CORRECTION: At 3:41 I say that half the population of Jaffna had been Sinhalese. This is incorrect. On looking back at my sources I found this from Gordon Weiss: "Prior to the rise of the Tamil Tigers, around 10 per cent of the population of Jaffna had been Sinhalese who had peacefully coexisted with their neighbours for generations". Other sources (e.g. Wikipedia) put the number lower than that. I've tried to put in a correction card on the video itself but it hasn't worked. My apologies and thank you to those people who pointed this out. Secondly, there are many comments on this video accusing me of bias. While of course it is impossible to be completely neutral, and on such a sensitive issue it is probably inevitable that many people think I have a bias one way or another, the one thing I would point out is that this video is meant to be watched as part of a series. Of course this video focuses on the LTTE and what they did, and spends comparatively less time on the actions of the Sri Lankan army. That is because in the next few videos I will be focusing on the other combatant in this conflict. After that I will, no doubt, get accusations coming from the other side. Ultimately, I hope, I will have achieved some sort of balance and, I must say, I still stand by almost all of the information presented so far in this series (with the exception of the correction above).
Gordon Weiss statistic is also completely wrong, likely got from hear say. Census data is clear, for most of the 19th and 20th century the area was 99% Tamil speaking: www.np.gov.lk/pdf/Statistical-Inofrmation-2010.pdf The other statistic that is wildly wrong in this video is the claim that LTTE killed 160 Tamil members of parliament. There has not been the deaths of so many Tamil MPs due to murder full stop, irrespective of perpetrator.
These are some critiques given by another user: There are many downright false and misleading information in your video, which seems to be biased in favour of the Sinhalese/government side. 1) Prabhakaran wasn’t born in a “low caste” but middle. 2) You say over 160 Tamil MPs were killed by the LTTE. could you cite a scholarly literature for this claim that doesn’t ultimately originate from government or other biased Sinhalese sources? 3) You briefly mention the Black July but severely downplay its significance, while you expand upon far less significant LTTE attacks. It was a state-sponsored genocidal pogrom against Tamil civilians, killing thousands, and displacing many more. It was this that led to the exponential growth of the LTTE from a handful of youths. 4) You mention the November 1984 LTTE massacre of civilians (at Kent and Dollar Farm) but what you omit is that these were convicts and their families settled on land seized from Tamils after expelling its occupants. These convicts and their prison guards would abduct and gang rape Tamils from neighbouring villages and harass them into leaving the area, which, understandably, provoked retaliation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_and_Dollar_Farm_massacres Multiple massacres of Tamil civilians by government forces had taken place from 1983 onwards prior to the LTTE's first targeting of civilians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces 5) You say that before the rise of the LTTE, half of the Jaffna population had been Sinhalese, but a quick look at government’s own census will tell you that in 1971 Sinhalese made up only 2.9% of the population and for a long time before that it was close to 0%. You clearly haven’t done your research but are only parroting claims from shady sources. 6) You rationalize SL army atrocities by saying it’s “understandable” why they would behave like that given the circumstances but you don’t qualify LTTE atrocities in the same way but instead you detail them without any context. clearly shows your bias. For example, what triggered the Anuradhapura massacre was this massacre carried out in Prabhakaran's home town: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Valvettiturai_massacre 7) You list several atrocities attributed to the LTTE but you manage to mention only one SL Army massacre of Tamil civilians, that too tucked away toward the end where an average viewer probably wouldn’t get to and qualifying it as a “retaliation”. The scale of atrocities by government forces against Tamils far outnumbers the crimes committed by the LTTE and there is complete impunity for these crimes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_against_Tamils_in_Sri_Lanka 8) Most Tamils in diaspora donated voluntarily, not due to any threat as you make it out to be based on selective cases. 9) You indiscriminately implicate “Tamils” as a whole, without any qualification, in drug trafficking, which is racist, considering only a fringe section of street gangs and other criminal elements were involved in it and even the US government admitted it wasn’t sure of LTTE’s involvement in it.
@@sltruth317 As he got exposed and all his real intentions of whitewashing the Sinhala military and criminalising the Tamils legitimate struggle for independence became crystal clear, he began creating a fake drama like he was correcting his own mistakes. This guy is so cunning!
@@ashelythas7017 (1) There was a disproportionate amount of Dalit cadres towards the end of the war, but how does that make it a Dalit movement? what kind of illogic is that. Prabhakaran - Karaiyar, Pottu Amman - Vellalar, Tamilselvan - Dalit. The organisation was not formed around caste, but around Tamil nationalism. Btw unless you have access to the LTTE's member caste % then all these claims are based on conjecture, not solid statistics. (2) Spamming a bunch of massacres against Muslims after 1990 does not mean anything. The situation changed then. As Ameer Ali a Muslim scholar from Kattankudy himself said in the article I sent you: "the LTTE, which is militarily by far the strongest and financially the wealthiest of the Tamil organizations, made several attempts to incorporate the Muslim community into its movement by demonstrating to the Muslims the hidden dangers of Sinhals Buddhist chauvinism and the need for joint action to arrest it. One should not dismiss these early efforts of the LTTE as a simple propaganda stunt to win Muslim support. Their arguments were based on sound analyses of Sri Lanka's post-independence development model whose benefits have been particularly discriminatory towards the minorities. The think-tank of the LTTE showed with facts and figures how the Muslims have lost their agricultural lands through government colonization schemes and how they have lost their commercial and trading interests through communally biased commercial policies of the state. In fact the district development of the sixties and seventies hit the Muslims harder economically than the other communities. A number of Muslim youth thus became convinced of Tamil militant ideology and joined the LTTE's military wing. In several Muslim villages and towns the LTTE opened its branch offices and was gradually gaining popularity amongst certain sections of the Muslim community."
@@ashelythas7017 ok stop throwing strawman arguments and taking the argument on a tangent. Your original erroneous point was that the LTTE never cared for Indian origin Tamils and Tamil Muslims. That has now been disproven. They were very open to the Muslims at the beginning. But it did not last as the majority of Muslims refused to identify with the Tamils and Tamil Eelam. I am not denying any of the atrocities the LTTE later did to Muslims.
நாம் சிங்களவராக இருந்தாலும் சரி, தமிழராக இருந்தாலும் சரி, நாம் அனைவரும் மனிதர்கள். நாங்கள் போரை விரும்பவில்லை. எங்களுக்கு ஜாதி வேற்றுமை வேண்டாம், மத பேதம் வேண்டாம். இதற்கெல்லாம் ஆரம்பம், அரசியல் விளையாடுபவர்கள், தேசிய நோக்கத்திற்காக வாக்குகளைப் பெறுவதற்கு, நாட்டின் ஒட்டுமொத்த சமூகத்திற்கும் கொடுத்த தவறான உதாரணம். நாம் சிந்தித்து, அவர்களின் தவறுகளை புத்திசாலித்தனமாகப் பார்த்து, இது போன்ற போர் இனி நடக்காமல் இருக்க ஒற்றுமையாக இருக்க வேண்டும் என்று நம் இதயத்தில் எடுத்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டும். இந்த நாடு நம் அனைவருக்கும் சொந்தமானது. சிங்கள, தமிழ், முஸ்லிம் மற்றும் கத்தோலிக்க நாடு. நாம் அனைவரும் மனிதர்கள். நாங்கள் சண்டையிட்டு பிரிந்து செல்ல விரும்பவில்லை. யுத்தம், பொருளாதாரப் பின்னடைவு, அப்பாவிப் பொது மக்களின் குழந்தைகள் அகால மரணம் என எதைப் பெற்றோம். அந்த அரசியல்வாதிகளின் பிள்ளைகள் போருக்குச் செல்லவில்லை. எங்களைப் போன்ற சாதாரண தமிழர்கள் மற்றும் சிங்கள மக்களின் பிள்ளைகள் கொல்லப்பட்டனர். இந்த வீடியோவை பார்த்து வெறுப்பை அடைய வேண்டாம். இந்த விஷயங்களை மீண்டும் வேண்டாம் என்று புத்திசாலித்தனமாக வேலை செய்யுங்கள். மதப்படி வேலை செய்யுங்கள். நான் சிங்களவன். ஆனால் எனக்கு தமிழ் நண்பர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள். நாங்கள் ஒன்றாக சாப்பிடுகிறோம், ஒரே படுக்கையில் தூங்குகிறோம், ஒன்றாக பயணம் செய்கிறோம். எங்களிடம் தமிழ் அன்பர்கள் உள்ளனர், தமிழ் நண்பர்களுக்கு சிங்கள காதலர்கள் உள்ளனர். உங்களால் நேசிக்க முடிந்தால், ஏன் போர்? இலங்கை இராணுவம் மற்றும் விடுதலைப் புலிகள் இருபுறமும் எங்களுடைய சொந்த மக்களைக் கொண்டிருந்தனர். போர் முடிந்துவிட்டது. மீண்டும் போரை முடிவுக்கு கொண்டு வர மத, இனவாதத்தை தூண்டாமல், அரசியலில் ஏமாறாமல் பாடுபடுவோம்
Are you absolutely sure? *Rig Veda 1.103.3* “With His thunderbolt, He destroyed the cities of the Dasyus, and strengthened the Ārya.” *Rig Veda 3.34.9* "Indra possessed the Sun, Horses, Cow. He struck the Dasyus, and protected the Ārya tribe." *Rig Veda 4.16.13* “You have subjugated Pipru and the mighty Mṛgayā for the sake of Ṛjiṣvan, the son of Vidathin; you have slain the fifty thousand Kṛṣṇas; and, as old age (destroys) life, you have demolished the cities.” *Rig Veda. 8.87.6* "Thou, Indra, art the destroyer of all the cities, the slayer of the Dasyus, the prosperer of man, the lord of the sky."
