{"id":98484,"date":"2020-01-31T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98484"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:23:18","slug":"article-titled-lets-sing-a-5050-national-anthem-and-the-need-for-the-sinhalese-to-assert-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/31\/article-titled-lets-sing-a-5050-national-anthem-and-the-need-for-the-sinhalese-to-assert-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE TITLED \u2018LET\u2019S SING A 50:50\u2019 (National Anthem) AND THE NEED FOR THE SINHALESE TO ASSERT THEMSELVES."},"content":{"rendered":"

W. Pathirana.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I am referring to the above titled article\nin Daily Mirror, p A9 of 6\/1\/2020 (kksperera1@gmail.com<\/a>)\nand the article titled \u2018Tamils Want to Sing National Anthem in Their Mother\nTongue\u201d on Daily Mirror, p A9 of 11\/1\/2020 (dbsjeyaraj@yahoo.com). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Material presented here without\ninhibitions is essentially directed at pathologically broad minded Sinhalese\nwhose ideas in reality give a wrong message to the minorities. There are many\narticles that poorly reflect the 20 centuries old magnificent Sinhalese\nheritage and ownership to this island. This is in sharp contrast to the voicing\nfor piling up rights incessantly demanded by the minorities. The issues raised\nhere must be viewed with the back ground that Sri Lankan minorities assume for\nthemselves a majoritarian mind set in that there is a larger Tamil population\nof 75 million in Tamil Nadu and that the Muslim world extend from Morocco in Atlantic\nocean to Indonesia in Pacific ocean with an arch of Muslim countries over India\nand Sri Lanka (SL). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is all the time news items for one\nto see as to how people stand up to protect and uphold their countries. The latest\nis how Swiss embassy staff and their government went all out to protect a staff\nmember, despite her being a Sri Lankan citizen. One wonders if it has become a\nfashion to appease the Tamils in this country by many of our eminent\njournalist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a word was said about a Tamil anthem by\nthe journalists until Sirisena-Ranil government sang it as a vote catching\nploy. None of the election manifestoes or even a cursory mention made before\nthe event. There wasn\u2019t any notable demand even by the Tamil leaders on the\nTamil anthem issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dire predicament of the Sinhalese are\nnot realized by these journalists and the cocoon dwelling Sinhalese in general.\nThe Sinhalese occupying just a small island and limited to a part of it,\nincreasingly loosing the 20 centuries old territory, in the north by descendants\nof invading Tamil armies and labor force brought from Tamil Nadu by the Dutch for\nthe tobacco cultivation, in the central hills by labor force brought by the\nEnglish for tea cultivation, Tamil mercantile class establishing in Colombo area\n(Sinhalese now a minority in capital?), destroying and erasing Sinhalese cultural\nheritage in the north and east by the minorities, yet our able journalists\nsplit hair to paint a racial picture about the Sinhalese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite using Tamil as their mother\ntongue, 60,000 Muslims in the north were chased out within 48 hours. Over the\nyears 25,000 Sinhalese had been evicted from the north. Recently due to\nharassment as many as 80 undergraduates from the University of Jaffna had to be\ntransferred to other universities. About two weeks back few Buddhist murals\npainted by Jaffna prisoners were prevented from displaying by Tamil politicians.\nThere were minority protests about the burial of a Buddhist monk in the east. The\nidea is to set up a tribal Tamil racist state to their own peril and to\neveryone around them. This idea is probably based on the epic Ramayana where thirteen\nheaded mythical Ravana of Lanka is viewed as a Dravidian and hence Tamil rights\npredate those of Sinhalese. However 20 centuries of recorded Sinhalese history with\nconnections stretching from Rome to China meaning the whole world at that time,\ntogether with extensive literature, network of tanks and canals and over 100,000\nruins ever visible reflect the Sinhalese heritage of the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One must be concerned about the\nprogressively restricting premise of the Sinhalese from every angle, one of the\nmost accommodative people on earth. In the whole world only the Sinhalese are\nencouraged and driven to learn Tamil spoken by a very limited population, one\nmore wasteful misguided exercise for Sinhalese in place of learning any one of\nthe international languages. Tamil language had not evolved and refined stagnating\nfor last so many centuries. Incidentally Tamil language too in a global scale is\nessentially confined to the very south-eastern tip of India at about 5% of\nIndian population. All the critics of Sinhalese including those Sinhalese\nthemselves are sitting on the lap of Sinhalese and carry on Sinhalese bashing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nationally and Internationally the\nSinhalese are taken to task by many as they have identified the mindless nature\nof the Sinhalese. There is a severe drought of ideas even when it is a matter\nof life and death. More often than not whenever there is a reaction it is\nmisplaced and out of proportion complicating the issue. The international\npogroms include: some sections of the Sinhalese themselves, certain SL political\nparties, by the SL Tamils, Tamil Nadu Tamils, Tamil diaspora with a government\nin exile, International Non-governmental Organizations who are actually governmental\nin providing funds and policy directions at the other end, India with the\nhistorical blunder in sponsoring Tamil terrorists, Ms. Suka of South Africa\u2019s,\nDarusman of Indonesia (brought out a strange UN repot available to the accused\nSL only after 30 years, none had the presence of mind to say we shall respond\nafter studying it at the end of 30 years\u201d). British ruling and Opposition\nparties where their leaders selectively congratulated Tamils during new year\nand Thai Pongal without uttering once SL or Sinhalese, Norway, Canada, USA-\nCo-sponsoring a suicide pact and Hillary receiving Tamil election funds, later\nreturned, France involved during last phase of civil war, Switzerland- courts\nreleasing LTTE terrorists from prison saying they have the right to terror, Australia\nwith a woman in charge of LTTE child soldiers putting on cyanide capsules\nnecklaces, Argentina- for SL siding with UK during Folkland war, Hong Kong and\nTaiwan on Sri Lanka\u2019s one China policy and by Germany as a pastime. However to\ntheir credit a former LTTEr for having indicated movements of late Mr\nKadiragamer to the assassins was sentenced to 10.5 years imprisonment. Withstanding\nsuch an onslaught, no wonder that Sinhalese are the longest surviving culture in\nthe world (Roman, Greek, Mesopotamian, Ottoman, Persian, possibly Indus all\ndisappeared), that too with a smile despite such powerful adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the face value of it and on good\nintentions in the tradition of Sinhalese, the article \u2018Let\u2019s Sing a 50:50\u2019 appear\nacceptable. The reference to few countries that sing national anthem in 2-3\nlanguages hides the horrendous facts about extreme racist nature of Tamils in SL\nand for that matter most Tamils as listed above. Those shared singing of\nanthems in the said countries are not with races who forever are aiming at the\nthroat of the other party. The backwardness of dual\/multi language anthems are\nreflected in the fact that majority of these are in backwrd African countries. Please\nsee listing below on extremely anti SL racial nature of Tamils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n