March 4, 2010 is a very special day for Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan capital changed from the North Central towards the South West since Polonnaruwa fell in 1215 following Kalinga Magha’s invasion. This exposed the North, North-East, North-West and the East to outside invasion and trespassing. As a result, a very large number of people from Tamil Nadu came to Sri Lanka. To make matters worse, since 1505 to 1948 Sri Lanka’s Maritime Provinces were under European colonialists and they paid no regard to Lankan borders. Even mythical tales of an ancient Tamil kingdom in Sri Lanka don’t go beyond 1215 suggesting the enormous threat that emerged since Lankans gave up defending their North-East sea boundaries. Interestingly the landmass claimed as ‘Tamil homelands’ in Sri Lanka are areas closest to Tamil Nadu clearly suggesting strong Tamil Nadu influence and creation of the Tamil separatist movement. Even after Independence illegal migration from Tamil Nadu continued. Illegal migration was identified as the biggest threat to national security and national economy in the 1950s and remained so until late 1970s.
Scientific reasons for this are found in the disparities in the economy and population density. GDP per capita (nominal 2008) for Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu are $2,020 and $1,105 respectively. The difference is a huge 83% or $915. Population density of Tamil Nadu is a staggering 480 persons per square kilometre whereas it is 304 in Sri Lanka. The difference is 56%. These two factors drive poor people in Tamil Nadu to illegally migrate to Sri Lanka. At one point Tamil population excluding Muslims was over 26% of the population threatening to exacerbate existing problems.
There is another hidden dangerous development. As time passes Sri Lankans naturally integrate with each other and this harmonises the society. However, unhindered influx of people from Tamil Nadu reverses this process of natural integration by artificially and unsustainably increasing the Tamil population. This is evident from the censuses of 1971 and 1981. Though illegal immigrants were despatched in 1964 and 1974 back to Tamil Nadu, a large number of them managed to evade it. Sinhala and Muslim population growth rates from 1971 to 1981 were 20% and 26% respectively whereas the Indian Tamil population decreased by 30%. However, ‘Sri Lankan Tamils’ showed a massive increase of 33%. Surely this cannot be a natural increase. It is the result of ‘Indian Tamils’ becoming ‘Sri Lankan’ Tamils.
The war saw the emigration of 1.3 million Tamils. Though unintended this opened up better avenues for ethnic integration. It also reduced the bargaining power of racist political parties such as the TULF, TNA, ACTC and ITAK. Unless the borders are tight, the benefits of demographic changes that naturally eased tribal demands and aspirations over the past 30 years will not help Sri Lanka. It is a must in this regard to safeguard the coastline.
Those who are citizens of this country at the moment are equal citizens of Sri Lanka like any other; however, there should be no room for any more illegal immigrants. Major tasks of the Sri Lanka Coastguard would be to deter, prevent and detect illegal immigration from Tamil Nadu. Curbing illegal migration out of Sri Lanka will also be a task. Australia and Italy suffer unbearable influxes of Tamil illegal migrants from Sri Lanka. As such they would be keen to contribute to this project. It will benefit both parties.
It didn’t take long for drug dealers and illegal importers to exploit the illegal immigration channel between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. By the early 1970s this illegal channel had grown into a multi-million rupee illegal import industry. Criminals also used this channel to escape Sri Lankan authorities. Before long, the Tamil separatist movement had detected this as a gold mine to launch their armed uprising. A very large number of guns, ammunition, bombs and other war material found their way to Sri Lanka’s north. It is not rocket science that an effective navy would have put a complete stop to the LTTE. LTTE leaders travelled to and from Vanni to Tamil Nadu while Tamil Nadu leaders travelled to Vanni without any fear. This fuelled the concept that ‘Tamil Elam’ and Tamil Nadu are a grand nation unhindered by Sri Lanka and India. Peaceful Tamil Elam circles refer to this as ‘Tamil demographic contiguity’. At one point LTTE could muster its control over 66% of Sri Lankan coastline and resources. After a long battle Sri Lankan claimed it’s coastline in 2009. Hard fought territorial victories must be protected. The Tamil Elam movement although homeless, is not dead. It is taking its time to launch the next round of terror. Sri Lanka Coastguard (SLC) along with the security forces must put up a formidable frontline against these elements.
