the North and East. It is the British who built the schools in the N&E. The Sinhales failed here.
In 1949, SJVC floated his Federal Party and started his satyagraha and the disobedience campaign, and gave immense problem to the government.
In 1970, indirectly the Tamil Students Peravai stared the arms struggle by floating Kuttimani & Thangathurai to take up arms. They were smugglers from Valvettiturai. Prabakaran was not seen in the armed environment until 1972, when he was demanded to show his capability by shooting someone. Thats when Prabakaran shot Alfred Duraiyappa in 1974 to prove his capability. He was then absorbed into the Tamil New Tigers led by Uma Maheswaran. Subsequent to the Vaddukoddai resolution in 1976, TNT converged as LTTE under the leadership of Uma Maheswaran. Uma Maheswaran and Prabakaran exchanged shots in Pandi Bajar in 1981 to eliminate to grab leadership. Failure of Uma Maheswaran instigated him to float PLOTE.
Prabakaran was educated only up to 8th standard and did not complete his 9th grade. Therefore anyone states Prabakaran is genius, the writer has questions about the person’s competency in the topic and integrity.
Dr Mahipal S Rathore states in his video that Prabakaran was ideology driven, organised and disciplined, ran a shadow government etc. Well I can agree to some point only. He was not 100% ideology driven. Anton Balasingham educated him and several cadre of the LTTE. In some areas Prabakaran was disciplined etc., but to be ideology driven, he should have proved himself. To murder Hundreds and hundreds of people, politicians and particularly Rajiv Ghandi, non-one can say that he is ideology driven. If a group converges to be a terrorist group then the group is not led by an Ideologist. Prabakaran placed an order that no one in the LTTE cadre should marry. However, in 1974 he got married and that’s with love.
Prabakaran did not run a shadow government in Mullaittivu. He ran a terrorist outfit. He had to depend on SriLankan government on food, medical supplies and removed all assets belonging to the SL government in the North.
If the SriLankan government wanted to defeat the LTTE then they could have done without any difficulty. However, the then timid government who were slaves to the west were ordered not to. This gave the LTTE to boast and run a terrorist outfit. Who financed the LTTE? Do we think the Tamil Diaspora had that amount of resources to finance the LTTE to purchase planes and ships? Everyone knows who finance terrorists around the world.
As far as Tamil Nadu is concerned the Tamil Nadu politicians used the SriLankan Tamil issues as a trump card for their politics. They can easily demand a separate country from India, which they are not prepared to. Why would they demand a separate country in SriLanka, knowing the scarcity of resources in the N&E? All internal and cunning politics.
It may appear to someone that someone may have prepared this video contents which Dr Mahipal Sing Rathore has uploaded onto YouTube.
It is a polite request that anyone who want to talk about the SriLankan issues, please do a bit of research before you conclude on your views. Because it may project an imprudent and irrational image on the Tamils of SriLanka.
March 19th, 2017 at 2:52 am
The root cause of all the problems of SL is TAMIL BELIEVE WRONGLY that there is a TAMIL HOMELAND in SL whereas the Tamil Homeland is TAMIL NADU in Endia.
That is the root cause of all problems.
“Therefore it is not the Tamils or Sinhales who built good schools in the North and East. It is the British who built the schools in the N&E. The Sinhales failed here.”
This is NOT true. ALL Tamil Hindu schools in the north and east were FUNDED by the SINGHALA govt. Just building a school won’t work. You have to keep it going. Very few Tamil private schools like Chundikuli Girls were funded by private and govt.
IF Endia is so concerned about Tamils’ welfare in SL, Endia can take them in. Singhala speaking Tamils will happily remain in SL and live peacefully.
Endians should read this.
Indian interventions in Sri Lanka by Sultan M Hali.
March 19th, 2017 at 3:02 am
It was Endia that FINANCED, ARMED, PROTECTED and CREATED Tamil terrorist groups in 1970s and 1980s. Endia heavily paid for this mistake.
March 19th, 2017 at 4:56 am
This guy Singh is no different to other high caste Indians. All Indian colonial parasites who were partners of the British Empire are not different to Indian colonial parasites in Ceylon.
March 19th, 2017 at 10:17 am
Tamils come to Sri Lanka to mainly get away from the Caste Structure in Tamil Nadu.
