Comments on: The voice of conscience

By: Sundram

Sundram — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:00:37 +0000

Very good article.
Many Sinhalese did not want to accept this true history of Lanka. They have been twisting the history to proof that whole of Srilanka only belongs to them.

If they are real Budhdhist they must accept this truth, though that is bitter to them.

Without Sinhalese there is no Srilanka. In the same way even without Tamils there is no Srilanka.

By: Thurai

Thurai — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:33:43 +0000

During the last forty years I have read so many articles and found that they are no use in bringing Sri Lankans to understand the basic idea of power sharing. This resulted in the militancy among the Tamils. I wished that there will be a federal solution but it appears that it is not going to be so.

Failure to produce statemean in the Sinhala community to understand and produce a solution accepatable to the vast majority of Tamils will result sooner or later in the division of the country. The current governement has already accepted that there are two natrions namely Sri Lanka and Thamil Eelam by evicting Tamils from Colombo.

By: MBA

MBA — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:06:35 +0000

Great and excellent extract from the history of Sri Lankan politics toward minority sufferance. As a simple and humble reader. I stress only on one thing that in the modern arena the birth right must be interpreted, that those whoever born in this great piece of the Island, is belong this nation. They are Sri Lankan like any other majority Sri Lankan�

No peace will remain to this nation until and otherwise, the majority ethnic should call and recognize that every person born in this country are Sri Lankan, and they belong to this country and they have every right and every respect too�

No word to say thanks to this writer� Its excellent keep it up

unrivaled, peace loving non-political Sri Lankan.

MBA

By: Thanabal

Thanabal — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:31:42 +0000

“The mishandling of passive Tamil resistance by the Sinhala polity, often by the use of state force and at times by unleashing communal violence, has sown the seeds for Tamil militancy. The failure, to date, to remedy the root cause for militancy and large scale migration of disheartened Tamils have contributed significantly towards the growth of militancy to the extent of a warring force.”

The above message should be LOUD AND CLEAR to GoSL in the days to come

By: Jeronimo Azavedo

Jeronimo Azavedo — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:54:49 +0000

Thevarajah is composing history to support his arguments. True, Riberio writes of many kingdoms in Sri Lanka, but he also writes of an Emporer. All Portuguese and Dutch treaties mention this Emporer (In Kotte and later Kandy). All Portuguese and Dutch maps of Sri Lanka refers to many kingdoms and also to Imperio de Cota (Imperial Kotte)

The first Tamil language inscription found in Jaffna is one by Parakramabahu I of Polonnaruwa.

All these does not quite fit Thevarajah’s arguments.

I suggest that Thevarajah and the Tamil cause should stop trying to abuse history to support the aspirations of what is today a 4% minority in Sri Lanka.

You can fight for another 100 years, twisting history and terrorising everyone until the Tamil cause extinguishes itself.

By: Ilamathy

Ilamathy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:39:47 +0000

This is the condensed history of the Tamil’s struggle. Anybody read this article would have noticed the evolution of our stuggle. It is too late for Federal set up.
As this article appeared in “The Island” I hope at least a few Sinhalese would have read this article and should have noticed the evolution.
We should continue our struggle until we reach the parity.
Thanks for republishing.

By: G.de Silva

G.de Silva — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:12:36 +0000

Sri Lanka is indeed the country of all commiunities including Sinhalese,Tamils,Muslims,Burgers etc who are citizens of the country.All these ethnic commiunities should have equal rights an any citizen is entitled to without any question.Sinhala and Tamil should have been the official languages of the country.Making Sinhala the official language not only affected the Tamils,but also many Sinhalese as well.Sri Lanka should perseive towards establishing a Sri Lankan culture for all ethnic commiunities could embrace.