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From: kumar@ditsydh.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: Happy Tamil New Year
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 23:47:28 GMT

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HAPPY TAMIL NEW YEAR !!

Tamilzhukku amuthaendru paeyar, ath tamilzh
inbath tamilzh engal uyirukku naer !

Vaazhga Tamil, Vaazhga vaiyagam, Vaazhga valamudan

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Anbudan,

V.R.Kumar
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.sri-lanka:483 soc.culture.indian:14147
From: obey@ds13.scri.fsu.edu (Dr. Obeysekera)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Who Created Tigers
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:31:51 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Distribution: na
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University

With regard to the question of Who Created Tigers one should
look at all aspects of alleged discrimination, not some
extremist statements made by some politicians.

As the statistics on education and employment indicate
the situation certainly did not justify taking up arms
for a violent campaign by the Tigers without 
pursuing a peaceful settlement.   

Education

Schools with university entrance clsses:
1959 University Commission reported:
District            Population           No. of Schools
-------------------------------------------------------
Colombo             17,09,000                32
Jaffna               4,92,000                33
Ratnapura            4,22,000                 3
Kurunegala           6,26,000                 5
Kandy                8,40,000                12

1975 Numbers
District            No. of students      No. of Schools
-------------------------------------------------------
Colombo-North           3094                 20
Colombo-South           4360                 22
Jaffna                  2434                 32
Ratnapura               1251                  5
Kurunegala              3974                 13
Kandy                   3521                 17

University Entrance
Year                Sinhala               Tamil   % of Tamil
1954                 142                   145       50
1965-1970
  Medicine           410                   464       53
  Engineering        336                   346       51
1971-1976
  Medicine           785                   393       33
  Engineering        921                   311       25
In 1959 the University Commission reported that for every 320
tamils in the country 1 person received university education.
The ratio for sinhalese was 3212 to 1.

Jobs
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Tamil representation for selected professional fields
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                                  1948      1955     1963
                                  -----------------------
1. Irrigation Department          40.0      46.1     48.1
2. Department of Health(Doctors)  32.4      35.3     40.6
3. Goverment Accountants          46.2      59.9     56.2

1978 Numbers
------------                    Percentage
                       Sinhala      Tamil      Other
Doctors                  49.2        39.0       11.8
Engineers                58.3        38.6        3.1
Lawyers                  59.9        23.9       16.2
Certified Accountants    41.3        48.8       19.9
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Sources:  Report to Sansoni Commission, Ven. Madihe Pannasiha, 1979
          Article written by V. Nithiyanandan in Facets of Ethnicity in
                  Sri Lanka, C.Abeysekera, N. Gunasinghe authors
From: rxh9306@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Part 6 : Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?
Date: 11 Apr 92 08:14:33 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Who Created the Tigers (LTTE) ?                        (Part 6)


Ekasath Bhikkhu Peramuna and others like him did !


Here is how:

On 5 June 1956, the date the "Sinhala only" bill was introduced by
Bandaranaike in the House, as an act of protest Chelvanayakam (a
Tamil leader of the FP party) led a party of 300 Tamil volunteers
and staged a sit-down "Satyagraha" (peaceful protest), of the kind
popularized by the Mahatma Gandhi in the days of the indian freedom
struggle......

On the same day, the Ekasth Bhikkhu Peramuna (a Buddhist Priest)
had organized a march to the House to get the "reasonable use of
Tamil" clause in the bill removed.  The Bhikkhu Peramuna procession
converged on the House, followed by thousands of supporters of
"Sinhala only", and when they found the Tamils staging the
Satyagraha they set upon and beat them.

On that day, the police were all around but allowed the (Tamil)
Satyagrahis to be beaten up (by the Sinhala mob).  The Tamil
protesters never imagined the bhikkhu holy men would be a party to
violence.......  From that moment, every Tamil seen on the roads of
Colombo was attacked.....  Sinhalese hooligans took charge of the
situation and went on a rampage of arson and looting of Tamil shops
and homes.......  The violence and rioting spread to Gal Oya and
Ampari, where, under an irrigation and resettlement scheme,
thousands of Sinhalese had been resettled in clusters around thinly
distributed Tamil villages in the eastern province.  In the race
riot in 1956 150 people died.  This included many Tamil women and
children.


