Topic started by Protam (@ 12-230-204-175.client.attbi.com) on Mon May 20 03:20:23 .
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It looks like there are more Sinhalese than tamils in Trinco according to SL sources? is it true? is it the case with the eastern province?

Responses:

• From: Nisala (@ ac97c64a.ipt.aol.com) on: Tue May 21 00:13:33
  
  False. In Trinco there are more Tamils.
  
  The sparsely-populated Eastern Province does not have a majority community (over 50%). I believe Tamils are the most numerous community, closely followed by the Muslims.
  
  
• From: Raveen (@ h66-59-174-253.gtconnect.net) on: Tue May 21 16:38:01
  
  In 1930, Tamils made up 70% of the total population of the Eastern province with Muslims making up 25% and Sinhalese and 4% and Veddhas (tribals) 1%.
  
  Due to Sinhal colonization schemes in which not only virgin land was cleared but also traditional Tamil villages were ethnically cleansed and villagers made refugees since the Gal Oya project accelerated under Mahaveli Ganga project has reduced the Tamils to 40% of the Total population with huge increases in the Sinhala population at the expense of Tamils and Muslims.
  
  Trinco city still has a Tamil majority because most of the rural Tamil refugees ended up in Trinco city after being raped, killed and chased from their traditional outlying villages but the whole district has a majority Sinhalese at 40% and Muslims and Tamils at 30% each.
  
  Buddhist are not supposed to lie but Sinhala Buddhist are an exception so we can forgive “Nisala” for her/his lies in this forum. He/She is simply playing her/his historical hate game.
  
  
• From: Raveen (@ h66-59-174-253.gtconnect.net) on: Tue May 21 16:42:39
  
  Eastern province is made of Trincomalee, Baticaloa and Amparai (renamed as Digamadulla by the Sinhalese) districts out of which Trincoimalee and Amparai has Sinhalese majority (not yet out right but will get there soon) and Baticalao still has a Tamil majority, I wonder why :)))
  
  
• From: Nisala (@ aca98440.ipt.aol.com) on: Tue May 21 17:38:31
  
  "but the whole district has a majority Sinhalese at 40% and Muslims and Tamils at 30% each."
  
  I actually was not aware of this. But 40% is not a majority- it's a plurality. Hopefully LTTE will massacre all non-Tamils in SL.
  
  "Buddhist are not supposed to lie"
  
  Unfortunately yes. I am envious of Eelamists who have 100% permission to not only lie but extort and murder as well. I scoured the Tripitaka for any sanction of suicide-killing but could not find anything. I think it should be the end of Buddhism in SL and the adoption of Eelam-morality which can then spread across the world.
  
  "and Amparai (renamed as Digamadulla by the Sinhalese) districts out of which Trincoimalee and Amparai has Sinhalese majority (not yet out right but will get there soon)"
  
  Not for long. LTTE heroes will repeat the massacre at Gonagala and soon there will be full ethnic cleansing in Eelam. I can hardly wait.
  
  Digamadulla? Interesting...
  
  
• From: Raveen (@ h66-59-174-253.gtconnect.net) on: Wed May 22 11:59:38
  
  Like a dear caught on the glare of a car headlight, "Nisla' simply has nothing offer when faced with the truth rother that add some more verbal diarrhea in this forum.
  
  
• From: raju (@ host62-7-153-26.webport.bt.net) on: Sat Jun 1 13:39:52
  
  how can 'muslim' be separate from tamil or sinhala. you are either sinhala or tamil...or budhist,hindu,muslim or christian of either races.
  
  
• From: Ceyloni@UK (@ webport-cl6-cache1.ilford.mdip.bt.net) on: Tue Jun 11 19:34:55
  
  Sorry Raveen -I think you meant to write Deer.
  
  Also There is a lot of nationlist big cat interplay. i.e Lions & Tigers.
  
  Just to make a note Lions and Tigers are not native to Sri Lanka.
  
  
  
• From: Nisala (@ ac8207dc.ipt.aol.com) on: Thu Jun 13 23:49:24
  
  "Just to make a note Lions and Tigers are not native to Sri Lanka."
  
