tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post2463694522910175637..comments2024-03-13T21:38:21.872+05:30Comments on Sri Lanka Guardian: Towards a peaceful, equitable and sustainable Sri Lanka (Part 2 )Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-57671316525767947892009-07-30T20:09:09.886+05:302009-07-30T20:09:09.886+05:30Ealam is a big FRAUD. Genocide of Tamils in Sri La...Ealam is a big FRAUD. Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka, Tamil home land, now Sri Lanka ruled by Tamil kings of Tamil Kingdoms, cock and bull running riots. Ealamists buy media , politicians and now historians to carry out the big FRAUD. Next they will say Sri Lanka is a Tamil kingdom all along history. (Or are they saying it already?)Immidiately Sri LAnka must do a historic audit and document it before they come up with the next cock and bull.SL boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02862446966989334113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-83703615228657410362009-07-29T23:29:41.834+05:302009-07-29T23:29:41.834+05:30There appears to be no end to the Eelamist dream. ...There appears to be no end to the Eelamist dream. The author purposefully subverts the whole truth by quoting parts of historical records in order to hide the broader facts. This is all in the service of his thesis about a non-existent "Sinhala Buddhist Chauvinism" and "Tamil Kingdom".<br />The fact is that even his own "evidence" indicates that there was no reference to any identity called "Tamil" until the Brtish took over the island. <br />On the other hand the island has clearly been identified by Monk FaHien (in early 1st millennium)in his Chapter 37:<br /><br />"After this he embarked in a large merchant-vessel, and went floating over the sea to the south-west. It was the beginning of winter, and the wind was favourable; and, after fourteen days, sailing day and night, they came to the country of <b>Singhala.</b>"<br /><br />There is a host of evidence which supports the evolution of an identity called Sinhala on this island for 2000 years. The island itself had been called sinhale which was corrupted to Ceialo, Seylan and Ceylon.<br /><br />It was only in the 19th century that the name of the people of the island (Sinhale) was used to identify a separate ethnic group while a new ethnic group called "Tamul" came into being to counter that. This was in recognition of the difference in language. Just as the people of "Sinhale" called their "siyabasa" sinhala, the previously named "Malabar" now called "Tamul" continued to call their "mother tongue" (Taymoli) in the same way which probably then evolved into "Tamil" to identify it with the ancient sinhala epithet "Damila" (one without Damma).<br /><br />Isn't it time that Tamil-Eelam dreamers (or is it now Thamiz Eezham?) gave it up and joined a Sri Lankan identity? I hear no Sri Lankans call themselves "Sinhala", "Muslim", "Tamil" or "Burgher", except for "Eezham Tamils". It is this desire to be unique and privileged which has landed them in the quandary.<br /><br />While pointing at the mote in the eye of their fellow Sri Lankans, the Eezham Tamil appear to not notice the huge "fascist log" in their own.MayilRavana මයිල් රාවනhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03805237855409252715noreply@blogger.com