Comments on: Sri Lanka:”Land of Injustice”-by Anita Pratap

By: upul

upul — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:06:23 +0000

I read all these comments carefully.sad to say most of these people do not know actually what is happening in Srilanka. 18% of entire population are tamils in Srilanka.Dear friends, you know more than 12% of tamils are living in colombo and southern part of the country with sinhalaes and muslims peacefuly. What is the discrimination you are talkiing about.

By: raj

raj — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:10:39 +0000

Dingiri Dingiri Dingiri (#13) I will give you that ie your current stats are correct. I am not going to verify that though I have my doubts. The point is, Dingiri Dingiri Dingiri when the system was introduced two things happened. One is the marks were standardized. A Tamil had to get a higher marks for a given grade than the Sinhalese. Then at the time of admission kids from good schools in Colombo could get in with lower grades. I am not sure if both happened simultaneously or one after the other.

And for the Tamils from other places than Jaffna it did not happen to the scale you would imagine at least at that time.

Dingiri Dingiri Dingiri you admit 120 students to engineering in Peradenia and then tell them since you are Tamils only 60 can be in Peradenia and the rest in Katubedde. And the ones who originally got Katubedde had to go to Science. And the science guys had to go home and join a rebellion.

Dingiri Dingiri Dingiri we are only trying to trace the origins of the problem.

By: raj

raj — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:27:09 +0000

Reply to ignorant Bob (#2):

“When was it that the standardization system practiced in the admissions process to universities in Sri Lanka discriminative against Tamils?”

In 1972 from ( from 1970 ) when my good friend from Nalanda ( very good Colombo school ) could enter college with 4S ( ordinary passes ) while my fellow students from Jaffna could not even see the color of a college that year.

Unfortunately Bob like people are like an ostrich. Either they do not want to face reality or they want to live their lives in lies.

By: Sen

Sen — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:35:28 +0000

I am an Indian Tamil. I feel that Problems are on both side.

But it is definitely originated from Colombo.

From an Indian stand point , i think that India should not have sent IPKF. India should not have given arms to Tamil fighters in the 1980’s. It added to the whole mess.

Infact india should have forced colombo to solve the problem peacefully and helped Tamils to get their rights.

Now what the LTTE and SL Govt should realize is that war is not a solution. Especially an able leader from SL govt should emerge and solve the problem.

I ask all my friends here to think about the future. And what can you do for changing the country to peaceful.

If you start critising , you can do that indefinitely.

WAR IS NOT A SOLUTION TO SRILANKA PROBLEM.

All the best .

By: Haha

Haha — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:47:52 +0000

I have scaned through the comments, many sinhala makkal asking when did the SL army burn tamil villages?
Do they really want a list?

I can’t avoid thinking about the Neo Nazists, who are currently stating ” Autswitz Lies..”
Heil Rajapakse!

By: V Siva

V Siva — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:21:16 +0000

Everyone should know that the Eelam Tamils never lived under the Apartheid Sinhala regime. Tamils had their own Kingdom before the colonial rule.

Even the last King of Kandy was an Indian and not a Sinhalese. Politics is changing and state terrorism will come to an end. The theme of Sen. Barack Obama, the next US President, “Change” is supported by the young voters. It is possible that a powerful leader may emerge from South India like the King Chola to destroy Sinhala chuvinism and occupation of Eelam.

By: V Siva

V Siva — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:09:36 +0000

The Sri lankan government continues to commit war crimes against the Tamils and It’s time for the International Community to despatch War Crimes Investogators to Sri Lanka.

Apartheid Sinhala regime is an occupying regime and time is coming for the Tamils to get independence.

By: Oru Manithan

Oru Manithan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:57:41 +0000

well put Anita.hats off to you.if all the journalist were of your caiber then the world would be a better place.The rest of you who debate some points of the speech and fail to see the whole context,i must say that to you ignorance is truely bliss.,

By: Jack Ranasinghe

Jack Ranasinghe — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:25:18 +0000

Dingiri… remember Dr Hoole, the Vice Chancellor of the Jaffna University who was appointed by Mahinda Rajapakse and opposed by the LTTE. He eventually left Sri Lannka and went back to live in the USA and is not a LTTE supporter by any stretch of the imagination.

He relates his own experience of ’standarisation’ and ethnic relations:
(www.federalidea.com)

You can read the article by Ambassador Goonetilleke on the Tamil Homeland Myth. (www.federalidea.com)

The bottom line is that the national situation will only get worse if Sri Lankans (Sinhgala speaking and Tamil speaking) continue to bury their heads in the sand. Wishing it will go away will not make it go away and killing Rajapakse or Prabhakaran will not change anything other than to rachet up the level of violence to come.

By: Jay P

Jay P — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:36:14 +0000

Gentleman, We are spliting hare again for nothing. We are keep going to “Chicken or egg” which comes first story.

What Miss Pradap was telling that “discrimination started long time ago “BUT STANDADIZATION has MADE THE YOUTHS TO TAKE UP THE ARMS. IT WAS THE TIPPING POINT”

In SL history, First notable violence by the Bhudist in this LAND of INJUSTICE was carried out not in 1956 but in 1914 when the Bhudist Clergy in Kandy instigated the Bhudist-Muslim Ethnic cleansing which took the lives of nearly 140+ muslims.

Had the leaders (any responsible one if they had) step into stop this chavonism, there wouldn’t be 1956, 1958 and so on.

Had India stopped the violence on Sikhs after Mrs.Gandhi’s assasination, there would’t be any Barber Mosque distruction and there won’t be any Kujarathi train massacre.

This where the R2P situation comes.

SRILANKA IS IN R2P SITUATION.