As a sri lankan who moved to Australia, i will tell you that while i may not have much understanding on the diplomatic and political environment of this war, as many people seem to call out misinformation and have different stories, that this is the problem with 3rd world and second world countries. The political figures can take advantage of the people and start meaningless conflicts for their own benefits. Neither the sri lankans nor the tamils benefitted from the war and deaths were caused for no reason other than to line the pockets or ego of some corrupt politician.
same thing happens with richer countries too, propaganda is used by every faction,especially USA,Russia or China...even covid-19 was basically a heavily propagandized global event and with all the internet we still don't know what really happened, there was no reason to put the whole world into lockdown
100% correct and also a MOSAAD officer in his book WAY OF DECEPTION tells how Israel was training and arming both LTTE and SRI LANKAN ARMY at the same time and made money. His job was to see that both LTTE party and Sri Lankan commando party do not come in contact with each other at any hotel or training centre and Israel's game plan gets exposed.
In 1981 Jaffna Library was burnt by the government forces. In this planned attack nearly 100000 Tamil books were burnt ashes. In July 1983 more than 4000 Tamils were massacred and all of their assets worth millions of dollars were burnt and looted by thugs backed by then president JR Jayawardene in Colombo. More than 60 Tamil prisoners were killed in Colombo prisons by the government in this planned attack by the government. Alex failed to mention these incidents.
@@cameronpillay8050 Tamils are a great an honorable race. As Sinhalese we have nothing but respect for them. Thennn we have Sakilli separatists buggers lyk u 😂😂😂 thats another story
You missed the part where Indian government trained, armed and sponsored Tamil militants back in the 80's. Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) set up 32 training camps all over India to train 6 Sri Lankan Tamil insurgent groups.
And also that india send it's army to fight them and so many around 1400 soldier are killed and india also provide intelligance help and why they train them because they want America out it's not actually india who give them training it's USSR using india
For their own benifit to keep Tamils as dogs with bad intention but not really supporting us. Moreover other countries asked for support from India but our Leader Prabhakaran asked only training from the India although they were ready to support us. Tiger 💪🏼
Don’t spread lies. The Sinhalese didn’t make up 50% of the Jaffna population before the Tigers emerged. According to official 1971 census by the government, Sinhalese only made up 2.9% of the population, while Tamils 95.5%. See the demographics section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_District… Please correct your misinformation.
I’m sorry if this person’s statistics are wrong, let’s not worry on the inaccurate reasons, and go to sleep tonight thinking about all the lives that were taken in this shit show (from Booth sides)
@@Man-of-Steel674 veddas were the first people on the island, and Tamils have legal deeds for their land which they have lived on since time immemorial. You think the native Aboriginal hunter gatherers of the island did not lose land when civilised man arrived from northern India. Even the Mahavamsa story says they were chased away into the mountains. It is hypocrisy to accuse others of stealing, when ones origin myth admits the same.
I'm reading The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and couldn't understand any references to the civil war, didn't understand the ideologies and perspectives of the sides, which led me to this series. I am so grateful. Being a Nepali, I was shamefully clueless about the sri lankan history but now I feel much more capable of understanding the context and situation. Love this series. So well made. Thank you so much Alex.
There was never a time in history where the population in Jaffna was 50% Sinhalese. You are spreading false and fake news. Also your claim that the demand for a Homeland came from the Tigers is also false. It was a democratic mandate and that mandate is still high. Tamils had their own kingdom which was even recognized by the colonial rulers. Eelam Tamils have a right to self-determination. You are whitewashing the whole genocide of the Tamils and why they even started to fight in the first place.
If you want self-determination, then declare war and we will blow your hokey pokey Eelam to kingdom come. You were invaders in a Sinhalese land that came to steal, Sinhala kings were kind enough to let you live after defeating you including Mahinda and now you want independence, up yours. If you wanna live peacefully, live peacefully or die. When is the last time Sinhalese came to harass you after the war, yeah that's right 0. but how many times I've seen you act racist, every time I see one of you. Don't test our patience, this a not warning but a threat.
@@Man-of-Steel674 under that primitive logic you are InVaDeRs in a vedda land. Jaffna kingdom area was out of Sinhala rule for the last 700 years. You can't ignore the centuries of separate history that Tamils had in the island.
Nice but some group see him as a hero but most of srilankan see him as a ruthless terrorists. That kills civilians and trying to take land that not belongs to ltte.
What is the root cause of the Tamil struggle for freedom? To gain a better understanding, we need to examine both sides of the story since independence from British colonial rule in the 1950s. In particular, we should explore the events surrounding the Black July riots in 1983. The government's perspective is not the only one, and it's essential to speak with local Tamils who have witnessed the true atrocities committed by Buddhist extremists. It's crucial to avoid bias and acknowledge the genuine pain and suffering that Tamils have endured, and continue to face today. In the north-east region, there is currently one army personnel for every five civilians. Tamils have demanded peace and equal rights since the end of British colonization, but these basic rights have been denied. Government forces have committed horrific crimes, including rape and massacres, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. As a result, Tamil women have taken up arms and joined the Tigers to retaliate. For them, it is better to die fighting for freedom than to suffer rape and murder at the hands of the ruthless Buddhist forces.
Ltte did the same thing to sinhala and muslim civilians ltte did hundreds of suside attacks around sri lanka and killed thousand of sri lanka civilians also ltte destroyed sinhala and muslim village and killed civilians to can't u remember that? Where is sinhala and muslim village that was been in north and east side answer is ltte killed that all civilians in .1983 riot start becaz ltte killed our 12 soldiers useing c4s.ltte start at 1975 in that time they active like pistol gang and they kill civilians and did couple of bank robbery thats how they expand there organization=ltte sinhalese people endured from 1975 to 1983 what ltte did but not after our soldiers get killed by ltte thats how riot get started ltte also did massacre/genocide ltte use there own tamil ppl like a human shield at 2009 our army rescued more than 300k tamil civilians from ltte in that situation didn't u remember it and now there is leftover ltte members who worked for sri lanka government u can see them if you watch WENASA youtube channel also your ltte former leaders families also still live sri lanka safely
@@usernameis9157 The problem started with since the 1948 Ceylon Citizenship Act where a sizable Malaiyaha Tamils were disenfranchised by D.S. Senanayaka government. Then Sinhala Only Act No 33. of 1956 during SWRD's time and later pogroms initiated against Tamils in late 1950s. Language issue is the heart of this problem which was exacerbated through the Standardization Act in the 1970s by Sirimavo government where merit based university entrace was changed to a quota system limiting minority representation in government services and science. It is the continued marginalization that pushed some to resort to armed conflict. Tamil politicians are also to be blamed as well. However, most acts implemented were populist moves by then governments. Further, Tigers is an organization that is not representative of the Tamil civilian. In that case, projecting hate on a community because of the atrocities committed by a terror group is not right. Even if you forget about the Sri Lankan Tamil, the issues faced by Indian Tamils are still not addressed. They largely remain a stateless group with limited opportunities to upward social mobility. While the video provides good insight to the rebel group and their brutality, I would expect the producer to make a distinction between the rebels and the civilians and how marginalization of minority civilians occurred since independence from the Brits who are also directly responsible for the plight we are all in at present.
@Mailman There are many Indians who were brought to countries such as Guyana, Trinidad, Ceylon, Mauritius, Fiji, Malaysia, and others. These individuals currently reside peacefully and hold first citizen status in most places, except for Ceylon (also known as China-loan) at present. It seems unnecessary to send back Indians who were brought to the island centuries ago by the British, particularly considering their crucial role in the production of Ceylon tea. They are the backbone of this industry.
Recent statisstics put it more around 98 percent, in jaffna, with the population percentage in the overall country as 75 percent. Theres a reason that the main people in turkey are the turkish, and in Mexico are Mexicans, same as how in sri lanka the main people are the sinhalese
90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was Brought here by portuguese , dutch , british to costal aria to work as slave workers time to time from india, for various slave purposes (before they were lower cast tamils in india , sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers then immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from sound india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were alway fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐 30 years of civil war was created by british , dutch and portuguese colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese.
Bro hands down one of the best documentaries regarding the topic I’ve enjoyed watching after journeyman documentaries . Everything from narration , editing and the video shots you took were great and respect for visiting Sri Lanka . 🫡
In response, you say the army killed civilians. But that is not accurate. The Army were massacring Tamil civilians well before the Tigers starting targeting civilians from 1984 onwards: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces
haha very funny . LTTE even used hundreds of Tamil civilians even as human shields and SL army had great difficulties and great losses when trying to save those innocent people. so if they wanna just massacr them why would they even care saving them? most of the facts about ltte doesn't show its true face . ltte soldiers were brain washed and in most of the battles front lines were occupied by teens with no experience in battle . anyway if you ask ever ask a person who lived in northern or eastern sides of sri lanka ,they are one of the people who are most happy due to the SL governments victory. The only people who are supporting and saying good things about prabakaran and ltte are the some what wealthy people who fled to Canada and other European countries during the war. anyway when prabakaran was captured he couldn't even come out of his hiding place to surrender, instead he sent his kid with a white flag (the kid was very young at that time probably less than 10).
It's not "ssooooo" one sided. What gives the Tamil "Tigers" the right to kill innocent and slaughter innocent people including children?? They massacred innocent people just because they were a different race/religion. They killed innocent Sinhalese,innocent Buddhists,Muslims etc. They attacked civilians and places of worship. They used suicide b@mbrs. How is that differen t to isis terrorists??? How can you kill small kids and just murder people in cold blood who havent done anything wrong to you? Even if Tamils were persecuted and attacked they should fight/attack the people hurting then,not kill and slaughter innocent civilians especially little children. There's no justification for that,no excuse for atrocities. That's just evil. Those are exactly the same terrorist tactics, in fact it was the Tamil Tigers who invented suicide missions. Now look what happened to the Tamil "tigers?" You believe in Karma, so all the evil killing of innocent people's resulted in many more Tamils getting killed, even today they still suffering due to the war and the Tamil "tigers "are destroyed, it's leaders all dead, the organization no longer exists as a military force or political group. Karma,right? Isn't that poetic justice? For shooting murdering lots of innocent people and shooting their kids like the massacres and attacks on villages and other people's religious places. It's funny how you complaining of massacred Tamils yet the Tamil" Tigers" when they had power they showed no mercy to innocent people who weren't Tamils and forced even young Tamil kids to fight for them. How can you defend those actions? They slaughtered innocent people even kids. Can you shoot or stab a small infant child? That's what they did. Many times. You say innocent Tamils killed yet the tigers did the exact same evil horrific crimes of ethnic cleansing. War crimes and terrorism. Where did it get them? The tigers still lost the war badly. They believe in Karma,they got what they deserved. Anybody who supports them is supporting a terrorist organization,what they did is the definition of terrorism,unjust violence against innocents for political,racial, religious motives. The evidence of their many cold blooded sadistic crimes is plenty, it's truth based on facts, it's not a,lie or propaganda,the Tamil "tigers" really did mass murder innocent civilians including women and children. They used child soldiers too. They were a despicable organization. Slaughtering many people families,littlw innocent children with their families who didn't do anything wrong but just because they were different race or religion the Tamil cowards attacked them. How is that right in your perverted mind ? It's hypocrisy.
