By L.K.N. Perera (L.L.B.) retired Magistrate

Review By Desamanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Secretary Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhla Bauddhdha Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya. 4.11.2023.

EELAM Exposed by L.K.N. Perera is a Magnum opus on the Eelam myth, both in its content and analysis. In his own words it is basically an exposure of the nakedness of Tamil politicians who mislead the Tamil community for their own political survival” But to me it is much more as a source book on rare and valuable source of historical information culled out from the horse’s mouths, foreigners like Queiros, Baldaeus, Robert Percival and many a local sources like historians and archival material which professional” historians have miserably failed to expose to the world to substantiate his thesis.  Although the writer is not a professional historian, I am convinced that he has done a great job as a patriot to expose the EELAM myth which no other person, historian or otherwise has done. Therefore, to me, it is a book that should be read by all, where ever they live, whoever they may be, who want to know about the genesis of this myth, its historical development, the destructions it has brought about to this country and its people, (including world leaders like Rajive Ghandi, the Indian Prime Minster and national leaders like R. Premadasa the President of Sri Lanka of Sri Lanka, Durei Appa Mayor of Jaffna and Amithalingam, Luxman Kdiargamar and General Kobbe kaduwa) and tens of thousands of innocent civilian men and women and children both Sinhala and Tamil, and destroyed invaluable national assets worth trillions.

The word EELAM according to Tamil perception is an imaginary Tamil empire covering a major part of the globe from East to West and North to South. According to the book Sinhalese and the Aryan Theory” Mohejodaro Harappa civilization also was a part of the ancient EELAM and in its widespread it is also like the dream land of the Muslim world Empire; the Muslims have in mind. This mythical EELAM never existed on this earth and that will also never come in to being on this planet. Therefore, in sum it is only a crazy day dream by some mentally imbalanced Tamil racial lunatics.  EELAm according to south Indian Literature means the land of the Sinhalese. It is the Tamilized version of Siihalam, the historical homeland of the Sinhalese for 2600 years with a continuously recorded history, with no parallel in the whole world.

Not only the Sinhalese, the Bhoomiputras of this Island but also all peace-loving sons and daughters who love this resplendent Island of the Sinhala nation for 2600 years must unreservedly congratulate the author of this book, L.K.N. Perera the patriot and Attorney at Law and ex-Magistrate, for compiling these pains taking treaties EELAM exposed.”, As a brave Sinhala warrior he has done a great job which nor politician or a historian of the so-called post-Independence era has done.  Even professional  historians like Garrett Champness (G.C.) Mendis, S. G. Perera, Colvin R. De Silva and Prof K. M. De Silva, who have been adored as idols of history of this island’s Colonial and post-Colonial history should hide their heads in shame under six feet deep in sand like Australian Ostriches for their failure to expose the ethnocentric conspiracies hatched first by the colonial invaders such as the British and the American  invaders  like Governor North and his  colonial Secretary  Hue Cleghorn (1799) and Catholic missionaries like  and the Roman Catholic Church (1813,1819, 1837 and 1849). This mission was  followed by Malabar slaves and their descendants imported by the British,  to work on their tobacco farms and roads  like Ponnambalan Arunachalam and S.J. Chelvanayagam  and their successors to distort the true history of this country and trying to build up a pseudo history  to promote their communal dreams, while discarding our ancient Chronicles like Mahaavamsa, Deepavamasa and ignoring numerous other archaeological, epigraphical and literary sources highly hailed even by renowned Western Scholars like Wilhem Geiger, Turner, Parker, Tennat, Robert Knox, Robert Percival,  Bandeaus, Fernando  de Queros and Cave, a job beautifully done by the author.

This book is a must for all our literate politicians who can read, starting from the President down to the Village Committee member and Tamils living the world over to open their blind eyes to understand the imminent disaster that is going to befall this country and the Sinhala nation. For these reasons I opine, it belongs to the third category of books mentioned by Fransis Baken, that is a book that should be chewed and digested.” After that all Eelaamists  should, renounce for good, their mad belief that the Tamil Eelam is the proposed independent state that many Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Eelam Tamil diaspora say that it was the ancient Tamil eelam presently occupied by the Sinhalese, that they aspire to re- create in the North and East of Sri Lanka, the existence of which the author of this book has disproved beyond all reasonable doubts.

They also should understand that the author of this book also has proved that all Tamils living in Sri Lanka has only 300 years of domicile here, thereby totally dismantling the Tamil claim of 3000 year of domicile in this country. Thereafter, if they wish to live and earn their living in any part of this land of the Sinhala people, they should also accept with no reservation that this is the land of the Sinhala Buddhist people for the past 2600 years and it was the Sinhalese who found the civilization and the culture on this land for which each and every grain of sand on every inch of this land is soaked and sanctified with their blood in battle against South Indian Tamils from 2nd century BC and three barbarous Western European invaders  namely, the Portuguese, Dutch and British from 1505 up to date bear witness and no other man or woman of any other race has a right to claim it, as their homeland. If the Tamils need a home land they should go back to their own traditional Homeland in South India. Second, having accepted that, if they want to live here, they have to accept this country and no other as their home land and integrate with the natives without causing unnecessary problems to the sons of the soil. If they are not prepared to do so the only way to do is to go back to their motherlands from where ever they have come.  This I believe is the message given by the author of this book for these vicious trouble makers.   

Meanwhile, reading through the book I see lot of repetitions throughout the text. Therefore, I would like to earnestly request the author to attempt a new abridged edition, say about 200 pages that could easily include all what he had said without killing the spirit of this very important treaties that has revealed some extremely rare, irreputable and authentic historical facts on the true history of modern Lanka. If that could be done readers will find it very pleasant to read it and save their time as well.

This book I think should be read by all patriotic citizens of this country. No man, woman or student should miss it. It must be a treasure book that must adore the library of every University, Pirivena, every School and every Prajaa saalaava library in this country. I also commend it to all Sri Lankans to read, for them to know the true history of their motherland in the post 1505 period. It should also be read by the people of all other communities to know where they really stand. It could also serve as a hand book on the myth of EELAM in Sri Lanka to everybody.

Last but not least, once again I congratulate the author for dispelling the EELAM myth for good, never to raise its ugly head again on the soil of this land.