{"id":50204,"date":"2015-12-16T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T06:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50204"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T00:08:40","slug":"beware-of-flood-affected-south-indian-scroungers-invading-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/16\/beware-of-flood-affected-south-indian-scroungers-invading-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Flood Affected South Indian Scroungers Invading Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>November 2015 brought South India one of the biggest natural disasters it faced in decades. Floods killed over 500 people, displaced over 2.5 million people and caused over $15 billion property damage. Mismanagement, corruption and callous disregard for human life, especially those considered low-caste\u201d have pushed many South Indians into utter desperation. Another Tamil illegal migration to Sri Lanka is expected soon from South India as happened in 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> centuries. Sri Lankan government must prevent this calamity by denying them entry into the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, a similar flood inundated South India. However, Sri Lanka miraculously survived Tamil invasion thanks to the anti-Tamil riot that year. Given the security situation, Sri Lanka was the last destination of Tamils in South India then. However, today the atmosphere is more conducive to them and hundreds of thousands are expected to make the trip. Unfortunately, the Tamil language is given the official language status since 1987 and this acts as a powerful attraction to South Indian illegals. Most displaced people are from inundated farming areas who will find Sri Lanka an attractive destination to find work.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka with its own problems cannot host these south Indian scroungers. Locals need work, land, clean water, roads, medical facilities, foreign reserves and public service and cannot compromise accommodating illegals. Unless the Sri Lankan government prevents the possibility of illegals coming to Sri Lanka to live or work, the island nation is in for economic and social disaster. In terms of the economic impact, it is not too distant from a locust invasion.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported in South Indian media that some Catholic and Hindu organisations with their presence in South India and Sri Lanka are facilitating the move of some of the affected unemployed people. This malicious plan must be defeated.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, Sri Lanka must remove Tamil as an official language (even India doesn\u2019t recognise it as an official language) to prevent South Indians invading the island nation. In the medium term, a civil-military partly self-financing organisation must be set up to identify, capture, fine and deport South Indians illegally working in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara\u00a0 November 2015 brought South India one of the biggest natural disasters it faced in decades. Floods killed over 500 people, displaced over 2.5 million people and caused over $15 billion property damage. Mismanagement, corruption and callous disregard for human life, especially those considered low-caste\u201d have pushed many South Indians into utter desperation. Another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50204","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=50204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}