x-pert said:It was just another reason machang.
Before that also there were few disciriminations and few fights for Power.
I think the main and the first reason is the British. And the other Western countries. They are the ones who created the thirst fo power. And they knew as long as there is a war in a country, it will not develop. Western countries dont like developed countries.
Thanx x-pert for your views on this matter and your effort to educate people..
If I may also add...
British always knew who this land belongs to... Sinhalese just lived in the Island they really had no interest what so ever to dig the history because they lived in peace.. But as we know British always explored they found many archaeological evidence of lost Sinhalese civilization which was closely related to Buddhism!! Infact the famous Mahamewna Uyana (Kings Park) was rediscovered by C.P. Bell (states in his notes)
Now.... as LTTE claim this is Tamil's land but this hugely contradict to what they claim because the Sinhalese civilization is clear cut Buddhists and it still is!! Tamils are HINDUS and HINDU was born before Buddhism!! besides, there few or none HINDU monuments in Sri Lanka that dates back to what Anuradhapura and Pollonaruwa has to offer!! So does that mean all Tamil those days were Buddhists?
And all of a sudden all of them changed to being HINDUS? Because of this reason British started to destroy valuable Sri Lankan history....... for this particular reason in 1880's a well organized movement under the leadership of Anagarika Dharmapala and Walisinghe Harischandra was sent to Anuradhapura to protect the remaining historical places!
English knew this all along, and they knew well that Sinhalese would realize this someday and fight back... and English hated Sinhalese because they refused be labors of English tea plantations, and Tamils were easily acquired from India for these jobs (what do they care.. they just workers working for money)... English used them also to spy on Sinhalese to keep us on check and to monitor any Rebel actions against them!!
Selfish Tamil politicians such as Muttu Kumaraswamy, G.G. Ponnambalam, Chelvanayagam all asked for unfair 50-50 representation!! and started causing problems... English in the meanwhile happily watch both races fight over each other!!