So much misleading information in this video. When was Jaffna ever 50% Sinhalese?? Don’t make videos with incorrect information. This is so disappointing.
Though I am hindu but do not support these terrorist and they were not even hindus their leaders were Christian. I support Sinhalese people due to same Aryan bloodline
Hey ask your aryan simhalese how they were bullied for 30 years by a simple force of peasants and also ask your martial races of sikhs what happened to 1,00,000 inidian ipkf who were send to disarm ltte. They will tell you what ltte was . You guys are big joke and got ruled by mughals and all other people who came we dravidians of south india are unique and dont mess with us and i am not a srilankan tamil but a malayali speaking for my dravidian brothers.
Wow, this is the most comprehensive analysis on the Sri Lankan history post independence I have seen. I really enjoyed the series, and hope all Sri Lankans growing up watch this and understand our country's past. May we understand the importance of peacefulness and treat each other with respect , at least from now on. I hope and pray for economic growth, peacefulness and stability! My compliments to you!
The tigers were the ones between Tamils being landless like rohinya and a state for Tamils ,, ALL the rights Tamils have now were gotten by those guns ,,, those terrorists were peace keepers compared to the genocider army of SL state that killed 200,000 Tamils for its self interests
Most of the Tamils were brought to Jaffna by the Duch East India Company to cultivate tobacco. Thanks to the British help they write you a fack history book which your fack history book"Yalpana Vaipava Malai" . There is no archeological evidence about Tamil's existence beyond 500 years.Elam was an ancient civilization which located todays Iran before 3000 .Couldn't LTTE find a Tamil name for your country instead of Iran name?Separate your Tamil country from India.
@@shashediri544 lol. Yaalpaana vaipava malai was written during the Dutch period NOT British period, and it records centuries of historical memories, so your claim of Tamils mainly migrating during Dutch period is a just a lie meant to demean Tamils and deny them their rights as native citizens.
It's important to conduct thorough research before creating content, especially when discussing sensitive and complex issues such as the formation of the Tamil Tigers. It's worth acknowledging that the conflict in Sri Lanka involved atrocities committed by both sides, and the United Nations was denied access to investigate these crimes against humanity. If the Sri Lankan government is truly committed to justice and transparency, they should allow the international community to visit and assess the situation in affected areas. There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the fate of hundreds of innocent men and women who were forcibly taken from their families for questioning and never returned. It's essential to seek answers and accountability for these cases, and if the missing persons are still alive, their cases should be pursued and addressed. Let's approach these sensitive issues with respect and a commitment to seeking the truth, rather than resorting to baseless accusations and blame.
At the end of the day no matter how you come down to it both the tigers and the government did wrong. tigers murdered civilians on busses murdered innocent Muslims etc. and the Sri Lankan government murdered thousands of innocent Tamils what’s done is done. the Sri Lankan government did the same thing in the JVP insurrections. where they murdered innocent Sinhalese people the government has committed atrocities but 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
@@iniyanprabhakaran and the Sri Lankan government murdered close to 60,000 people during the JVP insurrections what’s your point ? I know the Indian government did the same thing to Tamils as well.
You can make a similar story for Bangladesh as it has a diverse history from it's origins, to the British occupation to independence until now, there is a lot to cover 🇧🇩 🇧🇩 🇧🇩
Could you kindly provide evidence to support your claim that 50% of Jaffna's population was made up of Sinhalese? Regarding the expulsion of Muslims from the area, some argue that it was due to their perceived disloyalty to both Tamils and extremist Sinhalese. However, it's important to recognize that this is a complex and controversial issue rather than spreading harmful and divisive rhetoric based on false information.
Before the war there were lot of Sinhalese lived in Jaffna because Jaffna was one of the major city in Sri Lanka. Despite the sinhala government servants working in Jaffna, Jaffna was the economic hub for unemployed Sinhala youth in the south. In the beginning of the war there were considerable amount of Sinhalese lived settled and lived peacefully there. Prabhakaran always wanted to create this notion "Jaffna is only for Tamils" as result of that under LTTE rule larger amount of Sinhalese evacuated from Jaffna peninsula. At the end last two Sinhala men who worked in a bakery shop in Jaffna were tighten to an electric pole and burned alive in 1992 by LTTE
The LTTE did not stand up for the Tamils. They just used the Tamil people for their terrorism. Why another state of Eelam when the Tamil people have Tamil Nadu? Why are they dividing this beautiful island? All that is only for the narrow goals of the terrorists. Sri Lanka expects the brotherhood of all Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims
@@dilstory8267 Go and see for yourself in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Buddhist extremists are destroying Tamil sacred temples and constructing Buddhist temples in their place. Several private lands have been taken over by the Sinhalese forces, but they are yet to be returned. If Tamils were granted self-determination and equal rights, then why does the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) exist? If Tamils were treated with equality, why would they send their children to join the Tigers? Even educated and high-ranking Tamil populations were compelled to join the freedom struggle of the LTTE due to the oppressive actions of the Sinhalese, which had a detrimental impact on the minority community. If it were not for the brutality of Sinhalese chauvinism, there would be no need for the LTTE or the separate state of Eelam.
@Mailman manimekalai does not mention the word Sinhala once..it says Nagas. You don't know what you are talking about, read the actual source rather than listen to second hand information
Cheers mate! Got a new one coming then I've wrapped the series. Then onto the next series from this past summer. Hope you're doing well back there and the family is happy and healthy!
Why not you talk about war crime against Tamil civilians,some story you are lied,you need read history of Ceylon,you don’t know Eelam means in Tamil ? Mean is gold,that’s why every one trying control Sri Lanka , who ?
@@samsonz0 is it because this time LTTE painted as bad guys by this journalist..? There are two sides and this is one side.. Don't think only tamils are right..
Ltte stands for that, and some tamils still fight for separate homeland politically. They don't feel Sri Lankan as of yet as their politicians drilled the separate homeland concept after the British left.
I’m sorry if you are offended but I don’t think there is any suggestion in the thumbnail that Tamils, as a group, are terrorists. Of course they aren’t! But the internationally accepted name for the LTTE is the Tamil Tigers and far fewer people know the LTTE so that’s the name I went with, and I think that’s defensible. I want to also be clear that I have no bias in either direction between the Tamils and Sinhalese and, in fact, in my travels found both groups to be wonderful. I hope you will watch the video and afterwards please feel free to share if you think I’ve gotten anything wrong
@@AlexRothman No Alex you have done a wonderful job. But what I mean is, calling ltte as tamil tigers might portrait an unclear view as every tamil fought for ltte. But it is not what happened. Ethnic tamils like admiral Sinniah, Ranjan Kadiragamar was on the top of the list of the anti ltte campaign. So now you say a blacklisted terror organization by 33 countries have been manned by Sri Lankan tamils? Every tamil? Even Sri Lanka's most honored men like admiral sinniah?
Sri lanka went through a period of war yes a hard time, innocent tamil, muslims and innocent Sinhalese died because of the LTTE who started the war with suicide bombers. Sinhalese people didn't ask for war, but they ended the war once for all. My country is now in peace with all races.! BTW I'm a Sinhalese tamil. 🇱🇰
Also, all of us, Sinhalese and Tamil, are thankful to the Sri Lanka Army for creating an environment if we can live in peace again. We love the Sri Lankan Army 🥺❤️🇱🇰
Hey Alex. I’m a Sri Lankan. I enjoy your videos very much. Don’t factor these negative comments into your thing. Just do your work/art good and keep rocking as always. Love from SL. ❤❤. Looking forward to your next episode of the series 😮
@@musicheals1665You think that we Sri Lankan Lions are afraid of you Tamil Tigers? Dude what happened to your murdering Boss Prabakaran? 😂😂😂 We will give our lives to protect Sri Lanka from anyone who is trying to harm Sri Lankans or divide Sri Lanka...
You are spreading fake news " All 14 guerrillas were killed, along with six Sri Lankan air force personnel and one soldier killed by friendly fire. Twelve soldiers were injured, along with three Sri Lankan civilians and a Russian engineer. No tourists were harmed during the attack. " Aircraft destroyed: 1 Mi-17 attack helicopter, 1 Mi-24 attack helicopter, 3 K-8 jet trainers, 2 Kfir fighter jets, 1 MiG-27 fighter jet, 2 Airbus A330s, 1 Airbus A320, 1 Airbus A340 Aircraft damaged: 5 K-8 jet trainers, 5 Kfir fighter jets, 1 MiG-27 fighter jet, 1 Airbus A340, 1 Airbus A320 1 other military aircraft "
oh yea thats why Jaffna tamils dont respect trinco tamils who dont respect Batticoloa tamils and all hate up country tamils. If you want a homeland Tamil Nadu is right there
A lot of misinformation in this video particularly about the fact that there were 50% Sinhalese living in Jaffna before the war - this is just to further boost the Mahavamsa mindset and Sinhala nationalism. This misinformation is probably part of Ranil W’s brainwashing campaign.
90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was Brought here by portuguese , dutch , english to costal aria to work as slave workers after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese and immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from sound india ) became registar general changed those indian tamils Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐
@@x96x67 After a long time, the original owners were the Sinhalese, they were 1st, then the Tamils who fled from India stayed there, and then they organized and tried to carve that part out of the country, killing innocent people and committing barbaric acts.