Although coming under the Ministry of Defence, SLC will be manned by civil officers. Their tasks are not confined to defence. Preventing illegal fishing/gathering pearls in Sri Lankan waters is also a task that can be supported by the SLC. Protecting other Sri Lankan economic interests closer to shore will also fall on it. Although piracy is not common around the waters of the island, there is a strong possibility of it emerging as shipping volumes increase. SLC must keep a close watch over signs of trouble and swiftly move in with the navy to crush all attempts to introduce piracy in presently safe waters around the country.
If efficiently carried out, the tasks of the SLC will be able to deliver this once peaceful and prosperous nation from a 800 year old vicious cycle of ethnic disharmony, threats to sovereignty and violence. Severing unwanted, unchecked and non-state links with Tamil Nadu is the stepping stone to lasting peace.
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«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 616 of 616Blogger Thusitha said...
දේශපාලුවා said...
By the way what do you guys think about the new idea that Fonseka made the infamous Chanel 4 video?
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Mate,
This is a gem.
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Yes, its easy to paste this on SF as he has already shown he has secret connections with Channel 4.
Beside the Chanel 4 video, has no cameraman, no body knows who shot it, no body knows the identity of the shooters or the victims, where it took place and when.
If they can provide at least one of those , it can be independently verified. IE they have taken every possible cautionary action to stop verifying its authenticity.
Then C-4 is the only media outlet to meet the weapons dealer of a banned terrorist network.
If properly done this could lead to severally eroding the remaining faith on Fonseaka and even Chanel 4 news.
Blogger Pol Sambol said...
In schools history is not taught any more
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Pol this is a good topic. At the moment our histroy is the written history , there has been no or very little attempt to do archeological experimets ,and other scientific experimets to complemet the written stroy.
There are huge lapses in the written hostory.
What happened to all the "Yaksha" "Naga" people who lived here, before the Aryan migration?
Can we genetically identify their decedents?
Are the Indian invasions from Dravidian races?
Sena and Guttika the first invaders, these names are not even Dravidian?
How can two horse traders seize a kingdom without internal support?
What is the Arya chakravarthydynasty?
Are they Dravidians?
If so why do they have "Arya" infront of their name?
There are some interesting interpretations in Dr. Nalin De Silva's writeups in Vidusara.
Sporadic but interesting.
One of the biggest problems many have with Mahavamsa is that there is a lot of archaeological evidence that backs up most of it. There is also mythology in it which cannot be backed up. The fact that Mahavamsa is a complete history of Sinhalese with the most relevant portions (no Tamil homoland) and evidence of Sinhala domination in the North having archaeological evidence (stone inscriptions, geographic locations being matched) readily available is why there is much scorn poured on it to the point Sinhalese do not talk openly nor discuss it. Furthermore attempts to carry out additional archaeological work has always been blocked as the conclusions are feared because certain people might get upset.
When excavations were done on Ashoka’s Empire in India the Mahavamsa was used as guide.
In the Soulbury Commission report in 1946 Tamils called it "discrimination" when archaeological work was being done in Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa and demanded it be stopped. They had "grievances" even then.
It is disappointing when Sinhalese look up to the West as grand and great, ignoring the amazing achievements of our own, worse is the Tamilisation of it all.
The ancient irrigations systems because they happen to be in the North are deemed as "works of Tamils". Once the Guardian UK referred to Polonnaruwa as an ancient Tamil city citing it as an example of Sinhala "encroachment" on Tamil lands and added that to the "list" of woes.
diyasena,
"Ilmenite, Rutile (Titanium oxides) and Zircon in the sands of Puhul-motey..Later on I read their is thorium deposits off SL coast"
thanks for the info.
i knew titanium was there but not others. this is very interesting!!!
thorium is nuclear stuff!!!
but as you say we don't know WHERE IT IS. i read somewhere SL has URANIUM too but it didn't mention WHERE.
hop authorities know where it is and take preventive measures to guard our natural resources. otherwise we will be faced with covert invasions by strange nations (and not so strange ones too!!!) trying to rob this valuable resource.
when US was carrying out nuclear tests after eistein urged the USA to use his formulas and make a nuke bomb ASAP. russians stole the secrets and many US scientists were KGB informants.
but russia couldn't develop large scale nuke bombs for some time bcos they didn't have uranium, etc. (at that time it was not discovered within russia). but east germany had. they pumpued out almost all nuclear fule material out of east germany in a mad rush.