(Sri Lanka, The National Question and the Tamil Liberation Struggle
by Sachi Ponnambalam )
From: rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Time for thought..
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:24:24 GMT
Organization: Junior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I have a question for all Sri Lankans(must be born there) who use this
net. Some of you might have read old and recent writings. Take
some time by yourself before anwering. If you can, then you know the 
solution for the current tragedy. It's not an easy question. And
certainly, it's not meant to be.
Q: How can a young Tamil sympathize with LTTE while at the same time
wish for the unity of land and its people?

 I would like to add, at this stage of
'siutuation,' not too many Tamils have a notion of 'unity.' Only a
minority. few.

Please post the answers on the net.

Thanks.
Suresh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
Subject: Mr. E.C. Gunasekara's condition
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:58:21 GMT

Dear Friends,

	News has just reached us that E.C. Gunasekara is in critical
condition suffering from Leukemia.  As old royalist we are very sad to
hear of his situation.  He dedicated his life to the discipline and
moral upkeep of royal during his tenure there as vice principle.  At 
at this critical juncture of his life we (as old royalist, and others 
concerned) should do all we can to help him.  If you have any ideas/
suggestions please send them to either (muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu)
or to prasathn@athena.mit.edu.  We were thinking of starting a fund or 
something like that in case (bone marrow transplant) surgery can save his 
life and there are enough people willing to lend a hand.  But we don't have 
enough information at this point to know his exact condition.  News is that 
he's financially stricken and depressed.  If you can do anything at all (in 
terms of finding out what his options are) please do so ASAP.

E.C. Gunasekara's brother (in Medford, Mass.) can be reached at:
	Tel: 617 - 275-3434

Thank You.
Ranjan and Prasanth.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: ketha@ee.mcgill.ca (KETHEESWARAN/NANNITHAMBY/MR)
Subject: Don't limit to America
Originator: ketha@beetle.EE.McGill.CA
Organization: Undergraduate UNIX Lab, EE, McGill University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 06:23:29 GMT


  I guess  some netters limit their posting to America only.
  I sometimes don't recieve the original posting but the reply.
  Please share your views with the rest of the world.
  If not, at least to North America as a whole.
From: obey@ds13.scri.fsu.edu (Dr. Obeysekera)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Sinhala chauvinism vs. Tamil nationalism
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:29:15 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Distribution: na
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University

Question to the interested reader:

"What are the attributes of Sinhala chauvinism that
differentiates it from Tamil nationalism?"

-- Ben Fonseka (Sri Lanka News, March 11, 1992)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: sakw@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Sujeeva Weerasuriya, Damon 317)
Subject: Tax tax 
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:54:22 GMT

From article <1992Apr5.051124.1723@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, by umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor):

Tax Treaty Between SL & US

I have received information from "IRS" regarding the above subject.
According to them, there was no such treaty untill 4 March 92. So we
have to file taxes as before.

Sujeeva

Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: mvishnu@morse.waterloo.edu (m vishnu)
Subject: Re: More on Tiger Trash
Originator: mvishnu@morse.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:25:04 GMT


> Have these people [SL Tamils] forgotten how the riots of 83 started
> in the first place?
> To refresh your memories :
> 
> It was the raping of 6 Sinhalese women in the Jaffna area and cutting up
> their bodies into pieces and throwing them around in the heart of Colombo.

> 
>                                                       --  Charles

Man, you are totally clueless.
This is the biggest joke I have heard in a while.

For your information:
The July 1983 anti-Tamil riots were sparked off when 13 members of the
Special Task Force (STF) were blown by an LTTE landmine in Jaffna.


