A FACT-BASED CHALLENGE TO UK-BASED PRO-LTTE YOUTH PROPAGANDA

 

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You claim genocide, occupation, and structural erasure. These are serious allegations that demand serious evidence — legal proof, forensic data, documented history, and verifiable records — not slogans, flags, or emotional scripting.

 

1) “4 FEBRUARY 1948 – BLACK DAY FOR TAMILS”

 

This slogan is a deliberate distortion of history, constructed around the Indian Tamil plantation labour repatriation issue, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the so-called ‘Ceylon Tamils’ or Sinhala discrimination.

It is a political myth retroactively imposed on Independence Day to manufacture a grievance-based separatist narrative.

 

THERE WAS NO SUCH CATEGORY AS “CEYLON TAMIL” BEFORE 1911

 

This is not opinion — it is documented historical fact.

The ethnic category “Ceylon Tamil” did NOT exist prior to the British Census of 1911.

Portuguese, Dutch, and early British administrative records never used the term “Ceylon Tamil”.

Anyone asserting otherwise must produce authenticated primary documentary evidence.

 

HOW TAMILS WERE CLASSIFIED BEFORE 1911

Portuguese Records (1505–1658)

• Malabars
• Malabar Moors
• Coastal Malabars
• Coromandel natives

 

Note: “Malabar” was a broad geographic term, not an ethnic classification, and did not exclusively mean Tamils – it covered Muslims arriving from Coromandel areas of South India too.

Dutch Records (1658–1796)

• Malabaaren
• Malabaars
• Coromandel settlers
• Malabar Coolies

 

British Records (1796–1911)

• Malabars
• Coast Tamils
• Indian Tamils
• Cooly migrants
• Plantation labour

Nowhere in Portuguese, Dutch, or early British records is there a race or ethnic category called “Ceylon Tamil”.

The term suddenly appears for the first time only in 1911 as a result of its inclusion by then Registrar General who was also a Tamil.

 

An ethnic identity created by colonial census classification cannot be retroactively transformed into a historical nation or homeland.

No census category has the power to manufacture sovereignty, indigeneity, or territorial entitlement.

 

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN 1948?

 

The Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948 did NOT target “Ceylon Tamils.”

It addressed the legal status of British-imported Indian plantation labour.

 

These were:

• Recent migrant workers brought in by colonials in mass numbers
• Imported exclusively forcoffee, tea, and rubber plantations
  • Withno ancestral villages in any part of Sri Lanka
  • No land ownership deeds in any part of Sri Lanka
  • No historic settlement continuity in any part of Sri Lanka.

 

Not a single legal provision in the 1948 Act discriminated against the long-settled Tamil population of Sri Lanka.

This is confirmed by the Act’s text, parliamentary debates, and contemporaneous administrative records

https://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/srilanka/statutes/Citizenship_Act.pdf

 

 

COLONIAL DEMOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING

 

By independence:

Over 1.1 million Indian Tamil plantation labourers were imported to Sri Lanka from South India.

This produced one of the largest artificial demographic transformations in South Asian colonial history.

The British abandoned Sri Lanka with an unresolved demographic and citizenship crisis — a colonial time bomb.

 

SHOULD SRI LANKA HAVE AUTOMATICALLY GRANTED CITIZENSHIP?

 

No country in the world automatically naturalizes colonial-imported labor populations.

GLOBAL PRECEDENT:

• Malaysia repatriated Indian labour
• Burma expelled Indian settlers
• Fiji repatriated Indian labour

 

Yet Sri Lanka ultimately absorbed, settled, and later granted citizenship — one of the most humane post-colonial resolutions globally.

 

THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SINHALESE

The Sinhalese did not bring Indian Tamils. The Colonials did.

This was entirely a British colonial labour import project.

To frame this as Sinhala discrimination is historically fraudulent.

 

“TAMIL HOMELAND” CLAIM COLLAPSES COMPLETELY

 

If:

• “Ceylon Tamil” identity was administratively invented in 1911
  • Tamil numbers were artificially inflated by colonial labour import
  • Demographics were engineered through plantation migration and colonial settler colonization schemes in the North & East

 

Then:

The claim of a timeless, sovereign Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka becomes historically and legally indefensible.

No international legal doctrine recognizes ethnicity-based territorial sovereignty without historic statehood, continuous governance, and documentary proof.

 

Tamil presence resulted from:

• Trade
  • Invasions & occupations
  • Colonial plantation labour importation
  • Settler colonization schemes

—not from any indigenous sovereignty.

