February 4th is once again a stark reminder to the Thamil people that they lost their freedom on this black day 62 years ago. It is the day Sinhala hegemony was imposed on the unsuspecting Thamils by the ungrateful Sinhalese leaders.
The hopes of the Thamil people that they will be treated on equal terms with in a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, multi-religious and multi-cultural society in which they will find the political space to live in freedom and dignity has been rudely shattered. Over the years, Thamils have been brutally excluded from the corridors of power and robbed of their language, cultural and employment rights.
Through systematic state sponsored Sinhalese colonization of traditional Thamil homelands, the demographic composition of the Northeast continue to be drastically altered in favour of the majority community.
After the end of Eelam War 1V Mahinda Rajapakse government is not only hell bent to militarise and Sinhalize the North and East, it has embarked on an unholy mission to Buddhistise the North. A dozen viharas have sprung up along A9 within the last 8 months, not to speak of the war memorials which is an insult to the Thamil people.
Over 100,000 Thamil IDPs are still languishing in squalid camps without adequate food, medicine, shelter, schools and other basic amenities. Even those IDPs released from the camps have been left to fend for themselves with five tin sheets and Rs.25,000 per family.
This makes a mockery of the boast by Mahinda Rajapakse that he "liberated" the Thamil people from the "clutches" of the LTTE by launching "humanitarian operations" and that he has ushered in Spring to the North!
Though guns have fallen silent, Thamils continue to be ruled under the jackboot of 40,000 strong occupation army. Fishing restrictions lifted during the just concluded presidential elections have been re-imposed as a punitive measure for rejecting Mahinda Rajapakse decisively. The humiliating restrictions on hours and time of fishing is an insult to our people's dignity and self-respect. Fishing and farming the mainstay of the Thamil people continue to be crippled by the imposition of humiliating restrictions by the occupation army. Jaffna peninsula has been turned into an open prison for 600,000 people.
The promise of resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced people and reconstruction of damaged homes, schools, places of worship continue to be a big mirage even after the lapse of eight long months! Several schools, hospitals and places of worship still remain within the HSZ without access to people.
Hundreds of Thamils arrested under the PTA are still locked up in prisons in the south. GOSL continue to use emergency laws and PTA to incarcerate Thamils on flimsy grounds.
The description of the Rajapaksa administration as intimidating, intolerant, and ruthlessly repressing is powerfully accurate. "Widespread police torture, abductions of journalists, politicised courts and uninvestigated disappearances have all played a part in creating a state of "complete or virtually complete impunity in Sri Lanka". - The Economist, 3 Sept 09
Just three months after the Sri Lankan government declared the country liberated from the LTTE, video footage emerged showing government troops summarily executing Tamils". (Channel 4, 25 Aug 09)
The UN report into the video, commissioned from three independent experts, a forensic pathologist, an expert in forensic video analysis, and an independent expert in firearms have scientifically established after exhaustive tests that the video is beyond any doubt authentic .
Mahinda Rajapakse's government still uses state terror as an instrument to subjugate the Thamils. The army’s mentality that it is above the law continue to dominate their psyche.
Though Mahinda Rajapakse has won the presidential elections in the south, he has decisively lost the trust of the Thamil and Muslims in the Northeast. . This has dented the sense of triumphalism in the south.
We, therefore, call upon the Thamil people to observe February 04 as a Black Day. This is the only way to register our protest against the continued denial of Thamil people's fundamental rights.
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February 4th is once
again a stark reminder to the Thamils that they lost their freedom on this
black day 56 years ago. It is the day hegemonic rule was imposed on the
unsuspecting Thamils by the ungrateful Sinhalese leaders.
The hopes of the Thamil people that they will be treated on equal terms with in a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, multi-religious and multi-cultural society in which they will find the political space to live in freedom and dignity has been rudely shattered. Over the years, Thamils have been brutally excluded from the corridors of power and robbed of their language, cultural and employment rights.
Through systematic state sponsored Sinhalese colonization of traditional
Thamil homelands, the demographic composition of the Northeast has
been drastically altered in favour of the majority community.