The conflict can be traced back to the post-colonial period when the British left Sri Lanka, and the Sinhalese majority gained political power. The government implemented policies that favored the Sinhalese population, such as making Sinhala the only official language and promoting Buddhism as the state religion. This led to the marginalization of the Tamil minority, who were primarily Hindu and spoke Tamil. The Tamil minority began to demand equal rights, autonomy, and the recognition of their language and culture. However, their peaceful protests were met with violence,
It was the problem..the sinhala only act.. But now it's different..most of the people(speacially the young generation)don't care about this war thing..i am one of those young people..i didn't have any idea about what all this conflict about..now I do cuz of these kind of commenting..not only here but everywhere I go..(specially on social meadia) I have tamil friends too and I know it can be same with some tamils..but this kind of things,fighting could break our relationship..that is not good..in south there tamils too(mostly indian tamils)..but they live with other ethnic people with no problems..the people who were part of the past generations(war time) put those terrible thoughts in to young peoples mind..let's stop that..young people know only studying well is the way.. Just think how selfish some Eelam supporters..look how most of them say that they need their justice..but the only reson why they are trying to get their justice is to win an Eelam.. War is over..most of who faced the war lost things they cared for they loved for.. we can't change the past but the future.. the only solution to this issue is uniting together..that is the only way we can make both sided happy..
@@wolves2529 keep dreaming. It seems unlikely that you'll be able to live in peace and harmony, my friend. The presence of corrupt politicians, particularly those who wear orange robes and incite hatred among Buddhists while claiming Sri Lanka to be the land of Buddha, is likely to prevent that. Unfortunately, it appears that Sri Lanka is on a downward spiral towards chaos, and things may get even worse in the future
This madness took away sooo many lives.. people killing people. I'm glad its over and people are all happy. War must never happen again. Its time to make ploughs of the swords and build a unified prosperous Sri Lanka. God bless us one Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
You really chosing to listen to a white mans words where he is saying false statements. Please Learn your history. The War started because of the Sri lankan Governement and their discrimination towards Tamils. We were treated like the less superior race, stripped away from our rights. When this happens to your people in a time period that didn't have social media to raise awareness what else are you left to do other than fight back for your freedom? How come many tamils had to flee to many western countries but not the sinhalese? We had no choice we were chased from the country on which we arrived as the first race with opening arms towards the sinhalese and the discrimination that we faced was attrocious. "people are all happy" is an understatement. Still to this day there is driscrimination and hatred towards tamils. Ofc not all sinhalese are guilty but please if you want to talk about happiness and peace at least consider what tamils have gone through and think of human rights not just tamil rights.
Ask from jaffana originated tamilian who made them human bomb suicider. during the war period you guys were away from sri lanka. LTTE violated all the war regulations even they did not obey red cross advices and did large number of massacre by showing their brutally behavior. However LTTE stoled huge number of innocent tamil children and adult precious lif, not only that caused so much causalities to srilankan unarmed innocent people. But sri lankan army implemented huminity operation and had not discriminative attitude towards any of races and asissted each nation. In the present time each nations live peacefully together. Whereas tamilnadu guys want to cause disrupt however between tamil and sinhalese. This ambition doesn't come true ever. Further come to sri lanka and ask from srilanka tamil people how government military cooperated them during war decade.
When I started my career I met a very cool middle aged woman. I was replacing her deck. They spent all day smoking cigarettes inside the garage. Her teeth were yellow but she was very beautiful. She had the demeanor of a woman with ties to a Mafia. She had a sense of humour. She dressed like a man, but with women's clothes. She spoke so calm, even when she was smiling with you. I took a long time on the job, but I never saw her angry. Even when we were making terms of the contract termination she at most stressed one or two words and it was never a competition to speak. I was so sad when I left that job.. I wonder where she is now
@@Therealtuxedo nah u mad, because u can't accept that your whole worldview is based on lies. Jaffna was 50% Sinhalese before the war? Tigers killed 160 Tamil MPs? Are there even 160 Tamil MPs 😂
As someone who is also an academic how are you making a factual video that is false. Have you never done a literature review. There are so many more credible journalism videos such as from channel 4. Further there are still issues going on in the country. They stood up for is when no one did and when the sri lankan country massacred us simply for being better in some cases. Look at the different entry requirements between tamils and sinhalese for education. They stopped that. If you lived in a society like that you would not even be where you are. Imagine your university requirement being different based on race. Please do more research especially when your work carries weight
@@ashelythas7017 In the spirit of a debate I want to point out a few things, this was one of many things. Keep in mind a huge list of policies, laws , actions and other behaviour by specific SL gov parties and others that did not distinguish between those who are receiving unfair treatments among tamils. The accusation of not researching is also clearly wrong; the killing of tamils did not distinguish between LTTE and innocents, nor did it distinguish between high caste low caster or adults and children. Everyone was killed. Moving further both Sinhalese and tamils were kidnapped and to this day are missing and probably dead. This war was funded on a debt and loan which is now destroying our beautiful country and being given to china. You are telling me that all of this is because of a high caste low caste issue? Even now with the LTTE gone, have these acts stopped? Destruction of heritage of the country, which includes both Tamil and Sinhalese history is being altered and destroyed. Temples, monuments, history is being destroyed. Is this because of caste? Inhumane levels of pesticide is being used to damage future generations, that must also be because of caste right? The country is facing unprecedented issues and many of it arose due to this war. This was not due to caste but hate and jealousy. It really is time it ended and a new better country emerged, or else we will be arguing over how to contribute better to a new china instead of our country.
@@ashelythas7017 @Vihll Sun Putting all differences aside, I loved reading both of your comments. You very rarely see healthy productive and insightful discourse on this matter. I agree with a lot of what both of you said. The state of affairs in Sri Lanka would be in a different place if we had you two, and voices more like yours in parliament. Kudos to both of you for great points. Perspectives like your need to grow in the hearts of both Sinhalese and Tamils. How can we connect? I’d love to chat.
Welcome. You are correct. Tamils and Sinhalese share 76.5 percent of their genes. But your rulers are genetically unrelated to both the communities. The ruling class rathella of both UNP and SLFP are madurai nayaks with telugu lineage. Would they allow any other sinhalese to share power?
Sir you did not mention Why Indian government trained Prabakaran & his men against Sinhalese government. In NY ker weekly, the writer said it is due to Sri Lanka government want to lease TRICOMALY port to USA, INDIRA - the PM of INDIA do not want it.
@alex rothman there is a lot of misinformation in your video. Could you please provide some credible references? If this hasn’t been done intentionally, I assume it is because the original source to your information obtained was produced by the Sri Lankan government. Most mainstream material available on the LTTE was provided by the Sri Lanka government. This was part of their diplomatic strategy to delegitimise the Tamil freedom struggle and to perceive the right to self determination as apolitical by providing false narratives and false facts. I request you to further research into why the war started and how the same mistakes are ongoing. Your video is adding fuel to the chauvinistic nationalism of the radical Sinhalese. Please look into figures such as Anagarika Darmapala and how he united the Sinhalese by turning them against Tamils. The Mahavmasa mindset he instilled is still present as you will see in this comment section. Also Tamil key figures such as Chelvanayakam conducted peaceful non-violence ‘satyagraha’ protests for many years following national independence to which the state and the Sinhalese often responded with violence. After 30 years of repeated killing of the Tamils the 1983 war broke out by the LTTE. Similar tension is now happening completely perpetuated by the SL government. If you do research into the LTTE please differentiate any information amongst other militant groups who are often also codified under the term ‘rebels or tigers’ this includes EPDP and alike there were 37+ orgs. The SL state often ties the atrocities with the LTTE as well as the Tamil’s plight to aid their mission in delegitimising the cause. Please do not align yourself with perpetrators such as the Rajapaksas, Ranil W and many others by joining their agenda. The blood shed will not wash off your hands. Thank you
Dude stop being but hurt over this he reported what’s out there you can’t blame him for that furthermore darmapala he made a video on him already and also the Sinhalese suffered and the Tamils suffered as well the tigers murdered innocent people you can’t sit here and act like they didn’t same with the Sri Lankan government and also hate speech was conducted by Tamil politicians as well so both sides have to take blame what happened sucked and should’ve never happened but 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
Alex is expert on finding true resources and analizing them. He has done these kind of series more. I aknowleged that there was a problem of underatting the tamils in sri lanka. It is still happend. As a sinhalese I can See it. But the Sri lanka is a democratic country. Always there is an opportunity to talk against any issue. There are tamil politician elected by people. They get and got chances to talk against. Still there May be some issues. But it is democratic. You should not build an extra army like Tigers to bring country back. Sonhalese or tamils, all these south asian nations are still not well civilized. I mean they dont understand their rights and rights of others. It will happend slowly with education and economic growth. Let it happend soo. Not killing each other for miner matters.
Here' are the statistics: The Sri Lankan army murdered 150,000 innocent Tamils(1983-2009) The IPKF murdered 8200 innocent Tamils(1987-1990) The LTTE murdered 4100 innocent Sinhalese and Muslims(1983-2009) But somehow the LTTE are the terrorists? The real terrorists are the Sinhalese extremists and government who forced Tamils to take up arms after decades of cultural genocide and institutionalized segregation. Canada recently sanctioned the Rajapaksa brothers for the Tamil genocide and recently passed Tamil Genocide Education Week to teach students about the genocide in schools in the province of Ontario. The courts upheld it too after Sinhalese groups challenged it. Justin Trudeau also passed a unanimous motion that recognized May 18th as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day.
well Canada helped LTTE .in many ways during the war to be honest. and those numbers you mentioned was not even real😂. I am actually very sad because people who had never even seen the war are try to make LTTE the good people . LTTE killed whole tamil families in jaffna ,trinco and batti if at least one of their family members didnt join LTTE. so if you consider LTTE members as civilians then you might be correct .
Im singhala and i my wife is tamil. They are wonderfull peoples ❤️❤️ i love them from full of my heart. ❤️ In sri lanka no problem between peoples. Pitics make problems. No need stupid war again.
