"Stop Sri Lanka's genocide of Tamils?" Give me a break.

On the way home from school today I saw a group of people outside City Hall holding signs and posters bearing phrases such as:

"Stop Sri Lanka's Genocide of Tamils!"

"Protect the Tamils!"

... and other similar things.

What a load of crap. I am from India, not Sri Lanka, so you can't say I'm being biased. Sri Lanka does NOT belong to the Tamils. The indigenous Sinhalese people have lived there since before the Christian era and Tamils moved there from 1935-1970 as they were hired by the British for cheap labor.

Today, some Tamils in Sri Lanka are determined to create a country on the north part of the island, called Tamil Eelam. Extremists formed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a group classified by many governments, including those of India, Canada, Australia, and the United States, as a terrorist organization. They have carried out more suicide bombings than the Hamas and Al-Qaeda combined... for nothing. Their own homeland is a mere 10 minute boat-ride away, and surely, true Tamil nationalists would want to return there.

The "genocide" these protestors are speaking of is the attack upon militant terrorists such as the LTTE. They are the ones who hold innocent civilians, and using arms and weaponry to get their way.

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Stop Sri Lanka's genocide of Tamils? More like stop the Tamil's genocide of Sri Lankans!

 

We have them labeled as a terrorist organization? Then what seems to be the problem?

 

That they are brainwashing uneducated people about the situation in Sri Lanka. The LTTE isn't as well known as Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas.

 

people always seem to side with the weak, and automatically see it as the righteous victim, that is being opressed by the more powerful side (which, by definition, has to be an evil genocider)

i would love to see what happens when you present these dim-witted protestors with the hard facts, please let me know when you do [=

 

Sri lanka is in South asia or africa right?

 

I fail to see a right and wrong, but as long as there's fighting, they'll be crossfire, and thus civilian casualties. Civilian casualties will hit the news as genocide.

It's actually just above Uganda, between Norway and Denmark

 

Okay cool yes i think they are marked as terrorists and we should just leave them alone

 

Sri lanka arent marked as terrorists. And sri-lanka is located in asia. Sri Lankan's are niether in war or in any particular position of having terrorists in their country lmfao.

 

no-one said that, you are really like the stupid guru of sythe.

 

Was that a joke? lol.

 

haaaa how about you losers GET F**KED!

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

Do you honestly think the signs should be the other way around? There is no possible way that the Tamils can destruct Sri Lanka seeing as they are the MINORITY.

The signs are just there to aid the minority. Nobody is saying that JUST BECAUSE the Tamils are the minority, they are the ones who are in the right. But excuse me for not buying into your bullsh*t, you obviously don't understand that the reason the Tamils are acting the way they do is because the other retards are pushing them to do so. What are they supposed to do? Just give up and die?

No offense considering you think that you were onto some wonderful discovery of opinion, enough to write a forum about it, but if you were a Tamil living in Sri Lanka how would you feel about it? I live in Perth, Australia, and i was born and raised here, so i'm not biased either. I am Tamil and it hurts me to see what the Tamils are going through every day just because the are the minority.

Much like Hitler and the Jews, The Arian race is like the Singhalese and the Jews are like the Tamils. If you don't see that then you are f**king blind and need to get new glasses or a better education.

 

Caroline, let me first say that there is no archaeological or genetic evidence that the Tamils are indigenous to Sri Lanka. They are from South India. While Prince Vijaya, a North Indian, did eventually come to Sri Lanka (and brought with him the Indo-Aryan language), there were already indigenous Australoid tribes living there, called the Helas. The modern Sinhalese are mostly descended from the Helas.

Tamils were sent to Sri Lanka from 1935-1970 by the British for indentured labor. There are PEACEFUL Tamils in places like Colombo, have you heard of Lakshman Kadirgamar?

The LTTE is a -terrorist organization-. It wouldn't be classified as such if it was justified, in any sense of "right and wrong", in its war against Sri Lanka. The fact is that Prabhakaran is an activist for a nation where Tamil will be the _only_ official language. Why doesn't he fight in India instead? What can he do about all that Hindi imposition in South India? Nothing, of course, India is too strong for rogue separatist terrorism.

In 1956 Sinhala Only Act which initially restricted the fair use of Tamil and English languages. Protests against this policy by the Tamils was met with mob violence that eventually snowballed into the 1958 riots. The LTTE was formed because of the SOA. Black July only happened after the LTTE attacked an SLA base in Jaffna.

The LTTE is the most cowardly separatist movement in existence. They employ child soldiers, women, and even persecute other Tamils. They use cheap tactics (like blowing up water tanks with remote controls), and are the ONLY separatist group in existence who are fighting for a country on land which they have absolutely NO historical claim to.

As a North Indian I am partly related to the Sinhalese and I support them in their struggle against LTTE terrorism. They will not, God willing, surrender an inch of their land to foreign encroaches.

 

The Jaffna Public Reference Library was burnt in 1981 by the Sri Lankan army, destroying all historical evidence of Tamils. In fact, they lived there around ~300bc, not 1935. The group of "tamils" that were brought to work by the British are a completely different group of Indian Tamils.

I know this because my great grandfather had a tea estate.

Not all Tamils are LTTE.

 

Well, the LTTE Tamils are the ones who the SLA are fighting against. Go look at how Tamils in Colombo live in peace with the Sinhalese. Also, even if they were indigenous to Sri Lanka, they would have long since been assimilated by the Sinhalese.