The two year- old MoU signed between the LTTE and the GOSL has not restored the much-touted normalcy to the people of Northeast. Except the fact the guns have fallen silent, Thamils continue to live under the jackboot of an occupation army. The armed forces have refused to vacate HSZs in terms of the MoU and as a result thousands of Thamil families continue to languish in refugee camps and welfare centres.
Resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced people and reconstruction of damaged homes, schools, places of worship had turned out to be a cruel joke.
Farming and fishing, the mainstay of the Thamil people, continue to be crippled by the imposition of humiliating restrictions by the occupation army. Their freedom of movement both on land and sea has been severely restricted.
The fishing community is still subject to restrictions imposed by the army in regard to hours of fishing and area of fishing. The humiliation of obtaining daily passes from the army to put out to sea is an insult to their dignity and self-respect. Likewise Thamil farmers have been prevented from cultivating their traditional farmlands falling within the HSZs.
Hundreds of Thamils arrested under the PTA are still locked up in prisons in the south. GOSL used or misused the PTA to incarcerate Thamils on flimsy grounds.
Several schools, hospitals and places of worship still remain within the HSZ without access to people. The MoU has only helped to convert the Northeast into an open prison for our people.
While talking about peace and seeking a negotiated political settlement to the ethnic conflict, the government is also busy recruiting men and procuring arms to strengthen the armed forces. The government is also signing defence agreements with countries like India, USA and Russia, which will upset the military equilibrium and undermine the MoU. Apparently these defence agreements form part of the so-called “safety-net” strategy pursued by the Prime Minister to crush the LTTE militarily in case war resumes.
Despite the MoU, the government is still using state terror as an instrument to cow down the Thamils. Assaults, torture, detention and harassment of Thamils by members of the armed forces continue albeit on a reduced scale. The army’s mentality that it is above the law continue to dominate their psyche
To compound the already muddied waters, the power struggle between the legislative Prime Minister and the executive President has tied up the government in knots and paralyzed the functioning of the state. The President who is the head of state is also at the same time the leader of the opposition, a hypocritical mockery of democracy. Massive foreign aid by international community has been put on hold till peace prevails between the two.
President Chandrika has now embraced bogus revolutionaries and pseudo-Marxists like the JVP and MEP who fan the flames of divisive politics. By embracing warmongers, she has wittingly damaged her already dented image and irrevocably lost the trust of the Thamil people. Apparently her propensity for self-delusion is indeed very remarkable and appears to have no limits. Lest someone forget, we like to remind that her previous subterfuge of “Peace through War” wrought death, destruction and rivers of blood for the Thamil people.
We, therefore, join the civic
organizations in the Northeast in calling upon the Thamil people to observe
February 04 as a Black Day. This is the only way we can register our protest
against the continued denial of Thamil people's basic rights.
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,yq;ifj; jPtpd; tuyhw;wpy; mJ vd;WNk xU ehlhf> xNu murhf ,Ue;jpy;iy.
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,yq;ifapy; ,Ue;j %d;W gFjpfisAk; jdpj;jdpahf Mz;L te;j Mq;fpNyaH 1833 ,y; epUthf trjpf;fhf %d;W gFjpfisAk; (mjhtJ aho;g;ghzk;> fz;b> kw;Wk; Nfhl;il) Mfpatw;iw) xNu epUthfj;jpd; fPo; nfhz;L te;jdH.
1948 ,y; ,yq;iff;F Mq;fpNyaH Rje;jpuk; toq;fpa NghJ nraw;ifahf ma;f;fpag;gLj;jpa ,yq;ifj; jPitg; ngUk;ghd;ik rpq;fstHfs; ifapy; nfhLj;Jtpl;L ntspNawpdhHfs;.
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,yq;if Rje;jpuk; ngw;w mNj Mz;by; FbAupikr; rl;lj;ij b.v];. Nrdehaf;fh epiwNtw;wpdhH. mjw;F ,uz;L fhuzq;fs; ,Ue;jd.