I lived in sri lanka all my life!!am 42 yers old!!i know & witnessed what happened. Tamil tinges were terrorists.(thats why they were banned in many countries)they were always planning attacks from and among civilians. (garilla techniques)by doing that they used the civilians as a shield. and use the civilian casualties to bad mouth S.L army. of Couse sri lanka is the mother land of singhalese. yet every one was living peacefully. war was planted by the external forces. (prabakaran played the Villon's character. only he didn't know how the story ended.) just that country held back from its economic growth due to this. whole of india, south east asia grabed all our opportunities during that 30 yers. now they are all ahead of us. Every body needs a piece of sri lnka given its geo political location. best way do it is to paralyze the country by triggering internal conflicts, promote corruption via greedy politicians) now we are a bankrupt country. now those vultures can have a piece of this.
@@ashelythas7017 Are you not shamed to talk about caste in this 2 century? It was an ethnic war. Why do you bring caste here? This youtuber is an idiot who wants to earn money and misleading the history. What are you doing here? Very cheap
99% of the civilians that died in the war are innocent Tamil civilians in the hands of Sri Lankan military and government. Get your fact right. 1/4 of the Tamil population from SL is living abroad. This is a poorly researched video.
@@autoworld871 didn't massacre civilians lmao. Largest disappearances in the world after Iraq, and over 100,000 Tamils unaccounted for in 2009 alone. Massacre after massacre since the 80s. Even Alex admits this at the end of the video.
Indira Gandhi and RAW's paramilitary to destroy Sri Lanka. Comparing to toiletless dirty India, Sri Lanka was very much economically and socially developed nation in 60s and 70s
As a Sikh, I feel so sorry for the Tamil community of Sri Lanka. Both communities have suffered unspeakable horrors. I guess thats the price for being a minority in that part of the world
@@HotGammiris I'm not saying innocent Sinhalese didn't die during the conflict. However, in that part of the world, it is quite common for a religious majority to subject a minority to all sorts of atrocities and then expect them to take the humiliation lying down. Sometimes my friend, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. IMo, the South Asian world needs to be more mature
Finally a man like you understands the pain and agony of our Tamil people. This is like justice for my people😭. I am indebted to you. Thank you very much😭🙏🙏
You must be paid by the Srilankan government. Why did you pick up Sri Lanka? Go find another job. Tamil Tigers are not the enemy of the State of Israel.
Real freedom fighter for Tamil people ..❤ everyone should understand we are not terrorist we are freedom fighter .. If we had our own country we would be one of the best countries in the world.. world powerful country doesn’t like it ..
Killing innocents in the most brutal way doesn't make anyone freedom fighters. World doesn't accept it. That's why men like you are blacklisted as terrorists by 33 countries. BTW why don't you start the war in india for your so called homeland?
@@usernameis9157 north Korea more then good compare with Sri Lanka .. Sri Lanka has corruption everywhere from top to bottom...did you forget everything , why did you protest against the government.. do you have a meal to eat when protesting time..don't see your living surroundings only .
What? You think NK is better than sri lanka Lol, I have tamil friend who are now my class mates in my university( 3 from jaffna and 2 from batti) tamils get free education, free healthcare. Even with economic and other stupid politics People still can protest or stand up against the goverment, meanwhille ltte killed anybody(tamil or muslims) who didn't obey them and prabha was military dictator 😂😂😂
Great historical analysis and account of the civil war. It was a scary time indeed with attacks expected at any time. (occasionally I was not far away!). There were very few foreigners about... Was glad when the government finally won the war. Never knew how many died on both sides. Thanks for the info. Btw your research on Srilanka and the quality of your videos is stunning. Well done. I no longer own a house in srilanka and now live in France. There's strife here too....
Sri Lankan government must of paid you a good chunk to do a video like this. Shame on you to do this video without knowing the history. My blood is boiling. You should stop spreading false information about Tamils and LTTE. Tamil 🇨🇦
CORRECTION: At 3:41 I say that half the population of Jaffna had been Sinhalese. This is incorrect. On looking back at my sources I found this from Gordon Weiss: "Prior to the rise of the Tamil Tigers, around 10 per cent of the population of Jaffna had been Sinhalese who had peacefully coexisted with their neighbours for generations". Other sources (e.g. Wikipedia) put the number lower than that. I've tried to put in a correction card on the video itself but it hasn't worked. My apologies and thank you to those people who pointed this out.
Secondly, there are many comments on this video accusing me of bias. While of course it is impossible to be completely neutral, and on such a sensitive issue it is probably inevitable that many people think I have a bias one way or another, the one thing I would point out is that this video is meant to be watched as part of a series. Of course this video focuses on the LTTE and what they did, and spends comparatively less time on the actions of the Sri Lankan army. That is because in the next few videos I will be focusing on the other combatant in this conflict. After that I will, no doubt, get accusations coming from the other side.
Ultimately, I hope, I will have achieved some sort of balance and, I must say, I still stand by almost all of the information presented so far in this series (with the exception of the correction above).
Gordon Weiss statistic is also completely wrong, likely got from hear say. Census data is clear, for most of the 19th and 20th century the area was 99% Tamil speaking:
www.np.gov.lk/pdf/Statistical-Inofrmation-2010.pdf
The other statistic that is wildly wrong in this video is the claim that LTTE killed 160 Tamil members of parliament. There has not been the deaths of so many Tamil MPs due to murder full stop, irrespective of perpetrator.
These are some critiques given by another user:
There are many downright false and misleading information in your video, which seems to be biased in favour of the Sinhalese/government side.
1) Prabhakaran wasn’t born in a “low caste” but middle.
2) You say over 160 Tamil MPs were killed by the LTTE. could you cite a scholarly literature for this claim that doesn’t ultimately originate from government or other biased Sinhalese sources?
3) You briefly mention the Black July but severely downplay its significance, while you expand upon far less significant LTTE attacks. It was a state-sponsored genocidal pogrom against Tamil civilians, killing thousands, and displacing many more. It was this that led to the exponential growth of the LTTE from a handful of youths.
4) You mention the November 1984 LTTE massacre of civilians (at Kent and Dollar Farm) but what you omit is that these were convicts and their families settled on land seized from Tamils after expelling its occupants. These convicts and their prison guards would abduct and gang rape Tamils from neighbouring villages and harass them into leaving the area, which, understandably, provoked retaliation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_and_Dollar_Farm_massacres
Multiple massacres of Tamil civilians by government forces had taken place from 1983 onwards prior to the LTTE's first targeting of civilians.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces
5) You say that before the rise of the LTTE, half of the Jaffna population had been Sinhalese, but a quick look at government’s own census will tell you that in 1971 Sinhalese made up only 2.9% of the population and for a long time before that it was close to 0%. You clearly haven’t done your research but are only parroting claims from shady sources.
6) You rationalize SL army atrocities by saying it’s “understandable” why they would behave like that given the circumstances but you don’t qualify LTTE atrocities in the same way but instead you detail them without any context. clearly shows your bias. For example, what triggered the Anuradhapura massacre was this massacre carried out in Prabhakaran's home town:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Valvettiturai_massacre
7) You list several atrocities attributed to the LTTE but you manage to mention only one SL Army massacre of Tamil civilians, that too tucked away toward the end where an average viewer probably wouldn’t get to and qualifying it as a “retaliation”.
The scale of atrocities by government forces against Tamils far outnumbers the crimes committed by the LTTE and there is complete impunity for these crimes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_against_Tamils_in_Sri_Lanka
8) Most Tamils in diaspora donated voluntarily, not due to any threat as you make it out to be based on selective cases.
9) You indiscriminately implicate “Tamils” as a whole, without any qualification, in drug trafficking, which is racist, considering only a fringe section of street gangs and other criminal elements were involved in it and even the US government admitted it wasn’t sure of LTTE’s involvement in it.
@@sltruth317 As he got exposed and all his real intentions of whitewashing the Sinhala military and criminalising the Tamils legitimate struggle for independence became crystal clear, he began creating a fake drama like he was correcting his own mistakes. This guy is so cunning!
@@ashelythas7017 (1) There was a disproportionate amount of Dalit cadres towards the end of the war, but how does that make it a Dalit movement? what kind of illogic is that. Prabhakaran - Karaiyar, Pottu Amman - Vellalar, Tamilselvan - Dalit. The organisation was not formed around caste, but around Tamil nationalism. Btw unless you have access to the LTTE's member caste % then all these claims are based on conjecture, not solid statistics.
(2) Spamming a bunch of massacres against Muslims after 1990 does not mean anything. The situation changed then. As Ameer Ali a Muslim scholar from Kattankudy himself said in the article I sent you:
"the LTTE, which is militarily by far the strongest and financially the wealthiest of the Tamil organizations, made several attempts to incorporate the Muslim community into its movement by demonstrating to the Muslims the hidden dangers of Sinhals Buddhist chauvinism and the need for joint action to arrest it. One should not dismiss these early efforts of the LTTE as a simple propaganda stunt to win Muslim support. Their arguments were based on sound analyses of Sri Lanka's post-independence development model whose benefits have been particularly discriminatory towards the minorities. The think-tank of the LTTE showed with facts and figures how the Muslims have lost their agricultural lands through government colonization schemes and how they have lost their commercial and trading interests through communally biased commercial policies of the state. In fact the district development of the sixties and seventies hit the Muslims harder economically than the other communities. A number of Muslim youth thus became convinced of Tamil militant ideology and joined the LTTE's military wing. In several Muslim villages and towns the LTTE opened its branch offices and was gradually gaining popularity amongst certain sections of the Muslim community."
@@ashelythas7017 ok stop throwing strawman arguments and taking the argument on a tangent. Your original erroneous point was that the LTTE never cared for Indian origin Tamils and Tamil Muslims. That has now been disproven. They were very open to the Muslims at the beginning. But it did not last as the majority of Muslims refused to identify with the Tamils and Tamil Eelam. I am not denying any of the atrocities the LTTE later did to Muslims.
நாம் சிங்களவராக இருந்தாலும் சரி, தமிழராக இருந்தாலும் சரி, நாம் அனைவரும் மனிதர்கள். நாங்கள் போரை விரும்பவில்லை. எங்களுக்கு ஜாதி வேற்றுமை வேண்டாம், மத பேதம் வேண்டாம்.