Meenan Vishnu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: ravindra@leland.Stanford.EDU ( Ravindran)
Subject: Re: LTTE and Tamils
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 00:20:13 GMT

In article <Adt_3GO00awR46e0h4@andrew.cmu.edu> rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh) writes:
>You have basically summed the reasons to end the war. It's true that
>LTTE has done quite a few bad things. At times, the situation becomes
>just gray. Only the different uniforms can  differentiate LTTE from SL
>army as far as some unwanted killing go. It is of my opinion  that the
>question of prestige and unwillingness to compromise on any
>issue(beacuse of deep mistrust) are what's prolonging this war. As I've
>said before, most Tamils will also agree that the bigger of the two
>evils for them is the SL
>armed forces. 

What a choice, don't the Tamil people deserve better? Why do they
have to choose between "two evils"?

May be one day, the Tamils will be able to decide for themselves,
with neither the SL gov't or the LTTE holding guns. 

Would be nice, wouldn't it!!! Imagine Jaffna without the LTTE and the
rest of the groups, no SL army, just people getting on with their
lives, and the rest of the country also quiet, singhalease and tamils, moors,
etc all living togather, enjoying the fruits of their labour.........UTOPIA
...A dream....may it become reality.



-Niranjan-

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Niranjan Ravindran                               ravindra@pangea.Stanford.Edu

"Idleness is the holiday of fools"
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: On silence &..
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:07:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.wdsvHo_00UhWI_3186
Organization: Junior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


A note to all sane readers:

It's about recent postings about TN, LTTE & Tamils on
netnews.soc.culture.indian. My harsh joke on Tamil Nadu chief didn't
bother many. But, my next posting was provocative and a bit offensive.
MAybe I wanted it that way so as to 'test the waters.' Well, that
approach has proved to be counterproductive. But, the the  postings are
offensive only in the eyes of the 
ignorant. I didn't have provocative material.
What I don't understand is why no one came forward to back any of the
content in the writings. I was left high and dry. A quite a few Indians
wrote strong defamotory material on SL Tamils, LTTE & me. Many name
callings came to my mail box.Why is a silence being kept? Truth cannot
be buried under a pile of mud. You must stand for it regardless of its
content. Many of you propably know more of firsthand IPKF atrocities
than I do. And some of you are experts in the whole Indira Gandhi & RAW
to Rajiv's 'peace' mission deal. Did't have time to say anything now?
Or is that you are afraid of being labeled a 'terrorist,' if your
thoughts sound
a bit pro-Tamil or LTTE? At the end, I'm sure some Sri Lankans had a
field day by reading those posts.

Good day.
From: obey@ds13.scri.fsu.edu (Dr. Obeysekera)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: LTTE and Tamils
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:13:10 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Distribution: na
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University

In article <8ds0_F600VorEKelMy@andrew.cmu.edu>  Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh <rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>At best, more than any other group the Tigers looks after the 'genuine'
>interests and wishes of most Tamils
>living in the Northeast corridor. Not the Tamils from Colombo.  The other

Obviously, there is no consensus on the role of Tigers in looking after
the 'genuine' interest of the Tamils.  Here are some excerpts from an
appeal made by a group of Tamil academics serving universities 
in the USA (source: Sri Lanka News, Wed. Mar 11, 1992 issue)

US TAMIL ACADEMICS APPEAL FOR PEACE

"The armed response of the LTTE, however, has included massacres
of innocent Sinhala villagers, and the torture and killing of
prisoners.  Recently, tens of thousands of Muslims were forcibly
evicted from their homes and expelled from the North, while several
hundred were killed in the East.  The LTTE has also been responsible
for the imprisonment and death of student leaders, women's rights
activists and human rights activists."

"We feel the nature of LTTE response to Sinhala chauvinism raises 
important questions about Tamil nationalism that have not been sufficiently
addressed.  How has the development of Tamil nationalism alienated
Muslims of the North and East?  Why has the claim to a traditional
homeland led to the expulsion of Sinhalese and Muslims, who have been
living in the North and East for generations?  Do the demands of the
Tamil nationalist movement reflect the aspirations of the Tamil people
of the East, or do they only express the will of its Jaffna leadership?
And why have the interest of women and "depressed" castes not been
represented by the Tamil nationalist movement?