1947 ,y; ele;j NjHjypy; kiyaf kf;fs; 7 njhFjpfspy; ntd;wpUe;jhHfs;. ,jid rpq;fs ,dthjpahd b.v];. Nrdehaf;fhthy; nrupf;f Kbatpy;iy. ,uz;lhtjhf kiyaf kf;fspd; thf;Fg; gyj;jhy; NkYk; 20 njhFjpfspy; ,lJrhupf; fl;rpfs; ntw;wpngw;wpUe;jij Nrdehaf;fh jdJ murpay; ,Ug;Gf;F mtHfs; mr;RWj;jyhf ,Uf;fpwhHfs; vd epidj;jhH.
1952 ,y; ele;j NjHjypy; thf;Fupik gpLq;fg;gl;l kiyaf kf;fshy; xUtiuf; $l ehlhSkd;wj;Jf;F mDg;g KbahJ Ngha;tpl;lJ. mWgJfspy; rpwpkh – rhj;jpup cld;ghl;bd; fPo; 525>000 kiyaf kf;fs; ,e;jpahTf;F ehL flj;jg; gl;lhHfs;. ,jdhy; rpq;fstHfsJ vz;zpf;if mjpfupf;fTk; jkpoH vz;zpf;if FiwaTk; VJthapw;W.
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Mz;L |
1947 |
1952 |
1956 |
1960 |
1965 |
1970 |
1977 |
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Nkhj;j ,Uf;iffs; |
95 + 6; |
95 + 6;; |
95 + 6;; |
151; |
151 |
151 |
168; |
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Rpq;fstH |
68 |
75 |
76 |
122 |
123 |
124 |
136 |
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jkpoH |
20 |
12 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
19 |
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K];ypk;fs; |
7 |
8 |
7 |
11 |
10 |
9 |
12 |
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K];ypk;fs; nkhj;jk; |
27 |
20 |
19 |
29 |
28 |
27 |
32 |
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Rpq;fstH |
,.jkpoH |
,e;jpaj; jkpoH |
K];ypk;fs; |
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Nrhy;gup jpl;ljpd;gb |
58 |
15 |
14 |
8 |
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njhFjp epUza Mizf;FO vjpH$wy; |
66 |
12 |
10 |
7 |
,yq;if Rje;jpuk; ngW Kd;dNu rl;l mitapy; fhzp> Ntshz;ik mikr;ruhf ,Ue;j b.v];. Nrdehaf;fh fpof;fpy; fhzp Nkk;ghL vd;w NghHitapy; ghupa rpq;fsf; FbNaw;wj; jpl;lq;fisj; njhlf;fp mtw;wpy; njd;dpyq;ifapy; tho;e;j rpq;fsf; FLk;gq;fis Mapuf;fzf;fpy; FbNaw;wpdhH.
1948 ,y; b.v];.Nrdehaf;fh jdJ kfd; ll;yp Nrdehaf;fhit fhzp> mikr;ruhf epakpj;J me;j rpq;fsf; FbNaw;wq;fs; njhlHe;J eilngw topNfhypdhH.
fpof;fpy; 1949 ,y; fy;Nyhah (gl;bg;gis) gs;sj;jhf;F jpl;lj;jpd; fPo; 120>000 Vf;fH epyk; fy;Nyhah Nkk;ghl;L mitapd; fPo; nfhz;Ltug;gl;L 40 nfhydpfspy; 20>000 rpq;fstHfs; Kjw;fl;lkhff; FbNaw;wg;gl;ld. ,e;jf; FbNaw;wj;jpd; tpisthf 1963 Mk; Mz;L mk;ghiu khtl;lk; vd;w Gjpa khtl;lk; kl;lf;fsg;G khtl;lj;jpy; ,Ue;J gpupj;J vLf;fg;gl;lJ. 1960 ,y; mk;ghiu (bfkLy;y) vd;w Gjpa njhFjp rpq;fstHfSf;F cUthf;fg;gl;lJ. jpUNfhzkiy khtl;lj;jpy; rpq;fs ngUk;ghd;ik NrUnty njhFjp 1976 ,y; cUthf;fg;gl;lJ.
vz;gJfspy; =yq;fh muR Nkw;nfhz;l kJu xah rpq;fsf; FbNaw;wj; jpl;lj;jpdhy; NkYk; Mapuf;fzf;fhd rpq;fstHfs; kl;lf;fsg;G khtl;lj;jpd; FbNaw;wg;gl;lhHfs;.