இதற்கெல்லாம் ஆரம்பம், அரசியல் விளையாடுபவர்கள், தேசிய நோக்கத்திற்காக வாக்குகளைப் பெறுவதற்கு, நாட்டின் ஒட்டுமொத்த சமூகத்திற்கும் கொடுத்த தவறான உதாரணம். நாம் சிந்தித்து, அவர்களின் தவறுகளை புத்திசாலித்தனமாகப் பார்த்து, இது போன்ற போர் இனி நடக்காமல் இருக்க ஒற்றுமையாக இருக்க வேண்டும் என்று நம் இதயத்தில் எடுத்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டும்.
இந்த நாடு நம் அனைவருக்கும் சொந்தமானது. சிங்கள, தமிழ், முஸ்லிம் மற்றும் கத்தோலிக்க நாடு. நாம் அனைவரும் மனிதர்கள். நாங்கள் சண்டையிட்டு பிரிந்து செல்ல விரும்பவில்லை. யுத்தம், பொருளாதாரப் பின்னடைவு, அப்பாவிப் பொது மக்களின் குழந்தைகள் அகால மரணம் என எதைப் பெற்றோம். அந்த அரசியல்வாதிகளின் பிள்ளைகள் போருக்குச் செல்லவில்லை. எங்களைப் போன்ற சாதாரண தமிழர்கள் மற்றும் சிங்கள மக்களின் பிள்ளைகள் கொல்லப்பட்டனர். இந்த வீடியோவை பார்த்து வெறுப்பை அடைய வேண்டாம். இந்த விஷயங்களை மீண்டும் வேண்டாம் என்று புத்திசாலித்தனமாக வேலை செய்யுங்கள். மதப்படி வேலை செய்யுங்கள்.
நான் சிங்களவன். ஆனால் எனக்கு தமிழ் நண்பர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள். நாங்கள் ஒன்றாக சாப்பிடுகிறோம், ஒரே படுக்கையில் தூங்குகிறோம், ஒன்றாக பயணம் செய்கிறோம். எங்களிடம் தமிழ் அன்பர்கள் உள்ளனர், தமிழ் நண்பர்களுக்கு சிங்கள காதலர்கள் உள்ளனர். உங்களால் நேசிக்க முடிந்தால், ஏன் போர்? இலங்கை இராணுவம் மற்றும் விடுதலைப் புலிகள் இருபுறமும் எங்களுடைய சொந்த மக்களைக் கொண்டிருந்தனர். போர் முடிந்துவிட்டது. மீண்டும் போரை முடிவுக்கு கொண்டு வர மத, இனவாதத்தை தூண்டாமல், அரசியலில் ஏமாறாமல் பாடுபடுவோம்
Are you absolutely sure? *Rig Veda 1.103.3* “With His thunderbolt, He destroyed the cities of the Dasyus, and strengthened the Ārya.”
*Rig Veda 3.34.9* "Indra possessed the Sun, Horses, Cow. He struck the Dasyus, and protected the Ārya tribe."
*Rig Veda 4.16.13* “You have subjugated Pipru and the mighty Mṛgayā for the sake of Ṛjiṣvan, the son of Vidathin; you have slain the fifty thousand Kṛṣṇas; and, as old age (destroys) life, you have demolished the cities.”
*Rig Veda. 8.87.6* "Thou, Indra, art the destroyer of all the cities, the slayer of the Dasyus, the prosperer of man, the lord of the sky."
As a sri lankan who moved to Australia, i will tell you that while i may not have much understanding on the diplomatic and political environment of this war, as many people seem to call out misinformation and have different stories, that this is the problem with 3rd world and second world countries. The political figures can take advantage of the people and start meaningless conflicts for their own benefits. Neither the sri lankans nor the tamils benefitted from the war and deaths were caused for no reason other than to line the pockets or ego of some corrupt politician.
agreed brother i have the same opinion
Exactly. Economically speaking it was a defeat for all the Sri Lankans. Politicians benefited really really.. By stabilising power and finance
same thing happens with richer countries too, propaganda is used by every faction,especially USA,Russia or China...even covid-19 was basically a heavily propagandized global event and with all the internet we still don't know what really happened, there was no reason to put the whole world into lockdown
100% correct and also a MOSAAD officer in his book WAY OF DECEPTION tells how Israel was training and arming both LTTE and SRI LANKAN ARMY at the same time and made money. His job was to see that both LTTE party and Sri Lankan commando party do not come in contact with each other at any hotel or training centre and Israel's game plan gets exposed.
Look like a propaganda sponsored by the SL gov.
Respect sri lanka 🇱🇰 army ❤I love my mother sri lanka 🇱🇰❤️
Cowards
In 1981 Jaffna Library was burnt by the government forces. In this planned attack nearly 100000 Tamil books were burnt ashes. In July 1983 more than 4000 Tamils were massacred and all of their assets worth millions of dollars were burnt and looted by thugs backed by then president JR Jayawardene in Colombo. More than 60 Tamil prisoners were killed in Colombo prisons by the government in this planned attack by the government. Alex failed to mention these incidents.
check his previous video. this is a series
The black lions of Sri Lanka devoured the tigers🙏🇱🇰
100'000+ War criminals vs 10'000 Heroes
😂 tamils are brave and smart people 🐅🐅🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
@@cameronpillay8050tamils are the greatest race saaar
@@aum-nama-sivaya 10000 pussy cats
@@cameronpillay8050 Tamils are a great an honorable race. As Sinhalese we have nothing but respect for them. Thennn we have Sakilli separatists buggers lyk u 😂😂😂 thats another story
You missed the part where Indian government trained, armed and sponsored Tamil militants back in the 80's. Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) set up 32 training camps all over India to train 6 Sri Lankan Tamil insurgent groups.
He explained that in a previous video. This is part of a series.
You are absolutely right
And also that india send it's army to fight them and so many around 1400 soldier are killed and india also provide intelligance help and why they train them because they want America out it's not actually india who give them training it's USSR using india
For their own benifit to keep Tamils as dogs with bad intention but not really supporting us.
Moreover other countries asked for support from India but our Leader Prabhakaran asked only training from the India although they were ready to support us. Tiger 💪🏼
Don’t spread lies. The Sinhalese didn’t make up 50% of the Jaffna population before the Tigers emerged. According to official 1971 census by the government, Sinhalese only made up 2.9% of the population, while Tamils 95.5%. See the demographics section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_District…
Please correct your misinformation.
It was full of lies and he didn't know much knowledge about the war. some of them are made up story in his video.
Your link is broken. It should be: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_District
It is our land regardless, you thieves.
I’m sorry if this person’s statistics are wrong, let’s not worry on the inaccurate reasons, and go to sleep tonight thinking about all the lives that were taken in this shit show (from Booth sides)
@@Man-of-Steel674 veddas were the first people on the island, and Tamils have legal deeds for their land which they have lived on since time immemorial. You think the native Aboriginal hunter gatherers of the island did not lose land when civilised man arrived from northern India. Even the Mahavamsa story says they were chased away into the mountains. It is hypocrisy to accuse others of stealing, when ones origin myth admits the same.
I'm reading The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and couldn't understand any references to the civil war, didn't understand the ideologies and perspectives of the sides, which led me to this series. I am so grateful. Being a Nepali, I was shamefully clueless about the sri lankan history but now I feel much more capable of understanding the context and situation. Love this series. So well made. Thank you so much Alex.
There was never a time in history where the population in Jaffna was 50% Sinhalese. You are spreading false and fake news. Also your claim that the demand for a Homeland came from the Tigers is also false. It was a democratic mandate and that mandate is still high. Tamils had their own kingdom which was even recognized by the colonial rulers. Eelam Tamils have a right to self-determination. You are whitewashing the whole genocide of the Tamils and why they even started to fight in the first place.
If you want self-determination, then declare war and we will blow your hokey pokey Eelam to kingdom come. You were invaders in a Sinhalese land that came to steal, Sinhala kings were kind enough to let you live after defeating you including Mahinda and now you want independence, up yours. If you wanna live peacefully, live peacefully or die. When is the last time Sinhalese came to harass you after the war, yeah that's right 0. but how many times I've seen you act racist, every time I see one of you. Don't test our patience, this a not warning but a threat.
100 percent correct 👌
@@Man-of-Steel674 under that primitive logic you are InVaDeRs in a vedda land. Jaffna kingdom area was out of Sinhala rule for the last 700 years. You can't ignore the centuries of separate history that Tamils had in the island.
@@sltruth317 I don't, it's just that land is ours and if try to partition our country, it's murdering time.
@@Man-of-Steel674 Chinese are making you their slaves. Your mothers and sisters are going to be sex slaves to the Chinese soon🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
உன்னைப்போன்ற தலைவனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற வீரனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற தேசப்பற்றாளனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற நேர்மையாளனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற ஒழுக்க சீலனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற சிந்தனையாளனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற அர்பணிப்பாளனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற மனிதநேயனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற யோக்கியனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற பண்பாளனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற செயல் வீரனை
உன்னைப்போன்ற தியாகியை
உன்னைப்போல் தமிழை நேசித்தவனை
உன்னைப்போல் தமிழரை நேசித்த தலைவனை
இனி எழுதப்படப்போகும்
எந்த வரலாறும்
தரிசிக்க போவதில்லை.
இது மட்டும் உறுதி❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕
lol indian raw trained prabhakaran
😂😂😂
Nice but some group see him as a hero but most of srilankan see him as a ruthless terrorists. That kills civilians and trying to take land that not belongs to ltte.
I choose to live and I chosed to help others to live. Essence.
Too many brainwashed😢in service of wealthy rulers.
Where did you get this figure of 160 Tamil members of parliament killed by tigers??? It's completely false.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think he got funded by the sri Lankan government
Those terrorists start the killing list with the prominent Tamil politician A. Amirthalingam's assassination.
Can anybody justify it? Google yourself.
