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Do you understand youre comments are totally irrelevant to what is being discussed?

No. If you check with issues minority faced in other countries these are not major issues. Compare US. In 60s a black person was not even allowed to travel in a bus with whites. Same case in Europe though not that severe. That is what real discrimination is. SL did take discriminative steps...

he is not a muslim. I can assure you that....His origins are from SL and tamil. Believe me...we know these people

How many times we have told Indians here that manlion is not a SL muslim. :( but they dont listen to us... he is a SL tamil orgin person born and bred in west

I have heard there was a buddhist temples in TN and even Jain...Is there a buddhist and Jain community in TN now?

Yes then government introduced an ethnic quota system which was bad and discriminative. There are only few people in SL that would defend that move. And know what? it was scrapped 5 years later and replaced with a regional base one. Now that is what is used in SL. The result is a student in...

In late 60s there was dravidian movement in India where demands were rising for a separate Tamil country for indian tamils. So that was a move probably to stop propaganda coming to SL. But as far as i know it was never implemented. Tamil language films and culture thrive in SL. There was no...

I think they should swap their countries :)

The dominant Tamils were the Tamil elites educated in english. The size of tamil elite population and sinhala elite population were roughly similar. So on a percentage basis there were more educated and elite tamil community as a percentage among tamils while it was not the case with sinhalese...

@Lux de Veritas @Azizam, @Gibbs, @HeinzG, @samv

The First Sinhala-Tamil Riot, 1939 Prior to about 1935, the politics of caste was more important than the politics of race, and there was little race animosity. Racial representation was begun by the British, who appointed reprentatives to the Legislative council, based on race. The Sinhalese...

tamils did not have a special prosperity during british period. This is a much publicised but wrong information that most believe in. Both the upper class sinhalese and tamils (english educated elite) were in a priviledged position. But the businesses were in sinhala hands. Sinhala -Tamil...

well British anyhow treated the native people badly but no institutional racism specially towards sinhalese. But British took steps to destroy the sinhala base or their demographic strength.

@Gibbs, @Azizam, @HeinzG I read the interview. I dont find it a good development. 1. They say they are promoting inclusive politics but they are doing the same thing SLMC doing. At least SLMC participated in every government. 2. Surely BBS has changed the political landscapes of them. As...

k then you dont have to be scared. Chinese wont get you...sleep without fear

Can you please explain on how you come to this conclusion. would like to have a discussion :)

OK i will tell our president that some kid in forum told me so.....now go and sleep

i have read many interviews of these pakistani christians. It is amazing after all these they are very patriotic pakistanis.

yeah we dont share a border with china...so you can get my point.....between China does not poke their nose in our internal matters. China is a country that has successfully defeated many separatist struggles and protected their unity. So I guess China can understand our concerns better than...

fair point. I am no fan of hypocritical west...you are right on that. The reason Rajapakse was ousted was mainly corruption and lack of rule of law. And most of the development failed to reach the public. I mean lack of job creation. Lets see how this government goes on. But i am sure SL-China...