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Without understanding the problem from the Sinhalese perspective and just associating racism with everything will take you no where.

This is my last post.

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You should also understand the problem from the perspective of others. When the agreement was signed between the Srima and sastri and it is in force why are you raking up the citizenship rights of the plantation tamils.

If you want to revisit the sirima-sastri accord then there are scores of people in India who will want to scrap the sirima-sastri accord and also other accords like kachateevu etc.

If we are going to scrap accords then it will only lead to anarchy.

Be accomodative man.

Also do not sound the last post. That is for the retreating army to do or it is generally done for the fallen soldiers.

Come back man. Have spirit.

I have heard the story why the Tamils proposed 50-50. 201 and others were to prove that your use of ethnic ratios to justify 50-50 was wrong.

Long before Sinhalese started trampling on rights of Tamils, their own rights were trampled endlessly, by the British and Tamils were part of the game– don’t forget that before standardization 45% of engineering undergraduates were “local” Tamils and post independence civil service was 60% Tamil– all these people had been drawn from a community less than 12%.

When it was proposed to atomic bomb Japan, did the US view that as maniacal? Forget about then, what about US now? Today the Australians won’t touch the Tamil refugees with a ten foot long pole. This is not a couple of million people we are talking but a few dozen. What’s more they quickly changed UN guidelines on refugees to not be obligated to accommodate these people in their country. Yet, you believe Australians would have faired better than Sinhalese had they been in the same shoes… well, suite yourself.

If we live in an ideal world, having Indian Tamils would not have been a problem. However, given the ethnic tensions between Sinhalese and local Tamils, it was wise, justified and reasonable for Sinhalese to have campaigned that Indian Tamils be relocated to their country. Been born in a country does not automatically make you a citizen of that country– go read the present immigration laws of UK.

Even today, Sinhalese before they sympathize with the Indian Tamils they better worry about their own survival. Indian Tamils can look to Indira to save their ass, but when the time comes its only the man upstairs Sinhalese have to turn for help! Without understanding the problem from the Sinhalese perspective and just associating racism with everything will take you no where.

This is my last post.

Fine, I’m THE racist. What about your 206 mate? Have a nice day.

First you introduce enough aliens without the consent of the majority. Then you say look, Sinhalese are no longer in clear majority so lets do 50-50!@#$%^&*

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Navin you want to play the number game. Even to assauge your feelings that the sirima-sastri pact was signed. It is not fair to talk about the Plantation Tamils as aliens even after this.

After the July 1983, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said she wanted to militarily interfere in sri lanka. She said she hesitated just because she was worried about the fate of the Plantation Tamils at that time.

The plantation Tamils have helped you by their presence at that time.

I agree. Sinhalese dont have a religion of their own, worship an indian Lord Buddah. but boast about their culture and kingdoms. what a joke !!!

Indian plantation workers though illiterate and in pathetic conditions in Srilanka are living in peace with Sinhalese.

You are racist not because you support the majority.

You are racist because you are against people from another race even though they live in harmony and cause no harm to the majority Sinhalese.

What good is a second airport at Hambantota when the first is woefully underused?

What about the Katuyanake-Colombo express road that we have been waiting for for fifteen years?

The current Chinese situation is different. They are in the country to do a specific job and the expectation is that they will leave once that is done. People understand that and accept that.

The fact that infrastructure projects are being built in Lanka with Chinese Labour is a scandal.

As for Navin’s wish to expel a couple of million people who have lived in Lanka for generations it is the kind of thing that would be viewed as maniacal if for example it were proposed in Australia and the UK. Does Navin think the Australians have the right to throw out all the Sri Lankans living there?

As for Stephen jones whom you mention often as arguing for ponnambalams 50:50, i didn’t see him arguing anything. He was merely pointing out the demographic structure at that time.

Exactly. The point is it is wrong to use the demographic structure at the time to justify 50-50!

Due to presence of Indian Tamils the Sinhalese percentage was just 66% as apposed to 73% today. Jones was arguing reduction in representation for Sinhalse due to 50-50 would thus be a mere 10% (he approximated 66 with 60) and not 23%.

That is a cunning way to prune political rights of the Sinhalese. First you introduce enough aliens without the consent of the majority. Then you say look, Sinhalese are no longer in clear majority so lets do 50-50!@#$%^&*.