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@@chathurasanjeewaperera8930 pukkai 🤣🤣
What is the root cause of the Tamil struggle for freedom? To gain a better understanding, we need to examine both sides of the story since independence from British colonial rule in the 1950s. In particular, we should explore the events surrounding the Black July riots in 1983. The government's perspective is not the only one, and it's essential to speak with local Tamils who have witnessed the true atrocities committed by Buddhist extremists. It's crucial to avoid bias and acknowledge the genuine pain and suffering that Tamils have endured, and continue to face today. In the north-east region, there is currently one army personnel for every five civilians. Tamils have demanded peace and equal rights since the end of British colonization, but these basic rights have been denied. Government forces have committed horrific crimes, including rape and massacres, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. As a result, Tamil women have taken up arms and joined the Tigers to retaliate. For them, it is better to die fighting for freedom than to suffer rape and murder at the hands of the ruthless Buddhist forces.
Black July Riots of 1983 happens because LTTE killes 13 army soldiers. If Tigers didn't ambush those soldiers riots will never happen
Ltte did the same thing to sinhala and muslim civilians ltte did hundreds of suside attacks around sri lanka and killed thousand of sri lanka civilians also ltte destroyed sinhala and muslim village and killed civilians to can't u remember that? Where is sinhala and muslim village that was been in north and east side answer is ltte killed that all civilians in .1983 riot start becaz ltte killed our 12 soldiers useing c4s.ltte start at 1975 in that time they active like pistol gang and they kill civilians and did couple of bank robbery thats how they expand there organization=ltte sinhalese people endured from 1975 to 1983 what ltte did but not after our soldiers get killed by ltte thats how riot get started ltte also did massacre/genocide ltte use there own tamil ppl like a human shield at 2009 our army rescued more than 300k tamil civilians from ltte in that situation didn't u remember it and now there is leftover ltte members who worked for sri lanka government u can see them if you watch WENASA youtube channel also your ltte former leaders families also still live sri lanka safely
@@usernameis9157 The problem started with since the 1948 Ceylon Citizenship Act where a sizable Malaiyaha Tamils were disenfranchised by D.S. Senanayaka government. Then Sinhala Only Act No 33. of 1956 during SWRD's time and later pogroms initiated against Tamils in late 1950s. Language issue is the heart of this problem which was exacerbated through the Standardization Act in the 1970s by Sirimavo government where merit based university entrace was changed to a quota system limiting minority representation in government services and science. It is the continued marginalization that pushed some to resort to armed conflict. Tamil politicians are also to be blamed as well. However, most acts implemented were populist moves by then governments. Further, Tigers is an organization that is not representative of the Tamil civilian. In that case, projecting hate on a community because of the atrocities committed by a terror group is not right. Even if you forget about the Sri Lankan Tamil, the issues faced by Indian Tamils are still not addressed. They largely remain a stateless group with limited opportunities to upward social mobility. While the video provides good insight to the rebel group and their brutality, I would expect the producer to make a distinction between the rebels and the civilians and how marginalization of minority civilians occurred since independence from the Brits who are also directly responsible for the plight we are all in at present.
Oh here's a terrorist propagandist.
@Mailman There are many Indians who were brought to countries such as Guyana, Trinidad, Ceylon, Mauritius, Fiji, Malaysia, and others. These individuals currently reside peacefully and hold first citizen status in most places, except for Ceylon (also known as China-loan) at present. It seems unnecessary to send back Indians who were brought to the island centuries ago by the British, particularly considering their crucial role in the production of Ceylon tea. They are the backbone of this industry.
How much this guy got it from Sri Lankan government?so much misleading and incorrect information
tamil tigers were best saaar . they are good saaar . you are spreading propaganda saar 🤡
tiger cub spotted
50% Jaffna population is Sinhalese? 😂😂😂 This explains the amount of knowledge you have on this topic.
15%
Recent statisstics put it more around 98 percent, in jaffna, with the population percentage in the overall country as 75 percent. Theres a reason that the main people in turkey are the turkish, and in Mexico are Mexicans, same as how in sri lanka the main people are the sinhalese
90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was
Brought here by portuguese , dutch , british to costal aria to work as slave workers time to time from india, for various slave purposes (before they were lower cast tamils in india , sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers then immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from sound india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon
people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were alway fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils
Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by
Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐
30 years of civil war was created by british , dutch and portuguese colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese.
He actually corrects it underneath
Not even 1 %
Lmao so many peelam refugees crying in the comments.😂😂
Yr mother's shitalese po3s😊
@@cameronpillay8050 උබේ අම්මට ප්රබා අරියාද Anna ? 🤦😉
@@ranabimemathakayan3068 amboo 😂😂😂
@@ranabimemathakayan3068yr shitalese mother's po3s 😊 cant u read cuck shitalese ☺️
Bro hands down one of the best documentaries regarding the topic I’ve enjoyed watching after journeyman documentaries . Everything from narration , editing and the video shots you took were great and respect for visiting Sri Lanka . 🫡
In response, you say the army killed civilians. But that is not accurate. The Army were massacring Tamil civilians well before the Tigers starting targeting civilians from 1984 onwards:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces
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@@chathurasanjeewaperera8930 are you mental ? In 2008-2009 the Sinhala army committed so many war crimes.
Those terrorists start the killing list with the prominent Tamil politician A. Amirthalingam's assassination.
Can anybody justify it?
haha very funny . LTTE even used hundreds of Tamil civilians even as human shields and SL army had great difficulties and great losses when trying to save those innocent people. so if they wanna just massacr them why would they even care saving them? most of the facts about ltte doesn't show its true face . ltte soldiers were brain washed and in most of the battles front lines were occupied by teens with no experience in battle . anyway if you ask ever ask a person who lived in northern or eastern sides of sri lanka ,they are one of the people who are most happy due to the SL governments victory. The only people who are supporting and saying good things about prabakaran and ltte are the some what wealthy people who fled to Canada and other European countries during the war. anyway when prabakaran was captured he couldn't even come out of his hiding place to surrender, instead he sent his kid with a white flag (the kid was very young at that time probably less than 10).
@@dulithagoonatillake2947 sinhalese pedophiles are always looking to rape children, look at what happened in Haiti
Then make a vid “who are the SL army” and state the massacres ,, this is soooo one sided
Dude stop tryna be bias here he’s literally condemning both sides and is gonna make a second video to this series.
It's not "ssooooo" one sided. What gives the Tamil "Tigers" the right to kill innocent and slaughter innocent people including children?? They massacred innocent people just because they were a different race/religion. They killed innocent Sinhalese,innocent Buddhists,Muslims etc. They attacked civilians and places of worship. They used suicide b@mbrs. How is that differen t to isis terrorists??? How can you kill small kids and just murder people in cold blood who havent done anything wrong to you?
Even if Tamils were persecuted and attacked they should fight/attack the people hurting then,not kill and slaughter innocent civilians especially little children. There's no justification for that,no excuse for atrocities. That's just evil. Those are exactly the same terrorist tactics, in fact it was the Tamil Tigers who invented suicide missions.
Now look what happened to the Tamil "tigers?" You believe in Karma, so all the evil killing of innocent people's resulted in many more Tamils getting killed, even today they still suffering due to the war and the Tamil "tigers "are destroyed, it's leaders all dead, the organization no longer exists as a military force or political group. Karma,right? Isn't that poetic justice? For shooting murdering lots of innocent people and shooting their kids like the massacres and attacks on villages and other people's religious places.
It's funny how you complaining of massacred Tamils yet the Tamil" Tigers" when they had power they showed no mercy to innocent people who weren't Tamils and forced even young Tamil kids to fight for them.
How can you defend those actions? They slaughtered innocent people even kids. Can you shoot or stab a small infant child?
That's what they did. Many times.
You say innocent Tamils killed yet the tigers did the exact same evil horrific crimes of ethnic cleansing. War crimes and terrorism. Where did it get them? The tigers still lost the war badly. They believe in Karma,they got what they deserved.
Anybody who supports them is supporting a terrorist organization,what they did is the definition of terrorism,unjust violence against innocents for political,racial, religious motives. The evidence of their many cold blooded sadistic crimes is plenty, it's truth based on facts, it's not a,lie or propaganda,the Tamil "tigers" really did mass murder innocent civilians including women and children. They used child soldiers too. They were a despicable organization. Slaughtering many people families,littlw innocent children with their families who didn't do anything wrong but just because they were different race or religion the Tamil cowards attacked them. How is that right in your perverted mind ? It's hypocrisy.
Who started first?
If there was no discrimination against tamils then no civil war happened
@@A-lh3ym it wasn’t about discrimination towards you don’t understand cause the British prior used divide and conquer to use us.
He literally said that Sri Lankan army killed more than Tamil Tigers 🤦♂️
You do realise during the war period Tigers wore as normal people during the war to accuse Sri Lankan Army killing innocent tail people.
🇱🇰💪❤️🔥I Always respect my mother
Your mother's poes 👧🤡🤣
Then why did u let ur mother be a slave to china?
@@InqulabZindabadyour india did alot worst than what china did to us..
F unde amma wesighe putha 😂😂😂😂 ponnaya farsi Aryan balla 🇱🇰💩🤮🤢
SRI LANKA ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE ❤
Shitalese 🤮🤡🔫
The forces are efficiently begging for rice :P
@@changeteller91 indian army? 😂
if you don't know the history please dont do that..go study please.
This is true.
This is true
So much misleading information in this video. When was Jaffna ever 50% Sinhalese?? Don’t make videos with incorrect information. This is so disappointing.
He explained a correction about that point in a comment if you look on this video
it is betwenn 15% to 10%
Yes this video provide incorrect information and this channel's owner could be a LTTE supporter.
@@groundzero5708 No, there is no such amount of Sinhala lived in Jaffna. Check your Sinhala racist government census.
යාපනයේ සිංහල මිනිසුන් 23% සිටිති
Though I am hindu but do not support these terrorist and they were not even hindus their leaders were Christian. I support Sinhalese people due to same Aryan bloodline
Aryan in yr mother's po3s
Hey ask your aryan simhalese how they were bullied for 30 years by a simple force of peasants and also ask your martial races of sikhs what happened to 1,00,000 inidian ipkf who were send to disarm ltte. They will tell you what ltte was . You guys are big joke and got ruled by mughals and all other people who came we dravidians of south india are unique and dont mess with us and i am not a srilankan tamil but a malayali speaking for my dravidian brothers.
