In regards to what?
You are claiming that Indian PM didn't act alone as RAW was involved, therefore India is the culprit.
So what are you suggesting? That Premdasa is the sole culprit as it was he himself who drove a truck filled with concrete and Ak-47s and delivered them to the LTTE to use against Indian soldiers?
What logic.
India giving money for northern SL because of TN pressure....... or else name any other project India started in the Sinhala majority areas for free....
India is developing the Tamil areas because they are the most
underdeveloped part of your country and have been the epicenters of the civil war! If you still consider Tamils as part of your country, you should be happy that India is taking the initiative to develop those parts of your country! Secondly, India has been providing training to your soldiers and police, most of whom are Sinhalese. Also, dolling out business to Sri Lankan yards by handing out ship construction orders for Indian coast guard ships. Last I checked, Sri Lankan yards were handed over business to construct 80 fast interceptor crafts for the Indian navy.
As for "TN pressure", learn a bit about who is sitting in power in Delhi before criticizing them blindly. The TN government has
zero say in India's foriegn policy at the moment as they are
not part of the ruling coalition. Hell, the TN government is not even part of the main opposition! You are just paranoid about TN, it has zero say in India's national policies at the moment.
1. Sinhala only act didn't kicked Tamils out of jobs rather many Tamil civil servants learnt Sinhalese......
"Many" Tamil civil servants may have learnt Sinhalese, but the majority didn't and got kicked out of their jobs.
And, even if, had every single Tamil learnt Sinhalese to keep their job, it is still discrimination.
also when Brits were in control neither Tamil nor Sinhalese was the official language why not Tamils objected about that?
English was not a native language of either Sinhalese or Tamils so you both had equal chances; one group wasn't discriminating another, like the Sinhalese did to the Tamils.
naturally Sinhalese have the right to call Sinhala the official language based upon the majority.......
And my point exactly. With a mindset like that, how can you even dare to compare with India?
anyway no major Tamil politician even objected to Sinhala only act.
Yes, they did. A compromise had to be reached, but it was just the start of the discrimination. Eventually, Sinhalese pushed the Tamils off the edge, which resulted in the civil war.
"the Social Diasbilities Act No. 21 was passed in parliament in 1957 giving lower castes the right to attend schools & kovils. Its good for the western world to know that it was a Sinhalese who opened the doors for low caste Tamils to attend schools & kovils – places that were taboo to them by their own Tamil brethren. No sooner the Tamil high castes & high classes realized the dangers of mainstream parties courting the low castes they devised their response. It was to create the best division possible. A rift between the Tamils & Sinhalese which would strike better success than low caste-high caste divisions. Who remembers the satyagrahas, the tarring of Sinhala letters on vehicle registration numbers. All launched by the ITAC & Tamil Congress – both high caste/class political parties.
It is important to note that all these happened a year after making Sinhala the official language. Why did the Tamils not cry foul over the Sinhala Only Act in 1956 but oppose the Social Disabilities Act on 1957 with such venom? It is because Tamils wanted to deprive their own." LankaWeb – Eelaam Homeland struggle was to hide Tamil Caste difference & unify discontented Tamils
The Tamils protested vehemently against the Sinhala Only Act. Eventually a compromise had to take place in 1958, where the SL government agreed to allow Tamils to use their language, but without according it an official status. That Tamils didn't protest the act is total hogwash. Tamil caste-ism may well have been there, and they may well have been discriminating the lower caste; but, the Sri Lankan government was no saviour. Infact, the percentage of Tamils studying in universities actually dropped after the Sri Lankan government's Policy of standardization! Sri Lankan government started a district-quota system (automatically reserving more seats for the Sinhalese) for admissions to universities and colleges. It was clearly a policy to sideline the more educated Tamils from competing with the less educated Sinhalese.
If you have any doubts about Sri Lanka's racist character at the time; just read the Sri Lankan constitution written in 1972. It re-enforced Sinhalese as the one and only official language, got rid of article 29 of the Soulbury constitution (which ensured a democratic voice to minorities), and made Buddhism the country's prime religion.
And all that, you're telling me, was to protect the low caste Tamils?? Get real.
Government introduced university standardization in 1973 those that opposed were those who were against equitable distribution. Students of all ethnicities from Colombo, Jaffna, Kandy, Galle who had been privy to education opposed opportunities that would be enjoyed by students from Batticaloa, Vanni, Nuwara Eliya, Monaragala & other less developed districts. While the composition of the ethnicities did not change entrance, for Tamils it meant not only the Vellalar caste but lower caste Tamils too would gain university entrance. This was why Tamils opposed the 1973 standardization.
if you aren't sure check Wikipedia
Policy of standardization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From your own wikipedia link:
The qualifying mark for admission to the medical faculties was 250 (out of 400) for Tamil students, whereas it was only 229 for the Sinhalese. Worse still, this same pattern of a lower qualifying mark applied even when Sinhalese and Tamil students sat for the examination in English. In short, students sitting for examinations in the same language, but belonging to two ethnic groups, had different qualifying marks.
4.Those Tamils that their citizenship was striped were Indians coolies brought to SL by Brits to work in tea states... however we kept half the number of them in SL.... and does Sinhalese majority fades away for million of Tamil collie votes? you should also remember that the politician who represents the Tamil collies in SL are always stayed with the central government and not with separatist parties like TNA.
Those "coolies" were there even before Sri Lanka, or even India, gained independence. Most of them, if not all, were
born in Sri Lanka. They were
not citizens of the Indian Republic (even if India may have granted them with OCI status, it does not give them rights in India). Which means that when you took away their citizenship, you rendered them
stateless.
And no, you didn't "keep" half the number, rather, India was kind enough to take them despite them not being citizens of India. The other half, sadly, lived in Sri Lanka as stateless people, without any basic rights.
You compare with India; lest I remind you that India is home to people ranging from Africans (
Siddis) to Chinese (
Indian Chinese) to Persians (
Iranis) to the Arabic Jewish people (
Baghdadi Jews). Thank god the Sinhalese do not comprise a majority group in my country, if the logic you follow is to revoke citizenship of every person whose origins are from elsewhere.
I'm not going to mention everyone but Muralitharan.... also from hill country (an Indian Tamil descended)
I gave you a whole list of Indian Muslims, a minority which you compared to Sri Lankan Tamils, going on to become the Presidents of India; and you give me an example of a cricket player. Wonderful.
what SL needs from GoI is that to stay resolute to TN demands.... we know that TN leaders and most of TN people take decision not from the brain but by the heart...... we need GoI to learn the truth and stay with SL in UNHR..... we want GoI to help in SL development without and hindrance form India.....
Your fear of TN is nothing but a paranoia. As I have stated earlier, the AIADMK is not in a coalition with the ruling Congress party; they are not even in coalition with the main opposition, the BJP led coalition; so I am totally lost as to how on earth you think TN is calling the shots in New Delhi. That is just an absurd assertion, and borders paranoia.