of course SL's nuke stuff cannot be so much but will be worth for another nation to do something to get it.
will do some research and share the info here.
ninja,
from the SL history i have read in the last couple of years...........primary school in SL didn't teach this part.
young prince kirthi (???) later became king as parakramabadu-1.
it was not easy. he had to battle his cousins.
unlike previous kings, he didn't spare his rivals.
he SURELY had the fonseka-syndrome to SOME extent.
he launched an agressive industrial drive. raised taxes. built tanks, irrigation systems.
then the fonseka syndrome struck again.
for some reason he wanted to attack tamil nadu to cambodia region. the stated reason given was the cambodian MF king disrespected a sinhala princess who was on a pilgrimage there. a massive war was lauched and the cambodian MF was killed.
then the king met a sexy lass in a place called sinhapura (in orissa????). he screwed her and the nissankamalla was born.
after the war victory he was very confident. out of over confidence he attacked SL's arch rival tamil madu. by then chol(er)a dynasty was totally fcuked up and it was ruled by the pandyans. at fist our boys did well but soon started taking losses. quick thinking led the king to leave tamil madu with dignity.
after him, nissankamalla took reigns. he too invaded tamil madu. he maintained prosperity built up by his father. but was less harsh.
a few years after him, kalinga magha attacked SL. kalinga = orissa.
there can be a connection between nissankamalla and magha.
some TEs today try to make kalinga magha a tamil!! for them everything is tamil. copenhegan is pure tamil!!
alhough magha was screwed in 21 years, due to a lack of a multitude of challenges to the throne from WITHIN, the king assumed all power and no challenges and did as he wished.
by then ppl had started to neglect north central irrigation systems and malayria was also rampant. to make matters worse a series of tamil madu invasions also happened at this time. all this led to change the capital to dambadeniya.
true, it was not magha's short term of 21 years that changed the history. there were other contributory factors. north central kingdoms bumped back from 44 years elara, 77 years of chol(er)a. so 21 years should have been nothing. the above are the other reasons.
we have to look at the regional power shifts at that time.
chol(er)a empire was crashing. orissa was doing better.
strangely ganghis khan was having his adventures ROUGHLY during the time of nissankamalla and his successor.
OBVIOUSLY info about his actions reached SL, indian nations, etc.
we need some research into this thing.
angelo,
fully agree with you, except for the following.
"Just as Israel wishes to have Jerusalaem as its eternal capital, Tamil Nadu views North and East of Sri Lanka as an extension of itself."
jerusalem is israel's pride though CAPITAL as such is tel aviv. but it is totally different to this case. true, india wants to have a PERMANANT foothold in SL. but jerusalem belongs to israel.
wrong example.
there is NO country called palestine. it is like ELAM. arabs call israel, palestine as tamil madu guys call SL, elam. palestinians are 100% arabs. their language, songs, dancing, food, films, religion, everything is arab. they cry genocide but their population is growing faster than the fastest growing pig farm in the world.
don't compare palestine to SL. palestine = tamil elam.
unfortunately MR DOES NOT SEMM to have grasped this indian plan very well. he still worships india. this is disastrous for SL. he also seems to have a TWISTED view about the NON ALIGN movement.
non align does NOT mean not alligned to ANY country. it only means not alligned to both US/UK/france group and russia.
alligiance or otherwise to china or india has nothing to do with the spirit of the non allign movement. SL can still remain a good NAM country with strong defence ties with china, india, etc.
govt ALLOWING the creation of a divide in SL (india in the north and china in the south) is a mistake. india should be asked to support WHEREEVER SL SPECIFIES unless it is essentially a regional project.
pol,
agree with you.
in addition, govt must improve the economic clout of patriotic SLs.
if patriotism is tied to economic prosperity, like in israel, russia, india, australia, japan, malaysia, etc., it will be IMPOSSIBLE not to have patriotism in the society.
today what happens is the exact opposite.
traitors have a bigger economy than patriots in SL!!! this encourages pl to adapt the trecherous behaviour.
recolonization is a good start. this is a sure way to tie nationalism to economic SURVIVAL let alone prosperity. this is even stronger.
govt should start an entrepreners' university. turn to capitalism.
when SL was the pearl of the indian ocean, grainary of the east, it was a fully fledged capitalist country.
