It is believed that the majority sinhalese were sidelined during the British Rule because Tamils by virtue of thier education, their talent cornered all major posts in the Government which led to resentment among the majority community fuelled by chavunistic elements like JVP. It was again a Muslim Minister who drafted certain legislations to the disadvantage of the minority Tamils which made education and employment much more easier to Sinhalese. This explains why LTTE views Muslims always with suspicion and has been the darling of Shiv Sena Supremo Bal thackeray. 

It is a bitter pill to swallow but it is essential minorities wherever they are should always respect majority opinion for thier own safety and well being. The divide annoyed some well educated Tamil families who chose to settle elsewhere in the US , Europe and Australia even though they were ethnic minorities in these places also. Instead of understanding the logic of respecting the laws of the land, these Tamil people were craving for creating a new Tamil Nation out of Sri lanka. They extensively quoted from Sangam literature about the conques of Lanka by chola emperors, about the early continent of human inhabitation called LEMURIA which is belived to have been submerged under the sea. It is believed the earliest human beings were Tamils. Without contesting such beliefs which have no anthropological evidence, the Tamil pride was whipped up among the youth who started militant outfits to liberate Eelam from the clutches of Sinhalese. This dream was packaged and sold to the Sri lankan Tamils as a possible result in which state whole of the Tamil race could settle down., 

Sri Lanka itself is a tiny nation and the so called Eelam constitutes of hardly 20% of geographical space. It is highly imporbable for such a tiny state if ever it were to blossom to succeed. People argue tinier nations exist but the fear that support to this cause will have reverberations and repurcussions wherever Tamils live as ethnic minority such as in Singapore and Malayasia made many world Governments to ignore the demand for creation of an independent Eelam. Nevertheless, numerous militant outfits starting with Tamil Eealm Liberation Organisation of Sri Sabarathinam,to PLOTE of Uma Maheswaran, EPRLF of Padmanabha, LTTE of Velupillai Prabakaran flourished due to large scale pampering of these young men by powers that be in New Delhi which included Mrs. Indira Gandhi who helped them to get sophisticated training in warfare. late TN CM, MG Ramachandran is credited with creating a monster out of Prabakaran. The blue eyed boy of MGR, Prabakaran thought that he and he alone should be the claimant to the title of Savior of Tamils started indiscriminately killing fellow tamils including his own deputy Mahendra Rajah Mathia for his pro Indian views. His victims include Appapillai Amrithalingam. Neelan Thiruselvan, Sri Sabarathinam, Laxman Kadirgamar, Padmanabha and a scores of others. But the Tamil Diaspora was sympathetic to him. Even when LTTE joined with Premadasa to see the back of IPKF, an act of betrayal LTTE and its leaderships were heroes to many. thePresent TN CM Karunanidhi skipped a function to receive IPKF Jawans. His government was dismissed for having transferred verbatim what transpired between him and the then PM Chandrasekar across palk striats to LTTE leader. 

the Tamil population in Lanka constitute two major divisions One the native Tamils and the other tamil settlers from Ramanathapuram, Madurai and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil nadu who settled for plantation jobs . they were led by Ceylonse Workers Congress of Thondaman who was a minister under JR Jayawardane and his deputy Chelladorai is still a Minister. Native Tamils have always betrayed Tamil settlers, and viewed them with contempt. Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan the earliest of Tamil leaders of TULF signed an agreement with Dudley Senanayake to disenfranchise Tamil Settlers, His successor Chelvanayagam supported Srimavo Sastri accord which paved way for large scale evacuation of tamil settlers who still are smarting under the betrayal. Not until the welicade massacre when Kuttimani, Jegan and scores of Tamil leaders were killed by JVP mobs, Tamil settlers were treated with scorn and venom by the native tamils,.In order to consolidate their numerical strength, later on settlers were also included under their umbrella but nevertheless CWC was always part of Sinhalese government. 

theIndo Sri Lankan Accord authored by Rajiv envisaged more devolution of powers for tamils under a unitary constitution. elections were held to provincial assembly which LTTE boycotted and Varadaraja Perumal became CM of an EPRLF led Government. Following the exit of IPKF, Varadaraja Perumal had to seek asylum in India fearing for his life. This is the story of Sri lankan tamil who aspired for the improbable and expected that India will liberate them from under sinhala domination just as Indira Gandhi liberated East Bengal. But the violent methods adopted by their saviour let them down. The indiscriminate killings of Tamils, Sinhalse and everyone opposed to them ideologically made LTTE a terror out fit later on to be proscribed in many countries. However the Tamil diaspora could find some support among scandinavian countries who brokered an interim peace which was used by LTTE to further arm itself. 

Sri Lankan army is in the decisive stage of annihilating a terror outfit conclusively and the dialogue for rehabilitation of internally displaced Tamils should start now and the Rajapakse Government should be sincere in addressing legitimate grievances of Tamils and win their confidence should their battle against LTTE which ravaged the tiny island nation for nearly 3 decades have any meaning at all. Rajapakse should prove to be a statesman and his handling of this humanitarian crisis will provide an insight to the sincerity of all sinhala politicians. He should keep his word.