{"id":114821,"date":"2021-06-02T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114821"},"modified":"2021-06-02T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:24:06","slug":"will-us-help-create-tamil-eelam-homeland-in-tamil-nadu-will-india-allow-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/06\/02\/will-us-help-create-tamil-eelam-homeland-in-tamil-nadu-will-india-allow-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Will US help create Tamil Eelam Homeland in Tamil Nadu & will India allow it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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India\ncreated Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. It took just 13 days. 73million\nBangladeshi\u2019s were given \u2018independence\u2019. So, the question is why didn\u2019t India\ndo the same to the Sikhs demanding \u2018Khalistan\u2019 or the Tamils demanding Tamil\nEelam whether it was in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka\u2019s North? Why is the West so\npumped up to create \u2018micro independent states\u2019 that provide it strategic\ngeopolitical advantage \u2013 Kosovo, South Sudan, East Timor are just some\nexamples? What can we make out from Resolution 413 presented to US Congress by\na handful of US Congressmen linked to LTTE Diaspora or the ridiculous Bills getting\npassed by LTTE lobbies in Canada? What do Tamils the world over read from these\ndevelopments? The crux of the problem is that the same ethnic group (Tamils)\nare demanding a Homeland in 2 different countries using the same definitions to\nclaim self-determination\/separate state. How can this be allowed? To solve\nthis, the question of where Tamils originally evolved needs to be answered and\nthat leaves the homeland nowhere else but in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a homeland? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nhomeland is a person\u2019s native land of origin. It is where their ethnic group\nevolved. Generally, every ethnic group has their own country \u2013the Japanese have\nJapan, the Chinese have China, the French have France, the Germans have Germany\netc. Pakistan was divided along ethnic lines and became a state for Muslims,\nwhile India\u201d did not become a Hindu state. Unfortunately, when India was\ncreated in 1947 combining princely states and autonomous areas of which Tamil\nNadu was one, Tamils were not given their demand of a separate independent\nTamil State. They only got a separate federal state. That grudge against the\nNorth Indians by South Indians remain to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, with 70million\nTamils living in Tamil Nadu alone and with over 80million Tamils living all\nover the world including Sri Lanka, Tamils are the world\u2019s biggest ethnic group\nwithout a homeland to call for itself. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evolution of Man & creation\nof ethnic groups<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\nwe are in acceptance of the out of Africa theory, we are in unison that man evolved\nfrom Africa and spread out to all corners of the world and with time creating\ndifferent groups of people who varied by their skin colour, features,\ngeographical location, cultures, traditions etc. These groups later became\ncodified as \u2018ethnic\u2019 groups by colonial rulers who went further to define them\nas \u2018minorities\u2019 \u2018majority\u2019. So if we are having problems with how people have\nbeen classified and categorized first blame the British!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\npeople are a mixture from the African gene, they went on to create themselves\ninto numerous ethnic groups. Sinhalese are also a mixture but Sinhalese as an\nethnic group with its own language, culture etc evolved in Sri Lanka and there\nare no Sinhalese anywhere else in the world and definitely Vijaya was not Sinhalese\nto claim the Sinhalese descend from India. Sinhalese are the only ethnic group\nthat evolved in Sri Lanka and can claim the entirety of the island as its\nhomeland. There are Sinhalese living in all parts of the world but their roots\nare in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare Tamils living in all corners of the world. Most of these Tamils were\nplucked from South India and shipped off to the Caribbean, South Africa, Far\nEast etc by the Colonials, in particular the Colonial British. During colonial\nrule in then Ceylon, the Portuguese, Dutch and British did the same by bringing\nscores of Tamils as indentured labor to Sri Lanka. There have been 18 invasions\nfrom South India and many would have decided to stay on in Sri Lanka too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now\nwe come to the most important question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where did Tamils originate.