Published articles by Ira de Silva and Asoka Weerasinghe both highlighted the opinions of Tamil pundits, were of interest to all Sinhala patriots and supporters of the Sinhala Nation.
First of all, all sensible readers should accept the fact that, “There Are No Tamil Areas” in the Island of Sri Lanka.
The settlers of Tamil Ghettos should be given an opportunity and a fresh start to integrate with the Sinhala.
The Sinhala citizens are free to move into any part of the Island of Sri Lanka to settle and raise their families.
I for one, would support and seek a Parliamentary support to finance less affluent Sinhala to settle in areas to make up the proportion of Sinhala to achieve a uniform demographic balance in the Island, and destroy the “taboo” or the “myth” of “Tamil Areas”.
The Tamil Areas, in fact, are in Tamil Nadu, India. And the rest of the areas occupied by the Tamils in Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, Scandinavia, France, Italy, Switzerland, UK, USA and indeed in Sri Lanka, are facilitated by kind courtesy of the respective democratic governments.
One hardly finds many immigrant Tamils in Russia, North Korea, China, or in any of the Arab World countries. One might ask, WHY?
No reader has complained about the Invasion of Tamils into Sri Lanka’s areas predominantly occupied by Sinhala for over two millenium.
The Sinhala having suffered a three decade terror campaign by Tamil Terrorist LTTE, was given a breath of fresh air, by the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Having saved the Tamil citizens in the process, many of them illegal immigrants from Tamil Nadu, President Rajapaksa went on to save, rehabilitate and rehouse them in the Land of Sinhala, at a cost which the Sinhala citizens have to subsidize.
The Tamil agitators as well as the Indian government should now leave the problems of rehabilitation and settlement to the Sri Lankan government which “carries the can” and the financial burden.
The Sri Lankan government has conducted itself in an admirable manner, led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa acting in the manner of a Global Statesman!
Instead of “barking at the Moon” or “crying over spilt milk” or feeling sorry for the leading Tamil Terrorism benefactor Raj Rajasingham getting eleven years eating “porrige” in an American jail, why not “bury the hatchet” and Start the Process of Nomination of President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize?
Prof. Hudson McLean