Sri Lanka has been allowing them to come in as Cheap Labor, mainly for the plantations sector.
Colonists brought in over one and half Million Cheap Labor from Tamil Nadu for the plantations sector.
Sri Lanka turned a blind eye for a long time on illegal migrants !
Now Sri Lanka is paying dearly for not safeguarding the country re illegal migrants. Tamil leaders use these people to claim Eelam – using padded up numbers.
There are over 15 Million Tamil people labelled as Dalits in Tamil Nadu. It is put into their birth certificates and INDIA does the Census based on Caste. In INDIA, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims etc are categorised as Scheduled Castes for Census purposes.
Tamil people believe that to cross Sea Water is to lose Caste. Crossing Palk Sts would lose Caste. See book “Images of Sri Lanka through American Eyes” – Editor : H.A.I. Goonetilleke.
Every time a drought/Flood strikes Tamil Nadu, Lanka gets illegal migrants from Tamil Nadu (as a type of Refugee). Why can’t the Tamil Diaspora collect money to handle droughts/floods on a permanent basis ? They have the Engineers and the funds to build flood water collection and desalination plants (make sea water potable). Any concerned persons from Lanka can go and help too.
Sri Lanka had best be very aware of such a situation in Tamil Nadu.
March 19th, 2017 at 10:57 am
Fran: Indians who came to Ceylon are not Dalit, Chandals, Untouchables or Scheduled Castes.
Because even today Dalit are not allowed to leave their villages or areas they live in.
According to Hinduthwa Dalits are not human. Tamils and others who came to Ceylon are lower caste but they are not Dalit.
This is Indian lies.
March 19th, 2017 at 1:29 pm
Thank you Bala for the reply to this misleading clip. Sihalese should wake up now to get rid of all root causes.
March 19th, 2017 at 5:38 pm
Dear Christie,
It is most unfortunate that the Hindu religion has the Caste system. It is a sad fact that it is so.
However, I beg to differ that it is only low caste Tamils that came to Sri Lanka. There are a number of articles in the web stating that it was mostly Dalit people from Tamil Nadu that came to Lanka to do labor work in the Plantations Industry.
Example : Article “A House for every Hill-Country Tamil” by T. Ramakrishna, The HINDU newspp of May 17, 2016, states that :
“Called by different names – the Estate Tamils or Upcountry Tamils or Tamils of recent Indian origin – the community traces its roots to Tamil Nadu, from where people of Southern districts, largely Dalits, were brought in as Indentured labor during the 19th and early 20th centuries to work in coffee plantations, and later tea and rubber ….. “
March 19th, 2017 at 6:55 pm
The Hindu is a Hinduthwa news paper. The article is written by an Indian.
Tamil word for Dalit is Chandal. No Dalit Indians went to British Indian Colonies.
“Tamils” who came to work in the plantation sector were low caste, but they were not untouchables.
Another Indian lie to show the world that plantation workers were slaves and untouchables.
Ceylon is not the only place that Indian plantation workers are found. In Indian African colonies, Fiji. Guyana, Mauritius, none of them are untouchables. Indian parasites that are migrating to other countries now are not Dalit either.
Even under ETCA we will not get Dalits.
March 20th, 2017 at 6:29 am
The strangest part of the INDIAN Caste system is that the Dalits, who are the ORIGINAL PEOPLE of INDIA, are in the lowest rung. The invading forces of INDIA coming from outside created the Hindu Caste System. It was not a creation of the ORGINAL PEOPLE OF INDIA, the so called Dalits.
The Buddha did not accept the Caste System of INDIA.
It is apparent that what the Buddha did accept was the RAJ YOGA of Hinduism. Raj Yoga is the highest of the Four Great Yogas, the centre part, the Heart of the Hindu Teachings. Meditation is a part of Raj Yoga.
The present PM of INDIA, Narendra Modi, is of Dalit extract.
The great Buddhist leader of INDIA, Dr Ambedkar, was of Dalit extract.
There are many good and able Dalit people in the world today.
All this goes to show that being of Dalit extract is not a social downfall.
On the contrary, it shows that ‘Dalit’ is a merely figment of imagination of the 3,000 yr old Caste System, and not a real situation in the artificial social hierarchy.
No intent here to hurt anyones feelings.