,Nj Nghy; jpUNfhzkiy khtl;lj;jpy; my;iy – fe;jsha; vd;w ghupa FbNaw;wk; ma;k;gJfspy; njhlf;fg;gl;ld. ,jidj; njhlHe;J Kjypf;Fsk; ( nkhwNtth) gjtpf;Fsk; ngupatpshq;Fsk; Nghd;w rpq;fsf; FbNaw;wq;fs; KLf;fptplg;gl;ld.
,e;jj; jpl;lkpl;l rpq;fsf; FbNaw;wq;fshy; fpof;F khfhzj;jpd; ,dthupqhe kf;fs;njhif tpOf;fhL khwj; njhlq;fpaJ. fPNo nfhLf;fg;gl;Ls;s ml;ltiz 1827-1981 ,ilapy; Vw;gl;l khw;wj;ijr; Rl;bf; fhl;LfpwJ.
fpof;F khfhzj;jpy; Vw;gl;l ,dthupahd khw;wq;fs; (1827-1981)
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Rpq;fstH |
jkpoH |
K];ypk;fs; |
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Mz;L |
njhif |
tpOf;fhL |
Njhif |
tpOf;fhL |
njhif |
tpOf;fhL |
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1827 |
250 |
1.30 |
34758 |
75.65 |
11533 |
23.56 |
|
1881 |
5947 |
4.50 |
75408 |
61.35 |
43001 |
30.65 |
|
1891 |
7512 |
4.75 |
87701 |
61.55 |
51206 |
30.75 |
|
1901 |
8778 |
4.70 |
96296 |
57.50 |
62448 |
33.15 |
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1911 |
6909 |
3.75 |
101181 |
56.20 |
70409 |
36.0 |
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1921 |
8744 |
4.50 |
103551 |
53.50 |
75992 |
39.4 |
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1946 |
23456 |
8.40 |
146059 |
52.30 |
109024 |
39.1 |
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1953 |
46470 |
13.10 |
167898 |
47.30 |
135322 |
38.1 |
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1963 |
109690 |
20.10 |
246120 |
45.10 |
185750 |
34.0 |
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1971 |
148572 |
20.70 |
315560 |
43.90 |
248567 |
34.6 |
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1981 |
243358 |
24.90 |
409451 |
41.90 |
315201 |
32.2 |
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1827-1981 |
243108 |
97243.20 |
374693 |
1078.01 |
303668 |
2133.04 |
njd;khfhzj;ijg; NghyNt tlf;fpy; kzyhW (ntyp Xah) FbNaw;wj;jpl;lk; vz;gJfspy; Jupj kfhtyp Nkk;ghl;Lj; jpl;lj;jpd; fPo; fhzp Nkg;ghl;L mikr;rH fhkpdp jprehaf;fhthy; KLf;fp tplg;gl;lJ. ehw;gj;njl;L kzp Neu mtfhrj;jpy; Mapuz;fzf;fhd jkpo;f; FLk;gq;fs; mtHfsJ G+HtPf fpuhkq;fspy; ,Ue;J rpq;fsg; gilahy; tNyhj;fhukhf ntspNaw;wg;gl;ldH.
,d;W kfpe;j ,uhrgf;Nr rpq;fs - gTj;j ,dntwp Ml;rpapy; tl – fpof;F khfhzq;fs; ,uhZtkag;gLj;jg; gLtNjhL Ntf Ntfkhf ; rpq;fs – gTj;j kakhf;fg;gl;Lk; tUfpwJ.