 

POST-INDEPENDENCE: an Inconvenient Truth

 

Tamils dominated Sri Lanka’s:

• Civil Service
  • Judiciary
  • Medical profession
  • Education sector
  • Administrative elite

 

This is the exact opposite of ethnic oppression and completely demolishes the 4 Feb 1948 “Black Day for Tamils” claim.

 

If 1948 was truly a “Black Day” and genocide against Tamils:

Where are:

• The bodies?
  • The mass graves?
  • Refugee flows?
  • Emergency laws?
  • International protests?

They do not exist.

Because no such genocide occurred.

 

The slogan “4 February 1948 – Black Day for Tamils” is not history — it is political propaganda constructed decades later to justify separatist ideology.

 

“Genocide” Claim – LEGALLY AND FACTUALLY COLLAPSES

Under international law (UN Genocide Convention, 1948), genocide requires:

• Provenintent to destroy a people
• Targeted killing of civiliansbecause of ethnicity
• Systematic annihilation

 

FACT:

• Sri Lanka foughta 30-year war against an armed separatist terrorist organization (LTTE).
• Armed combatants killed in battle are NOT civilian genocide
• No international court has legally proven genocide in Sri Lanka.

 

Even the UN itself:

• Couldnot produce verified body counts
• Relied onanonymous witnesses quoted from pro-LTTE sources
• Usedstatistical extrapolation, not forensic evidence

 

If genocide occurred — where are the mass graves of Tamil civilians killed by the State?

Not LTTE fighters.
Not LTTE suicide bombers.
Not armed cadres dressed in civilian clothing.

Where are the civilian bodies?

 

LTTE: THE GREATEST KILLER OF TAMIL CIVILIANS

You wave LTTE flags.

Do you know what that flag represents?

 

LTTE KILLED:

• Thousands of Tamil civilians
• Over30,000 Tamil children forcibly recruited
• Thousands of Tamils executed for:
  • Refusing recruitment
  • Voting
  • Speaking against Prabhakaran
  • Wanting peace

CHILD SOLDIERS:

• Thousands of Tamil children died wearing cyanide capsules.
• Where were your protests for them?

 

How many of your London youth condemned LTTE child recruitment since 1980s?

ZERO.

If child soldiers matter, why did they not matter when the LTTE used them?

 

THE MYTH OF “TAMIL HOMELAND”

There has never existed a sovereign Tamil state in Sri Lanka.

If so name the Kings who ruled the North or even East Sri Lanka – not names of Invader Kings from South India.

 

Colonial British documents show:

• Mass plantation-era migration of Tamil labor
• State-sponsored Indian Tamil settlement
• Population engineering for plantation economy

 

ARCHAEOLOGY:

• Thousands of Buddhist ruins in North & East
• Brahmi inscriptions dating to3rd century BCE
• Ancient Sinhalese irrigation works throughout North-East

 

Produce one internationally recognized treaty, inscription, map, or royal charter proving a Tamil sovereign homeland.

You cannot.

 

LAND CLAIMS — NO DEEDS, NO OWNERSHIP

Under Roman-Dutch law (Sri Lanka’s current legal system):

Ownership exists only with legal deeds.

 

QUESTIONS:

• Where are your land deeds? Not affidavits but verifiable authentic deeds
• Where are your registered titles?
• Where are your colonial cadastral surveys proving Tamil exclusivity?

 

State land belongs to the entire nation, not one ethnicity.

Slogans cannot win land rights.

No ethnic group owns territory.

 

“Sinhalization” – A POLITICAL BUZZWORD WITHOUT LEGAL BASIS

 

Sri Lanka is:

• One unitary sovereign nation
• Citizens havefreedom of movement
• Any citizen can live anywhere

 

Is a Tamil allowed to live, work own land/property in Colombo?

Yes.

 

Is a Muslim allowed to live, work and own land/property in Kandy?

Yes.

 

Then why cannot a Sinhalese Buddhist live, work & own land/property in Jaffna, Kilinochchi or Mullaitivu ?

Equal citizenship is NOT colonization.

Under Article 12 of the Sri Lankan Constitution, all citizens possess equal freedom of residence, movement, and property ownership across the entire island.
Therefore, the presence of Sinhalese citizens in the North & East cannot legally constitute colonization

 

THE TSUNAMI LIE (2004)

You claim JVP blocked tsunami aid.

