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The Will of the People

This was how they have behaved in the past,  those who are now claiming to be here to protect the “Will of the People”. The 2005 Presidential Election was won by bribing the LTTE Terrorist in US Dollars (something they loathe so much only in open) and preventing the peace-loving voters in the East and North from casting their votes. The 2010 Presidential Election was done by a Compute Jilmart and holding the Election Commissioner hostage in the Water’s Edge. Tried the same thing in the 2015 Presidential Election again but had to leave the Temple Trees because of external pressure. In 2018, they staged a political coup and came to power to be kicked out in a few weeks’ time by the Supreme Court. When they realized that they could not muster enough votes, they tried to buy parliamentarians from other parties by offering bribes up to US Dollars 5 million. And now they are claiming to be here to uphold the Will of the People. Will any sensible person believe that someone who had been v...

Misconceived Notion of Some Tamils.

Misconceived Notion of Some Tamils By Sasanka De Silva - Sultanate of Oman It is a common and general misconception that the Tamils in Sri Lanka took arms against the Sinhalese because of the discriminatory practices by the latter against the minority Tamils. There are two types of Tamils in Sri Lanka. One is the Sri Lankan Tamils and the others the Indian Tamils. The latter were brought to the island by the British to work in Tea plantations. They comprise 5.6% of the population. On the other hand, the Sri Lankan Tamils whom the LTTE terrorists claim that they are duty bound to liberate and are calling for the Eelam are 12.6%. Out of which, 6.5% live in the Northern part of Sri Lanka, 2.7% in the East and the rest, 3.4% live in the other parts of the country. If the discriminations against the minority were so prevalent then the numbers would have drastically been different. Almost half of the Sri Lankan Tamils are living side by side with the majority and other e...