  And people like Cyril Mathew claimed that Tamils were not native to SL either.
  
  
• From: Nisala (@ ac8207dc.ipt.aol.com) on: Thu Jun 13 23:52:31
  
  Raju,
  
  "how can 'muslim' be separate from tamil or sinhala. you are either sinhala or tamil...or budhist,hindu,muslim or christian of either races."
  
  It is simple to explain. SL Muslims feel that their religion supersedes all other form of identification. That is how they are distinct from Tamils.
  
  Likewise, Eelamists feel that Tamil language comes first and religion must be subservient. They got real mad when the Muslims did not play along, which explains the poor treatment the Muslims got from the LTTE heroes.
  
  
• From: Nisala (@ ac8207dc.ipt.aol.com) on: Thu Jun 13 23:54:30
  
  Om Raveen,
  
  "Nisla' simply has nothing offer when faced with the truth rother that add some more verbal diarrhea in this forum."
  
  Diarrhea? Well what do you expect after the crap you feed all of us?!? ;-)
  
  
• From: Eezham Tamil (@ qc-mon-pel-ap3-01-34.look.ca) on: Fri Jun 14 01:29:32
  
  From ancient times, the Tamils and Sinhalese have lived nad shared the country, but the Muslims- they failed to fall within the definition of an ethnic group. Muslims in Srilanka speak the Tamil language, therefore THEY TOO ARE TAMILS. The Srilankan Muslims used to say "ISLAM ENKALL VAZHI, INPATH THAMIZE ENKALL MOZHI" ( Islam is our way of living, Tamil is our language). The Arabic word Muslim means one who professes the faith of Islam or who is born to a muslim family.From this it is clear that muslims are not an ethnic grouping but a religious grouping. Unfortunately, in Srilanaka the SL Govt. introduced them as a separate entity for political gains and divide and rule the Tamil community.
  
  Pirabhakaran’s Apology
  
  It is an open secret that the government was using the Muslims, as they always do to weaken the Tamils. They were used as spies in the very heartland of the Tamils to thwart the freedom struggle of the Tamils. That caused grave concern and frustration to the LTTE including the Tamil civilians. Information was passed on to the Sri Lankan security forces from some Muslims living in Jaffna and the Tamil Liberation movement suffered many setbacks. This led to what is now history. It is indeed unfortunate that this was done to the Muslim community as a whole, but Tamils know why. Regrettably many Muslims who had nothing to do with such unfaithful acts also had to suffer for the fault of a few. The LTTE couldn’t wait till they could prove who the saboteurs were ‘beyond reasonable doubts’; if they did, a likely event would have been – no more LTTE.
  The Tamils at the start of their struggle in the 1970’s were keen to include the Muslims of the North and East too as ‘Tamil speaking people’, and it was the then Muslim leaders of Sinhala parties who rejected it, saying that they have a separate identity and even though they speak Tamil they are not Tamils. They refused to be a party to the liberation struggle of the Tamil-speaking people. Now all of a sudden, when they realize that the Tamils may see light at the end of the tunnel, the Muslim leaders are attempting to include themselves too as Tamils speaking people, to claim their share of the cake that they once opposed claiming a separate identity.
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Eezham Tamil (@ qc-mon-pel-ap3-01-34.look.ca) on: Fri Jun 14 01:40:00
  
  Sinhalese colonisation destroys Tamil heartlands
  
  Sri Lankan Sinhal Hawks call it "demographic racial equalisation"; the Tamils refer to it as "state aided systemised colonisation. "The process of settling Sinhalese families in large tracts of land in the eastern provinces, which began soon after Sri Lanka obtained Independence, has changed the demographic nature of what were thought to be Tamil homeland, writes Charu Lata Joshi for the Times of India News Service.
  
  In Trincomalee, figures supplied by the divisional secretariat are a pointer:
  
  According to the 1991 census, sixty four per cent of the 265 000-strong population belong to the Sinhalese and Muslim communities, while less than a third are Tamils. Four decades back, Tamils constituted nearly 70 per cent of the population.
  
