Dr. Sudath Gunasekara.
Mahanuwara 14. May. 2024.
I am attaching herewith a very important Article by D.B.S. Jeyaraj. (Lankaweb. 14.5.2024) You all must read this article and take immediate steps to defeat this notion. I maintain we all must work very hard and fight tooth and nail to stop this disaster come true. You may use the following arguments to defeat this nuisance once and for all.
1 Tamils in the N & E are only descendants of Malabar slave coolies brought by Dutch after 1667 and British in later years to work on their projects and also to settle in the N & East as farmers to change the demographic pattern of the Island, to destroy the Sinhala Buddhist civilization on this land that had been there from 543 BC and 307 BC.
Legally the Tamils in the N&E are defined as Malabar inhabitants of the Peninsula of Jaffna” by the British. To that extent they were foreigners on this island even at that time and in fact these people have been described as migrant labourers and the Sinhalese as natives of this Island, even by the invaders. Many a foreign writer such as Balthies (1650-1665), Captain Robert Percival, The GA (CP) Ackland Dyke, Philppus Balaeus and Queros have confirmed it. All have named them as immigrants labour.
They were named as Sri Lankan Tamils in 1901 only by the father of present-day Tamil nationalism Arunachala Ponnambalan the forefather of EELAM and LTTE. Till then, they were a minority, Malabr slave coolies of the British invaders. However, they became the majority (rather made so), by the invaders to destroy the Sinhala Buddhists civilization in this country.
1.In this backdrop they cannot claim to be a nation here as they claim. Their nationality lies only in South India, Malabar District.
2. The Tamils in the hill country were again brought in by the British as slave labour from Moona Pudur in South India, as the Kndyans were either murdered or chased out to the eastern jungles. The left behind proud Kandyan Sinahalese in valley bottoms refused to labour for Foreigners. The invader had a human gold mine in South India where thousands were dying of hunger. The first batch of few fellows were brought in 1838. Starting from 1840s as the demand increased, they were driven down like cattle in 10s of thousands and the number increased to 1.2 million by 1911. These labourers annually went to India to deposit what they saved and therefore none had been permanently resident here up to 1950s,
Countries like Burma and Uganda chased them out. The bunch of our politicians who were only proxies of the British never had an atom of patriotism or the brain to follow suit, and who also did not have any vision of nation building did not attend to this all-important crisis in time.
Finally, the most unpatriotic leader of the UNP who initiated the present political, economic and social downfall of this country awarded full citizenship to all Tamils in the hill country and even those kallathhonies on the street all over the country under the JR /Rajiv accord of 30th July 1987. Mind you, he made them citizens of this country on an affidavit signed on a Rs 1 stamp before a JP of their choice, violating all accepted norms and legal conditions of granting citizenship of a country. But none of them renounced their diehard Indianness. The most daring contradiction here is none of them have renounced their Indianness up to date. With all these political juggleries they have only 37 years of illegal citizenship rights here. Making things even worse as they now claim 200 years of citizenship here calling themselves forming, an organization called “Nam 200 Years” What is worse is they had a celebration of Nam 200 in Colombo recently with lot of fanfare where many foreign organizations and Diplomats, I think even the infamous American Ambassador Juli was present.
What was unbelievable was even the President and the Prime Minister who were there, acknowledged this bogus claim. What a pity to have such national leaders for a country, who do not know the history of this country and the identity of the nation. of this Island. Now on the top of this intrigue they have already labeled themselves as a nation, called Malaiyagath Thamizhar” (Hill Country Tamils). Pretending that already they own the central highland, comprising about 1/3 of the land area Island, that had been owned by the native Sinhalese from the dawn of history on this Island. The worst joke here is that a government elected by the Sinhala Buddhist also accepts these names as legal and confer legitimacy on these illegal anti Sinhala anti Buddhist organization, within the sovereign territory of this small Island nation. Where do you think these unpatriotic and treacherous politicians should be sent. In my opinion even the Aviichi Mahaa Naarkaadhiya” is not enough for these traitors.
Recently both Ranil and Premadasa have promised to make these Tamils, the owners of these estates by divesting the land rights on them and providing houses as well calling themselves The Dollar earners and people who provide a space for the nation to breath. These statements clearly show the ignorance of these so-called leaders. Do they know that today the tea industry of this country thrives on the low grown[S1] tea that accounts for 65 % of the total production as well as the income. and these estate labour has become a veritable political. economic and social nuisance and a national liability.
Premadasa has already vouched them to make them the owners of these tea estates.
Ranil on the other hand has promised to increase their wages by 1700 to entice them to vote him at the forthcoming Presidential election. In addition to his promise already made to give land and houses to them. All these flabbergasting are mere political gimmick.
Do these treacherous politicians know that this land belongs to the Bhoomiputras of this Island, the Sinhalese from the dawn of history. Do they know that this land was illegally appropriated by the British invaders after1840 by either mass murder or chasing out all those survived. I pause the question to Ranil and Premadasa what mandate you have got from the sons of the soil to make such dream promises of this kind. Do these lands belong to their grandfathers and grandmothers. Has any government or a politician since 1948 taken any step to return this land to its original owners.
I call upon all the Sinhala people living in the Kandyan areas not to vote these treacherous political opportunists. Chaise them out with the Bolaththa. Let thembecome Presidents with the Estate Tamil vote (4.1%), and 11 % Tamil votes in the North and the East together with the Muslim vote if they can. NO Sinhala man or woman should vote these traitorous polititians. The Sinhala people living within the Kandyan areas works out to be 7 million. I also call upon all Sinhala patriots, firstly to denounce and condemn the statements made by Ranil and Sajith Premadasa on this issue and make a public outcry and to demand them to make an open apology to the Sinhala people in this country for the treacherous public statements they have made or withdraw immediately from the presidential race. It was the brave Kandyans whose fore fathers fought against the enemy for 443 years sacrificing everything they had including the loved ones and their own land and lives. Not only these two persons but all such utterly ignorant and treacherous men and women in this country should at least now understand it was those brave Kandyan patriots who protected the motherland against three brutal and uncivilized invaders, saved it for the future generation and stopped Sri Lanka becoming another Philippine or a land named after a sea pirate or an inhuman name like Brownrigg or Torrington
I as Sinhala Buddhist have no objection for their being on our soil, provided they renounce all attachments to India and get integrated with the native Sinhalese and change their names to Sinhala as they did in Burma, immediately after independence in 1947 and decide to live as Sinahla people along with the Sinhala brothermen as it has been so throughout history, when the Sinhala Kings of the yore were reigning, unlike the present day self-centered treacherous politricians.
I please remember with extreme cation what JBS had said in his article I n a situation where the Sinhala vote is trifurcated, the Tamil and Muslim votes, if delivered en bloc, may determine who the 2024 Presidential hustings victor is likely to be”