Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Who Created Tigers
From: jey@micronics.com (Jey Kumarasurier)
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:22:03 GMT
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In article <8185@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> obey@ds13.scri.fsu.edu (Dr. Obeysekera) writes:
>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.   

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So, you never heard that Tamil leaders tried and fought 
in peaceful way for their rights!  Where have you been?


>
>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.

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So, it is the fault of Tamils for their hard working.


>
>Jobs
>----
>
>Tamil representation for selected professional fields
>-----------------------------------------------------
>                                  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
>----------------------------------------------------------
>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

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What is the point you are trying to make if there is one at all.  
The way you think is typical to sihalese leaders and the monks,
Are you trying to justify the discrimination against Tamils
by showing these numbers? Wake up!

When a certain population is oppressed just because they have a 
certain language, they don't have to put up with oppressors
for no reasons, they bring the issues to the oppressors
if the oppressors are not capable of understanding the words
what other choice ther are left with ??