Tamil Overkill

Tamils must realise that not even Nostradamus couldn’t come up with a prophesy about a homeland called "Tamil Eelam. "

Let me educate the readers on certain facts coming from an island nation we call Sri Lanka, which some of you may know as Ceylon to remind you the golden colonial era for Tamil. I don’t know how much you know about the recent history over there, there were more Sinhalese killed than Tamils, by Sinhalese law enforcement agencies and Tamils terrorists.

During the leftist JVP insurrection (I) in 1971 scores of Sinhala youth (NOT Tamils mind you) were killed by the very forces you describe as the Sinhalese police and the military. As a kid I saw bodies floating in the Mahaveli river, just too many to count. Some estimates place this figure at 40,000 – they simply disappeared without a trace, names were wiped off registries. They were gone just like the nasty times in Chile during Gen Pinnoche. Then there was the JVP insurrection (II) from 1987~90 during Premadasa era, and more were tortured and senselessly killed by the very same Sinhalese police and the military. This time the toll was much higher, estimates put at least 60,000 killed and missing. I remember seeing plenty of charred bodies of Sinhalese in the suburbs of Colombo, just too gruesome to describe. In total, we can estimate the Sinhalese losses at 100,000 and now add to that another 35,000 as a result of Tamil terrorism since 1983. We have a grand total of 135,000 Sinhalese casualties in the last thirty years as victims of both Tamil terrorism and Sinhalese police and military! I wouldn’t put Tamil casualties more than 30,000 and that includes intragroup killings by Tamils thugs like the LTTE.

Therefore, the Tamils’ hideous declaration that Tamils were victim of systemic oppression in Sri Lanka is a falsehood and fortunately it is not destined to influence future conflicts around the world.

I would make the point that Sinhalese police and the military couldn’t give a hoot about who they confront, unfortunately they are dressed and armed to complete a mission.

Today we all have become victims of vicious violence in Sri Lanka by design and if we go by the casualty figures, the Sinhalese have every right to feel they are the “victimized and oppressed majority” in Sri Lanka. Their voices must be heard first, if not, given the level of hypocrisy and brutality unleashed by the LTTE and Eelamists, the Sinhalese do reserve the right to seek separation from Tamils –imagine what that would do to Tamil heritage in Sri Lanka.