\nWhere did they evolve as an ethnic group? Is it in South India or Sri Lanka? If\nanyone claims Sri Lanka, they must also answer how there are over 70million\nTamils in India while there are less than 3m Tamils in Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the most important question to be answered is where did Tamils evolve from, for that is where Tamils in the\nCaribbean can call their Homeland, where Tamils in South Africa can call their\nHomeland, where Tamils all around the world can call their homeland \u2013 where\ntheir original roots are. <\/strong>They may live in another\ncountry, they may hold citizenship in another country but where did their\npeople originate? This is the golden question to answer. This is where Tamil\nEelam has to be declared. This is why the self-determination quest started in\nIndia with several secession movements that were quelled by the Indian\ngovernment until they found an escape by palming of India\u2019s headache to Sri\nLanka by arming Sri Lankan Tamils to claim a separate state called Tamil Eelam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does India want Tamils to have\na Homeland & Does India want it created in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\ncreated Bangladesh but India will not allow Khalistan for Sikhs and Tamil Eelam\nfor Tamils in either Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka. Mother Indira Gandhi created\nBhindrawale & Prabakaran, Sikh bodyguards killed Indira and son Rajiv was\nkilled by LTTE. 9m of the 30m Sikhs live in Punjab. The Punjab Accord signed by\nRajiv in 1985 failed in 1987.  It is noteworthy how LTTE Diaspora in\nCanada have tapped some Canadian Sikhs to lobby for them and India should take\nnote of this development and the foreign hands behind this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.onlanka.com\/news\/indo-lanka-accord-and-the-punjab-accord-india-fooled-sikhs-and-is-now-fooling-tamils.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\nis clear that India does not wish to and will not allow a breakaway of South\nIndia\u2019s Tamil Nadu losing 130,058 km\u00b2 area to have it declared a separate\nindependent & sovereign state of Tamils out of India\u2019s Central Government\ncontrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then\nwhy force Sri Lanka to sign Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987, create the useless\nProvincial Council system, merge two provinces (north & east), handpick 2\nSri Lankan Tamil poodles (Mahaththaya \u2013 LTTE\u2019s Deputy and Varatharaja Perumal\nwho declared unilateral declaration of independence) and even send an Indian\nPeace Keeping Force?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least now Tamils should\nunderstand that India did all this not to help Tamils create any Tamil Eelam.\nIndia used Tamils for India\u2019s geopolitical goals.<\/strong>India\ncontinues to use Tamils just as foreign intel are using LTTE Diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nforeign countries have banned LTTE, why are they not taking action against the\npro-LTTE groups openly operating in their countries? Why did they use the\nprevious government to deproscribe a select number of banned LTTE groups? These\nare all part of their larger plan to which LTTE Diaspora have no option but to\ntake part in or have their shop closed & have their international money\nmaking network nullified in the process. So naturally, they are playing their\nrole perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\nIndia and Sri Lanka must take cognizance of the developments taking place\nbuilding the foundation for 2 objectives \u2013 break up of India as that would be\naligned to the quest to create micro states and it is a quicker way to their 2\nmain targets \u2013 China & Russia. The other objective if Eelam is created in\nSri Lanka is to create another Israel in South Asia for West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nbreak-up of India has been earmarked & openly declared in 1998 by US\nCongressmen Edolphus Towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At\nleast the Tamils in Sri Lanka should look at the situation beyond the hype and\npropaganda and realize that their home in Sri Lanka remains amongst the\ncommunities living in Sri Lanka sans any mono-ethno linguistic separate enclave\nand they must finally raise their voice to say they do not wish to separate Sri\nLanka & desire to live in peace with all the communities of Sri Lanka. Let\nthe LTTE Diaspora and anyone else wanting to create separate states carve these\nout in the countries that fund these campaigns!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamils must now\nboldly say \u2018No to Separating Sri Lanka\u2019 & \u2018No to Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge India created Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. It took just 13 days. 73million Bangladeshi\u2019s were given \u2018independence\u2019. So, the question is why didn\u2019t India do the same to the Sikhs demanding \u2018Khalistan\u2019 or the Tamils demanding Tamil Eelam whether it was in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka\u2019s North? Why is the West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}