  "The policy of successive Sinhalese governments was to make the minorities, minorities in their own area. Trincomalee was one such constitency which had a Tamil MP, but now with the proportional district representation system, there are two Sinhalese MPs from this area, one Muslim and one Tamil.
  
  Officials in the secretariat reveal that in 1965 the government brought into effect the "Kantellai Scheme" - a water irrigation scheme which brought an additional 13,000 acres of land under cultivation. In the additional land which became cultivable, only five per cent was distributed among Tamils while 95 per cent went to the Sinhalese community.
  
  What has become an additional bone of contention between the two communities in these parts is what is perceived as state intervention in resettling the Sinhalese community in the eastern province.
  
  "After all when Tamils migrate to the south and form strongholds, it's a natural process, they are not given crown land," argues Andrew Pubalasingham, a resident.
  
  The stories of hutment-dwellers who till large tracts of land, west of Trincomallee, are telling. B G Jayatillake, a resident of Kandy was given a small patch of land by the government in 1959 and he has been living here since. What was once a barren, desolate landscape is now dotted with concrete houses and swaying paddy fields, and in a few decades, a village called Gamonopura came into being. En route to the Kantellai area, Gamonopura the village houses 150 families in a three square mile area.
  
  But not one of these families are Tamil. The examples are endless. When contacted, officials from the ministry of land or the ministry of ethnic affairs and national integration offer no answer. For the already irked Tamil population in these parts, this becomes yet another cause for discrimination.
  
  
  It was the Jayawardane government which made the first , overt and cunning move to scuttle the Indo-Lanka agreement of July 1987.
  
  The columnist of the Frontline, Mr.T.S.Subramaniam reported in the issue dated October 17-30, 2000 asunder:
  
  “The entire process of deterioration began when the Sri Lankan government started colonizing parts of Northern and Eastern Provinces with Sinhalese in a swift and well-organised way afer the agreement was singed.
  It was apparent that Colombo had a major role in this judging from the building material and finances made available for the Sinhalese settlers.Colonisation is indeed an emotive issue for the Tamils and one of the five demands over which the LTTE’s propaganda chief Thileepan started his fast-unto-death on September 15 was a halt to the Sinhalese colonization in the Tamil areas”
  
  The spindoctors of Tamilnadu who have now become more rabid and more vocal than even the Sinhalese must know that they may try to suppress but cannot annul Truth
  
  
• From: Nisala (@ ac96bea2.ipt.aol.com) on: Fri Jun 14 18:52:30
  
  "The Srilankan Muslims used to say "ISLAM ENKALL VAZHI, INPATH THAMIZE ENKALL MOZHI"
  
  That may be, but surely they had hardly supported Eelamism, separatism and "federalism" after independence. ACTC nor FP got their votes, but the 'Sinhala-dominated' UNP sure did. I guess they didn't want to be associated with a losing cause.
  
  In addition, it is also interesting to note that because the Muslims did not support separatism, they were not victims of the various anti-Tamil riots from '56 onwards.
  
  "That caused grave concern and frustration to the LTTE including the Tamil civilians."
  
  So in other words, Muslims were ethnically cleansed from Jaffna because of fear that they were spies.
  
  So after 162 suicide-bombings and assassinations, how come Tamils have not been expelled from Colombo by the govt.?!?!
  
  "Now all of a sudden, when they realize that the Tamils may see light at the end of the tunnel, the Muslim leaders are attempting to include themselves too as Tamils speaking people, to claim their share of the cake that they once opposed claiming a separate identity."
  
  What a bunch of ingrates!!!
  
  "What was once a barren, desolate landscape is now dotted with concrete houses and swaying paddy fields, and in a few decades, a village called Gamonopura came into being."
  
  So it is a monstrous crime when people settle on barren, desolate land?!? Alert Amnesty International!!! This is even worse than the Holocaust!!
  
  BTW, what is left out is that prior to the early 50s, Kilinochchi and parts of Mulattaivu and Mannar (on the mainland)- the current Eelam heartland- were uninhabited until the SL govt. launched a colonization scheme to bring Tamil fisherman from the overcrowded islands to settle. Most of the Tamils living there now (who haven't been recruited or killed by LTTE) can trace their history to this govt. colonization scheme.
  
  

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