A neutral observer who follows developments in Sri Lanka from the Colonial Times up to the present day would realize that Tamils have been the greatest beneficiaries of the Colonists. Even more than six decades after the independence from the colonists the situation remains the same. Their generosity towards Tamils is such that they are hell bent to carve out a separate state in Sri Lanka exclusively for Tamils. This phenomenon is of course historically connected fact. Though no one makes serious attention to probe why it has been so, the simple reason is that the Whites feel obliged to paying back what they owe to Tamils: the generosity displayed by Tamils by being their ass lickers for generations. In contrast Sinhalese have historically been the ass kickers of the Whites. So It is quite understandable why Sinhalese have become the prime target of the Whites to the extent of dislodging them from their motherland.
During the span of almost 500 years of colonial times the Colonists were consistently harassed by the Sinhalese, depriving their opportunity to plunder our land with ease. There had been numerous armed uprisings by the Sinhalese throughout the colonial period resulting in mass scale genocidal slaughters against Sinhalese with their religion and property being destroyed and the lands robbed. The harshest among the three colonists against Sinhalese were the British. In contrast Tamils were granted vastly disproportionate superficial benefits at the expense of Sinhalese who were the vast majority and the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka.( I have discussed these vastly disproportionate benefits offered to the Tamils in one of my previous posts and will continue to write more on the subject in future posts too). Due to the very fact that Tamils had been the great ass lickers of the Whites they took them to most of their colonies. The Dutch and Portuguese started this by bringing down Tamils from South India to Jaffna to cultivate tobacco. The present day Tamils population in Jaffna is the descendents of those tobacco cultivators. British colonists followed suit by taking them to their colonies such as Malaysia, South Africa and Sri Lanka etc.
3 comments:
honestly, colonialism had more to do with class than with race
Is it fair to characterize an entire race as 'ass-lickers'? No.
too simplistic an assessment. It is natural for minorities to gain position in a divide and rule policy and even in Saddam Husseins regime it was the minority who ruled over a majority and now there is perpetual violence as they the minority cannot stomach the current status quo.
Eitherway ass lickers or not the SL govt is not doing themselves any justice in the reaction to these allegations, and having one message to the local gallery and another for international consumption is tantamount to fraudulent rule only to gain votes or keep them by lying to the general public.
You my friend are a fascist, clouded by Government propaganda. Your simplification of the mountains of evidence that implicates the Government systematically killing Tamil civilians is no different from denying the holocaust.
Sure the LTTE are an evil themselves, but the SL government/army is no different from Hitler's SS.
As WWII reached its dying throws, the Nazis did everything they could to hide the evidence. But the truth always comes out one way or the other. And Mahitler Rajapakse's genocide has already been revealed to the world.
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