"Today, the North and East have become a wasteland devastated by the
armed forces of the Shri Lankan state and silenced by the LTTE's
suppression of all alternative political voices."

I must point out that the appeal called on both the government and the LTTE to 
initiate a peaceful resolution of the ethnic conflict.  I hope there 
are others who will recognize that there can be solutions other than
the extremes proposed by LTTE. 

You can never restore a culture, a religion and the way of life 
which took serveral hundered years to build but unfortunately destroyed 
in a decade or two.

Obeysekera
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: mvishnu@morse.waterloo.edu (m vishnu)
Subject: Re: Soc.culture.Tamil
Originator: mvishnu@morse.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:38:42 GMT




I think it is a great idea to start soc.culture.tamil.  It is long
overdue.  I am a Tamil from Northen Sri-lanka and I hate to go thru
the entire SCI for articles of relevence to the Tamils.  SCI generates
more than 70 articles per day !!!.  

Neither Indians nor Sri-lankans have to fear that creation of sct is a
precursor to the separitism.  Dividing a newsgroups for convenience 
has nothing to do with separatism.

Using SCI is like using a single notebook for all the courses, quite an
unmanageable affair.

Meenan Vishnu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: nasokan@maytag.waterloo.edu (Asokan)
Subject: Re: On silence &..
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:06:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.135143.10711@acsu.buffalo.edu> bandu@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jagath Samarabandu) writes:
[...]
>I for one have learned to ignore those that say the LTTE is the only solution
>and those that say SL army is the only solution. Do you really think LTTE is
>all that different from SL government? 
[...]

In most respects, no.  They are both too solidly entrenched.
They both have too many people depending on them due to a lack
of choice.  That is why they both should be part of any solution,
regardless of any moral or ethical (not to mention emotional)
arguments to the contrary.  India failed to appreciate this in
its Sri Lankan misadventure and that is why the accord was a
miserable failure.  My feeling is that the Tamils and LTTE too
seem to have come around to realizing this;  but the SL govt.
hasn't.  I don't have a good feeling about the general opinion
in the South.

Which brings me to my question:  it seems to me that the
South seems to have recovered from the dark years of the late
Eighties with a remarkable resiliency.  How correct a
judgement is that?

Being able to recover from such a traumatic period is obviously
a good thing.  But the recovery also probably implies forgetting
the trauma.  I would have hoped that the people of the South,
after having gone through the late Eighties, would be more
sensitive about the plight of a people caught between brutal
and ruthless warring factions.  Prior to JVP's "second coming",
a sizable number of good, honest and otherwise reasonable
citizens were insensitive to the plight of the Tamils.
(By "plight" I don't mean the the discrimination against the
Tamils in education, employment etc.  I mean the prospect
of having to go through life fearing for one's properties,
body and life).

Another implication of recovery is that those responsible
for the trauma (at least a subset of them) would be
forgotten and therefore forgiven.

- Asokan
Xref: sparky soc.culture.sri-lanka:432 soc.culture.taiwan:7195 soc.culture.thai:994
From: ab0kfc@gdt.bath.ac.uk (K F Chow)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.thai
Subject: BMS survey
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:52:21 GMT
Organization: School of Architecture, University of Bath, UK

If you are an undergradate of engineering you may like to
do a questionnaire through email, on the subject "Building
Management Systems". This questionnaire is being done by 
your counterparts at USA, CAN, & UK. Comparison will be 
made between you and them.

If you know nothing about BMS but you know some others may 
do, please pass on the message.

Come and Join the party !!

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K.F CHOW                      email : ab0kfc@uk.ac.bath.sl1
School of Architecture &              ab0kfc@uk.ac.bath.gdt
Building Engineering,
Bath University, UK
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: aruna@cs.UAlberta.CA (Kalutanthri Aruna J)
Subject: test
Keywords: test
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:59:10 GMT

this is a test.