From: Shiva Rasanayagam
Subject: Dear Sinhalese. - A must read letter!
To: Undisclosed-Recipient@yahoo.com
Received: Thursday, 30 April, 2009, 4:35 PM
Dear Sinhalese,
I understand that you are upset by us. Indeed, it appears that you are
quite upset, even angry.
Today, it is the "barbarism of LTTE terrorism", yesterday it was the> Federal party, before that it was the "favouritism of the British". It
appears that Tamils, who could achieve equality and who, therefore, could
live, upset you.
Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. You were upset in
1956, in 1958, in 1961 and in 1977 and went on acts of arson, rape, pillage,
murder and plain barbarity and we were scornfully asked to go to the Federal
party for help.
Of course, dear Sinhalese, long before there was a Tamil tiger, we the
Tamil people - upset you. And we go back a long way in the history of
Sinhala upset. We upset the "Great" Sinhala King Dutugemunu and you still
use his "history" to teach your young ones to be more upset by us.
Reds are upset and monks are upset. The radical Sinhalese are upset and the
gentle "Sinhalese moderates" are upset. We upset the Sinhala Hamudawa who
massacred tens of thousands of us; we upset the Sinhala police who,
collaborated with rioters and killed, burnt and slaughtered untold numbers
of us.
And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear Sinhalese
that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a
Tamil state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as
resident-strangers, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What better
notion, then, than to leave you (and thus love you) - and have you love us
and so, we decided to come home - home to the same land we were driven to in
1983
Having left you and your pogroms and riots, having taken our leave from you
to live alone in our own little state of Tamil Eelam, we continue to upset
you.
Well, dear Sinhalese, consider the reaction of a normal Tamil from Tamil
Eelam:
In 1956 and 1958 and 1961 and 1977, there was no "Tamil terrorism" to
impede peace between Tamils and Sinhalese. Indeed, there was no Kotias
(Tigers) to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same Sinhalese slaughtered
thousands of Tamils in Hingurakgoda, Polonnaruwa, Minneriya and Colombo.
Indeed, in 1958 so many Tamil men, women and children were mercilessly
hunted down in Polonaruwa Sugar plantation.
Dear Sinhalese, why did you massacre hundreds of Tamils in one day in 1958?
Why did you carry out the1977 pogrom and made 75,000 refugees. Could it have
been your anger over Tiger terrorism in 2007? And why were thousands of
Tamil men, women and children slaughtered in pogroms between 1956-83? Was it
because Sinhalese were upset over Tiger terrorism in 1996?
The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "para demala"
(foreign Tamils!) that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The
same people, the same dream - Sinhala Buddhism only. What you failed to do
yesterday, you dream of today.
Dear Sinhalese, you stood by and cheered on when the Sinhala police burnt
down our beloved Jaffna library.
You stood by when Sinhala police massacred attendees at an International
Tamil Cultural event in Jaffna.
You contributed and stood by in 1983 genocide, wildly cheered by wild mobs
in every Sinhala town and city in your land.
You drove millions of Tamils to the North-East, thus suggesting Tamil Eelam
is our only Homeland. When we come here to establish Tamil Eelam, alas that
upsets you again.
It appears that you are hard to please.
And since we know that the Sinhalese dream daily of our extinction, we will
do everything possible to remain alive in our own homeland. If that bothers
you, dear Sinhalese, well? - think of how many times in the past you
bothered us.
In any event, dear Sinhalese, if you are bothered by us, here is one Tamil
who could not care less and, frankly doesn't give a damn about you F…… Sinhalese.
Shiva.
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