BJP in india did a great job in converting a generally pro-socialist india into a capitalist one. same could have been done without shivasena crappies.
POLS
[What is the Arya chakravarthydynasty? Are they Dravidians? If so why do they have "Arya" infront of their name?
One of the biggest problems many have with Mahavamsa is that there is a lot of archaeological evidence that backs up most of it. There is also mythology in it which cannot be backed up. The fact that Mahavamsa is a complete history of Sinhalese with the most relevant portions (no Tamil homoland) and evidence of Sinhala domination in the North having archaeological evidence (stone inscriptions, geographic locations being matched) readily available is why there is much scorn poured on it to the point Sinhalese do not talk openly nor discuss it.
Furthermore attempts to carry out additional archaeological work has always been blocked as the conclusions are feared because certain people might get upset. When excavations were done on Ashoka’s Empire in India the Mahavamsa was used as guide.
In schools history is not taught any more "because it offends Tamils", many Sinhalese have no clue who they are, fall for Tamil and suddha lies and only know how to follow & worship suddha, "there way is better". Tamils do not have this problem because the current "curriculum" and suddha worshipping culture benefits them as they are taught their bogus history, how they are suddhas "chosen ones" and how Sinhalese stole everything from them. Their community preaches hate for Sinhalese and always portray themselves as victims; hence whatever they do no matter how barbaric is justified. They also have no problem using deceit.]
WOW! EXCELLENT!
Thanks brother for raising this burning awareness that most of us Sinhela Patriots (both pseudo and real) have had in their bones always, but could never talk about it for the reasons you have given (not me brother, as you know).
Even my nephews/nieces in SL don’t know about the brave Sinhela warrior kings and what they did for our MaathraBhumiya so that these same club-going teenagers who have an attitude along the lines of I-care-fcuk-about-my-history can today live in a land that they can call their own – instead of being in a subservient, satellite outpost of dog-fucking, road-shitting, TamilNadu state of Federal India!
What a pity…the full blame for this calamity should rest with the arsehole JR Jayawardena and his equally loathsome arsehole nephew Ranil Wickremashinge for erasing Sinhela history from the curricula in schools.
However, no excuse to blame them only as that stupid whore-cow, CBK, did nothing to erase this genocide of Sinhela culture by those two western anglicized, Christian-bent motherfuckers.
OaO Asithri
MD on 21st March - does that mean SL's north-east (not north and east. only the north-east bit) coast has undiscovered minerals?????
Mineral deposits to be surveyed !
Monazite deposits have phorium in them and the radio activity detectors will trace the monazite deposits comprising phorium a very valuable mineral,” Dr. Wijayananda said.
He said this project which is of national importance was to be tried out years ago.
But since it was highly risky for the research aircraft to fly low specially in Northern and the Eastern off shore areas due to possible LTTE attack, the airborne expedition had been suspended, he said. The chairman revealed that negotiations with several foreign funding technical agencies were being initiated pending Cabinet approval.
[Schools and media must ensure nationalism is inoculating into the people, making them fully ready to also answer/counter the bs against us spread by Tamilia and the West (people do not know the truth and fall for this crap then get push around easily). ]
Pol Sambol, old chap, I had an article written summarizing our history as a direct rebuttal to separatist canard: "Sri Lanka was never under unified rule during the time of the Sinhala kings". Since the comment count has become quite large now is good time to do a new post. Everybody please switch over to the new post.
Cheers!
@ History
Thanks MD. Never heard that part before.
Its the education minister Baduddeen who removed history from sylabus. I think that was done as a corrective action against 71 insurgency. Arguement was
Teaching subjects like history, litriture make jobless scholars
=> As they are scholars they do not go for farming or available employement which usually requires less educational qualifications
=> They wait for suitable jobs
=> Frustation
=> Link with JVP/maxist parties
=> Revolution to change system
=> 71
So the reverse process end up in not teaching history and litriture. JRJ regime followed the same logic.
Now history was not tought for 30 years means one generation knows nothing about own history.
Even now they teach history like.. "there was king elara in north, and prince dutugamunu in south, prince dutugamunu killed elara and ruled entire country"... todays history lesson is over children...
Chaps, please switch over to the new post.
Cheers!
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