Sri Lanka Genocide And Tamil Canadian

Ronald Buerk, BBC's former Colombo correspondent making an independent appearance in a radio debate between the Sri Lankan and pro-Tamil Tiger parties in London and answering a question whether there is any truth in the charge by pro-LTTE section about a "genocide" in Sri Lanka said it is exceedingly an "expression going too far."

Buerk said undoubtedly some civilians are getting killed in the war but the allegation about genocide is not true. But Buerk protested the inability of journalists not being able to see for them what was happening inside the warzone.

The debate between the two Sri Lankan groups was moderated by the popular broadcaster Nihal for the BBC's Asian network.

One side was represented by the President of the Sinhala Association of London Mr. Douglas Wickramaratne and the PRO-LTTE side was represented by Mr. Ramanan Sri Pathmanadan.

But during the debate Mr.Sri Pathmanadan had to accept that the child soldiers conscripted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the suicide bombing practiced by them are two indefensible acts, although officially the LTTE has never said so before.

Douglas Wickramaratne replying to charges of discrimination said what Eaton and Oxford educated Bandaranaike did was only replacing English , spoken only by six percent of the people , the elite of the Sinhalese and the Tamils , with Sinhalese as the state language which was understood and spoken by eighty percent of the population. He also introduced reasonable use of Tamil immediately after the Sinhala act. This upset, mostly the Tamil elite who had become an over privileged sector of the society due to the divide and rule policies of the British imperial government, Wickramaratne charged.

Anyway, today both Sinhlese and Tamil languages have become state languages of the country, said Wickramaratne , who also added that Sri Lanka is the only country in the world which has given such a place to the Tamil language. Sri Lanka educates all Tamil children, free of charge , in their mother tongue from the kindergarten to the university, once again being the only country in the world of doing so, he emphasized.

Mr.Ramanan Sri Padmanadan opening the debate for the LTTE said, Sri Lanka was three countries when the Portuguese invaded the Indian ocean island and it was they who put the Tamil homeland, an independent state aligned with Sinhala maritime areas. The British united the countries and gave independence in 1948 and hence all these troubles.

He first of all advocated separation as a solution and when questioned about the wisdom of it changed it to devolution. But the LTTE has not accepted any devolution offficially but separation. Mr.Pathmanadan denied any over- privileges for the Tamils under the British imperial government but said since there were more English schools in Jaffna the Tamils were able to educate themselves better and get more jobs.

Mr. Douglas Wickramaratne argued that that because of this position a kind of apartheid was practiced against the Sinhalese by the British then. He said disproportionately large numbers of higher positions were enjoyed by them. When such imbalances are balanced by the circumstances violent reactions occur now.

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[vic86m]

India should STEP in Tamiland, and annex it make it a part of Tamil Nadu.

[laktony2]

@vic86m what the fuck you talking about ... wher those all sinhalese go ...tamils are only 14% of the population

you think india step in and do this that easy ? fuck off man sri lanka is not a state of india you are just a internet cunt ...

cashmir ,assam , corruption surrounded enemies except SL india have shit all over the place u fucking gay hind cow piss drinker mind your own thing ya i think you r tamil so what i do u shit black ugly bastard we killed tamils so what nothing happend

[AjandhaDeSilva]

You r telling that U never killed Tamil civilians in Colombo???

What happened in 1983 riots in Colombo? Didn't Sinhalese killed 3000+ Tamil civilians???

[kaputa77]

kizzz ma azzzzzz !!!

[relistic99]

get out of Canada stinky tamils!!!

[laktony2]

@TheZee28 ha ha look like you are indian then brit ...who cares ? .....tamils kill 1000s of sinhalese ...sinhalese killes 1000s of tamils ..it's just getting renewed by time to time ..US & UK is one side and Russia & China on others so UN can't do a shit ..i don't know but from the day i born i saw many sinhalese died from tamil hands and anger pump into our hearts same with the tamils ..everything is bullshit nothing gonna happen "like israel" ... & u know i bought quran on ebay n pissed on it

[V95UNDERTAKER]

FUK THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS VIDEO....LTTE DID NOT COMMIT WAR CRIMES..SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT DID!

[MegaContented]

all who lick candian boots is a wise person. Canda should bring all the thugs to their bloody country they robbed from native peoples.

[MegaContented]

Candian tamils obtained absolutely free education in Srilanka and now talk garbage. They drank the water from the river and crap into that river and hail mighty oceans. British and Candians will use the tamils clean their toilets but never ever regard them as equals. Tamils have no self respect. They lick every foriegners boots.

[MegaContented]

genocide of native peoples happened in Canda , USA , Most parts of south America, South Africa and Australia all that happened with the support of the HMG- His/Her majesti's govts. UK . Today Iriya Jaya native people are totaly anihiliated by Indonesia with UK and other European support..

Such never happened in Srilanka.

[mobilejiboou]

Fuck Canada