French Referendum on Tamil Eelam

An overwhelming turn out was reported in the referendum on independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam held in France among Eelam Tamils on 12 December and 13 December, 2009. The polls were carried out and monitored by French local council officials. The formation committee for the country council of Eelam Tamils "The House of Tamil Eelam" has organised the polls.

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[janewarrant]

Listen we have no problem with Sinhalese living with us as long as they learn and use Tamil in Tamil areas. We simply want to be the majority. We don't want government giving land for free or very cheaply to Sinhalese or HSZ.

SF has the support of all communities right now. I don't like family rule. I suggest you support SF right now since he has support of all communities and can unite all people.

MR could have brought about the change necessary but didn't. He had support of TMVP SLMC before.

[janewarrant]

Well if we get real EQUAL rights then we will be happy. When we are our percentage of army, police as we are in the places we live. It will be equal. When we have control of the places we live we will be EQUAL. That is what we have always wanted. It is things we can work out with the constitution. If we are allowed to right the constitution and put in things so that it can not be changed without majority consent of each community we will be EQUAL.

[janewarrant]

We like things based on merit, not of race, or place of origin. GAP, Victoria Secrets will be changing their minds and we will see what to do from there. We have not really spent money on advertisement yet. Give it time.

[SinhaHelaya]

SF had a plan to colonize the NE with military families but the govt stopped it, remember? And non-Tamils can't buy land in Jaffna. It is the law there, which will soon be revoked. Compare that to Tamils being allowed to buy land anywhere in Sri Lanka. Where is the discrimination?

[SinhaHelaya]

I don't see SF giving you Eelam the way he promised. He is just saying it to get your gullible votes.

And of course you like Lanka 'in the beginning' when you were the white man's lapdogs. but the white man doesn't rule us any more, no matter how much you beg them to intervene in our country. Like I saidm you will get EQUAL rights, not the SPECIAL rights you had under your white masters. They're only using Tamils to stop Sri Lanka from developing. You guys are only too happy to oblige them.

[SinhaHelaya]

LOL! sorry, but you speak as if you've already got Eelam. Get out of your dreamland and accept the status quo: if you want a separate state, we have only one answer.

University exams affected even Sinhalese. It was done to encourage more people of all races from the VILLAGES get into uni, not to stop Tamils.

Your boycott campaign doesn't seem to be working. You must have seen the NYT giving us the no. 1 rank in their tourist spots. Now google 'DailyCandy Sri Lanka' for another good one :)

[janewarrant]

The colonization thing we keep talking about are development schemes in East where land was given to Sinhalese only and not to Tamils or Muslims. Anyone can buy land in North and East but at market prices. We don't like when government gives preference to one community.

Presidents in the past have said racist things about Tamils such as starving them out and etc...

I hope the next president will be fair to all communities and maybe Eelam will not be needed. Right now it seems needed.

[janewarrant]

What happened in the past is that Sinhalese used majority status to take away the good jobs we had through Sinhala language of government, system of standardization of marks which meant we had to score much higher for university entrance. Tamils still overachieved so they implemented quotas by provinces/districts. This pissed us off the most. We liked a unitary Lanka where we had 50-75% of all the best jobs and university placements by merit nothing else.

[janewarrant]

We can't keep fight forever. I am sure something could be worked out. If many things are changed there can be a unitary state where Tamils have a greater say than their numbers would dictate. Where Tamil speaking peoples control the North and East. Where Tamils are equal or superior in economic condition and education. We liked Lanka in the beginning when we had all the good jobs.

We did not like the communal violence where we were often killed in Colombo and elsewhere.

[janewarrant]

You can't have a country with people you don't trust. Prabha was never the sole representative of the Tamil people although he like to think he was. He simply killed all other voices.

We will ask the world to boycott Lanka until we are happy with a solution. MR and Fonseka have both said there will be a political solution.

I was originally hoping for huge MR win in both president and parliament for constitutional change.

Fonseka seems to be the man who will bring the change needed.