Ending The Tamil Eelam Myth For Good” - Sri Lanka Saturday, January 24, 2009

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“Ending The Tamil Eelam Myth For Good” - Sri Lanka Saturday, January 24, 2009
S de Silva


Please accept my appreciation for the above publication and convey my sentiments to the writer Mr Janaka Yarigala for his accurate and short-form explanation of the background for the ‘reasons’ behind the claim for a separate Homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka. As you have already identified, the action for all concerned is to bring to the top of the agenda the demolition of this homeland myth via all media.


Actually there are 3 myths which are the pillars on which rest the bogus homeland theory awaiting demolition. They all have to be disposed of as substantially bogus propaganda by the LTTE, not once but repeatedly and regularly through all media.


1. The bogus traditional Homeland myth; 2. The bogus discrimination myth; 3. (More recently) The bogus ‘genocide’ myth. I would like to see a follow up for this article by the same author that may include the following:

1a. Bogus Homeland Theory – To demolish the theory that it was three separate homelands (?) consisting of two separate home lands (N + E) for the Tamils and one for the Sinhala (or the Hela) nation brought together by the British for convenience of administration which should have been handed back to the Tamils on Independence and that is what is being asked for – the “return of their goods taken illegally by the British” !! Apart from that, what is asked for this mythical ‘Elam’ state is approximately 30% of the land and 60% of the coastline for the exclusive benefit of 20% of the national population who are Tamil of which half are already in the Sinhala areas. There is also then the question of the Tamils in the Sinhala areas after Elam – are they all in the South going back to Elam ? Finally, on this point of historical background I believe that a new Law has to be brought in to make it an offence to deny Sinhala history, like the law on ‘holocaust denial’ in Germany and the Tamil propaganda machine thoroughly continuously exposed for manufacturing and prostituting history. This whole claim is an utter fraud.


1b. Tamilising of Sinhala Place Names – I once listened to Rev. Elle Gunawansa in London over 30 years ago where he predicted that all Tamils have to do to claim Elam based on a traditional Tamil Homeland is to simply change existing Sinhala place names to Tamil – and automatically in a few generations there will be a Tamil Homeland – He could not have been more correct. A new policy should be in place right now where all such places have to be identified and progressively changed to the original Sinhala name and use of the present name not legally recognised. This should start with Kilinochchi – which should be renamed to ‘Giranikka’ with the original Sinhala name and simultaneously postcoded in English to minimise any backlash, as a temporary measure, so that the place could be identified my the postal services with or without the revised place name. ( I believe the Railway and the Post Office already have place codes for Killinochi for internal use. Tamils cannot really moan when the names of Indian cities of Madras and Bombay have been changed on similar reasoning).


2. Bogus claim of discrimination - Tamils conveniently start the ‘discrimination’ argument from 1956. Actually, what they lost in 1956, if anything, is privilege but managed to package that cunningly as loss of basic human rights to fool the gullible West. (If they said ‘privilege’ instead of human rights no one would listen and the reply would have been that Tamils should not have had privilege in the first place!). The truth is that for 150years the majority Sinhala (> 75%) was discriminated by the British in favour of the minority Tamils as an integral part of the strategy by the British to ‘divide and rule’ simply because ruling that way is easier. 1956 was the beginning of the loss of privilege by the Tamils when Tamils had, like the Sinhala, to fight equally for a fair slice of the national cake. Tamils should not be allowed to start the debate from 1956 but. Instead, if the Tamils wasn’t a debate, we should force them to begin the debate from 1815.


3. The bogus ‘genocide’ myth – There is absolutely no truth in this as you have pointed out and Tamils should be challenged to provide the evidence or made to suffer the financial consequences for false propaganda.