• LTTEblocked aid distribution
• LTTErefused joint mechanism
• LTTEconfiscated relief supplies
• LTTEtaxed humanitarian aid

This is documented by international NGOs.

 

YOUR DIASPORA CREDIBILITY COLLAPSES

BASIC QUESTIONS YOU CANNOT ANSWER:

• Have you ever lived in Jaffna?
• Have you ever lived in Mullaitivu?
• Do you know 5 village names in Kilinochchi?
• Do you speak Sri Lankan Tamil dialect?
• Do you know your ancestral village boundaries?

 

Most of you:

• Wereborn abroad
• Havenever lived in Sri Lanka
• Never raised a voice against your Tamil brothers and sisters turned into child soldiers
• Learned history only fromLTTE propaganda networks

 

ASYLUM INDUSTRY & FABRICATED VICTIMHOOD

Thousands of false asylum claims were made using:

• Fake torture stories
• Staged photographs
• Fabricated deaths
• Documented asylum coaching networks that trained applicants to rehearse persecution narratives

 

Several “dead Tamils” later found alive in Europe & India.

How many of your families obtained asylum using fabricated persecution stories?

 

THE REAL INTENT: REVIVING SEPARATISM

Your slogans prove it:

“Tamil Eelam will never fall”

This is not human rights activism.

This is continuation of separatist ideology.

AS PER INTERNATIONAL LAW:

• Separatism via terrorism is illegal.
• Funding, glorifying, and promoting LTTE ideology violates:
  • UK Terrorism Act
  • EU terror financing laws
  • UN counterterrorism conventions

 

YOU NEVER PROTESTED LTTE CRIMES

Where were your protests when LTTE:

 

• Massacred over 600 police officers?
• Ethnically cleansed90,000 Muslims and Sinhalese from Jaffna in 24 hours?
• Killed Tamil dissenters?
• Used civilians ashuman shields and hostages?
• Kidnapped Tamil children from their homes & turned them into child soldiers

 

Selective outrage = political propaganda.

 

FINAL CHALLENGE TO UK-BASED PROTESTERS

If your cause is legitimate, then:

 

Produce:

1. Legal proof of Tamil sovereignty
2. The names of the 40,000 dead in Mullaivaikkal (not dead LTTE cadres)
3. Civilian mass grave evidence/at least skeletons
4. Land ownership deeds
5. Archaeological proof of exclusive and continuous Tamil habitation

 

Without these — your entire narrative collapses.

 

TRUTH:

• Sri Lanka didnot defeat Tamils.
• Sri Lanka defeatedthe world’s most brutal terrorist organization.
• Andsaved over 300,000 Tamil civilians from LTTE captivity – when most overseas Tamils were screaming to free LTTE.

 

MESSAGE TO DIASPORA YOUTH

 

We do not oppose any Tamil individual seeking education, safety, or opportunity overseas. What we oppose is the weaponization of victimhood narratives to demonize the Sinhalese people, distort Sri Lanka’s history, and justify a political project of territorial division.

 

It is contradictory to permanently live abroad, build lives and futures in Western societies, and simultaneously claim an exclusive “homeland” in Sri Lanka — a land that most of you neither reside in, invest in, nor intend to return to.

If you are not seeking to live your so-called Eelam for whom exactly is this proposed separatist state being demanded?

 

Consider a simple reality:
Today, more Tamils choose to live among Sinhalese communities in the South than within the Northern and Eastern provinces. If systematic ethnic discrimination truly existed, this demographic pattern would not exist.

 

Why do Tamil families voluntarily settle in Sinhala-majority areas?
Because:

• They find safety
• They find economic opportunity
• They find social coexistence
• They find dignity and freedom

 

Equally important — long-standing caste-based discrimination in the North and East has pushed many Tamils to seek better social mobility outside their own traditional power structures. This is a reality rarely acknowledged in diaspora discourse.

 

Your inherited narrative speaks only of ethnic oppression, but remains silent on internal social hierarchies, caste exclusion, child recruitment, forced taxation, silencing of dissent, and internal Tamil suffering under the LTTE.

 

You were not raised on comprehensive history or its truth.
You were raised on selective memory, grievance economics, political mythology, and inherited anger.

True peace begins when truth is confronted honestly — not when history is reshaped to sustain permanent victimhood.

 

Justice is not achieved by rewriting a fake history

Reconciliation begins when facts replace propaganda.

Peace begins when history is accepted, not manipulated.

 

 

 

Shenali D Waduge