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From Iraqi Kurdistan my greetings to our Tamil brothers and sisters
for what?
For what ?
They are Terrorist kill many innocent civilians.
why
For your struggles for being a live , for your freedom fight
Wow, this is the most comprehensive analysis on the Sri Lankan history post independence I have seen. I really enjoyed the series, and hope all Sri Lankans growing up watch this and understand our country's past. May we understand the importance of peacefulness and treat each other with respect , at least from now on. I hope and pray for economic growth, peacefulness and stability! My compliments to you!
Sri lanka economic never ever grow ..bcoz sinhalese lick china shoe 😂😂😂
They started it, not us🤷
வஞ்சத்தால் மட்டுமே வீழ்ந்தோம்
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@@cameronpillay8050 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@srilankaarmylove💩🇱🇰🤢🤮
@@iniyanprabhakaran 😆
The tigers were the ones between Tamils being landless like rohinya and a state for Tamils ,, ALL the rights Tamils have now were gotten by those guns ,,, those terrorists were peace keepers compared to the genocider army of SL state that killed 200,000 Tamils for its self interests
Most of the Tamils were brought to Jaffna by the Duch East India Company to cultivate tobacco. Thanks to the British help they write you a fack history book which your fack history book"Yalpana Vaipava Malai" . There is no archeological evidence about Tamil's existence beyond 500 years.Elam was an ancient civilization which located todays Iran before 3000 .Couldn't LTTE find a Tamil name for your country instead of Iran name?Separate your Tamil country from India.
@@shashediri544 lol. Yaalpaana vaipava malai was written during the Dutch period NOT British period, and it records centuries of historical memories, so your claim of Tamils mainly migrating during Dutch period is a just a lie meant to demean Tamils and deny them their rights as native citizens.
@Shash Ediri didnt the sinhalese migrate to Eelam and find Tamils there and rape and pillage their way while trying to own the island?
LOL looks like the truth is hard to bear for some men. Now even make ideologies.
@@shashediri544 Tamils brought to Jaffna to cultivate tobacco belong to upper caste SL. Sl Tamil existence around 2nd BCE.
It's important to conduct thorough research before creating content, especially when discussing sensitive and complex issues such as the formation of the Tamil Tigers. It's worth acknowledging that the conflict in Sri Lanka involved atrocities committed by both sides, and the United Nations was denied access to investigate these crimes against humanity. If the Sri Lankan government is truly committed to justice and transparency, they should allow the international community to visit and assess the situation in affected areas. There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the fate of hundreds of innocent men and women who were forcibly taken from their families for questioning and never returned. It's essential to seek answers and accountability for these cases, and if the missing persons are still alive, their cases should be pursued and addressed. Let's approach these sensitive issues with respect and a commitment to seeking the truth, rather than resorting to baseless accusations and blame.
At the end of the day no matter how you come down to it both the tigers and the government did wrong. tigers murdered civilians on busses murdered innocent Muslims etc. and the Sri Lankan government murdered thousands of innocent Tamils what’s done is done. the Sri Lankan government did the same thing in the JVP insurrections. where they murdered innocent Sinhalese people the government has committed atrocities but 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
@@dannygzz9286 India massacred 20,000 Tamils from 1987-1990
@@iniyanprabhakaran and the Sri Lankan government murdered close to 60,000 people during the JVP insurrections what’s your point ? I know the Indian government did the same thing to Tamils as well.
You do realise the flower in your profile picture is the national flag of LTTE during war!
@imethbandara3743 of course, it's the national flower of Tamil eelam.
Tamil tigers is a army of the tamil nation.
I will support Sri Lankan government at all cost kindly they deserve to protect their country than been rebelled
You can make a similar story for Bangladesh as it has a diverse history from it's origins, to the British occupation to independence until now, there is a lot to cover 🇧🇩 🇧🇩 🇧🇩
West Bengal and Manipur.
It's a Sh*thole anyway
You mean creation of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971, since prior to that it was called east Pakistan and before that India.
Could you kindly provide evidence to support your claim that 50% of Jaffna's population was made up of Sinhalese? Regarding the expulsion of Muslims from the area, some argue that it was due to their perceived disloyalty to both Tamils and extremist Sinhalese. However, it's important to recognize that this is a complex and controversial issue rather than spreading harmful and divisive rhetoric based on false information.
Before the war there were lot of Sinhalese lived in Jaffna because Jaffna was one of the major city in Sri Lanka. Despite the sinhala government servants working in Jaffna, Jaffna was the economic hub for unemployed Sinhala youth in the south. In the beginning of the war there were considerable amount of Sinhalese lived settled and lived peacefully there. Prabhakaran always wanted to create this notion "Jaffna is only for Tamils" as result of that under LTTE rule larger amount of Sinhalese evacuated from Jaffna peninsula. At the end last two Sinhala men who worked in a bakery shop in Jaffna were tighten to an electric pole and burned alive in 1992 by LTTE
@Mailman 💯💯💯💯🧡
The LTTE did not stand up for the Tamils. They just used the Tamil people for their terrorism.
Why another state of Eelam when the Tamil people have Tamil Nadu? Why are they dividing this beautiful island? All that is only for the narrow goals of the terrorists. Sri Lanka expects the brotherhood of all Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims
@@dilstory8267 Go and see for yourself in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Buddhist extremists are destroying Tamil sacred temples and constructing Buddhist temples in their place. Several private lands have been taken over by the Sinhalese forces, but they are yet to be returned. If Tamils were granted self-determination and equal rights, then why does the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) exist? If Tamils were treated with equality, why would they send their children to join the Tigers? Even educated and high-ranking Tamil populations were compelled to join the freedom struggle of the LTTE due to the oppressive actions of the Sinhalese, which had a detrimental impact on the minority community. If it were not for the brutality of Sinhalese chauvinism, there would be no need for the LTTE or the separate state of Eelam.
@Mailman manimekalai does not mention the word Sinhala once..it says Nagas. You don't know what you are talking about, read the actual source rather than listen to second hand information
Saying they are not real soldiers and learn to fight by watching films is laughable. They were highly trained by Indian Army in the 80s.
These are really great videos, Alex. Super informative and excellent production! Keep making these! A series on Cyprus would be great!
Cheers mate! Got a new one coming then I've wrapped the series. Then onto the next series from this past summer. Hope you're doing well back there and the family is happy and healthy!
@@AlexRothman Don't do any videos on Sri Lankan Tamil and their freedom fight with your zero knowledge for your own benefit.
I feel sorry for people like you to believe all the wrong and false information this guy published in this video
I love how this part of history is now playing out in Europe and 1000x bigger
Why not you talk about war crime against Tamil civilians,some story you are lied,you need read history of Ceylon,you don’t know Eelam means in Tamil ? Mean is gold,that’s why every one trying control Sri Lanka , who ?
And white van🚐
He’s on government’s payroll to promote tourism. That’s why he’s biased and making up lies like Jaffna being 50% Sinhalese before LTTE.
@@samsonz0 is it because this time LTTE painted as bad guys by this journalist..?
There are two sides and this is one side..
Don't think only tamils are right..
Read the title of the video ... This is an one video of the SL series
Please remove the "tamil" part from the thumbnail. Tamils are not terrorists. Put ltte or something.
as a Sinhalese guy I completely agree
Ltte stands for that, and some tamils still fight for separate homeland politically. They don't feel Sri Lankan as of yet as their politicians drilled the separate homeland concept after the British left.
I’m sorry if you are offended but I don’t think there is any suggestion in the thumbnail that Tamils, as a group, are terrorists. Of course they aren’t! But the internationally accepted name for the LTTE is the Tamil Tigers and far fewer people know the LTTE so that’s the name I went with, and I think that’s defensible. I want to also be clear that I have no bias in either direction between the Tamils and Sinhalese and, in fact, in my travels found both groups to be wonderful. I hope you will watch the video and afterwards please feel free to share if you think I’ve gotten anything wrong
@@AlexRothman Alex your doc is well-balanced and based on facts.. well done
@@AlexRothman No Alex you have done a wonderful job. But what I mean is, calling ltte as tamil tigers might portrait an unclear view as every tamil fought for ltte. But it is not what happened. Ethnic tamils like admiral Sinniah, Ranjan Kadiragamar was on the top of the list of the anti ltte campaign. So now you say a blacklisted terror organization by 33 countries have been manned by Sri Lankan tamils? Every tamil? Even Sri Lanka's most honored men like admiral sinniah?
Really happy to see someone producing quality content about the subcontinent's history.
❤ From Bangladesh🇧🇩
Sri lanka went through a period of war yes a hard time, innocent tamil, muslims and innocent Sinhalese died because of the LTTE who started the war with suicide bombers.
Sinhalese people didn't ask for war, but they ended the war once for all.
My country is now in peace with all races.! BTW I'm a Sinhalese tamil. 🇱🇰
Sinhalese politicians started the war with Black July riots and it was the Army of Sri Lanka who ended it.
didn’t know the ltte were behind black july in 1983. you are an embarrassment to tamil people everywhere
Well take away the Tamil from your identity cause clearly you don’t deserve it
Also, all of us, Sinhalese and Tamil, are thankful to the Sri Lanka Army for creating an environment if we can live in peace again. We love the Sri Lankan Army 🥺❤️🇱🇰
Fukin lies
Good joke,white van 🚐 war criminals against Tamil civilians , UN👁️
War criminals what peace for Tamils ? You live in your own lalaland.
War criminal sri lankan army
😂Sin army is evil 🤡💩
Hey Alex. I’m a Sri Lankan. I enjoy your videos very much. Don’t factor these negative comments into your thing. Just do your work/art good and keep rocking as always. Love from SL. ❤❤. Looking forward to your next episode of the series 😮
Tiger will come
Sinhalese army are scared
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@@musicheals1665 ? is that supposed to be some kind of threat lmao
@@musicheals1665You think that we Sri Lankan Lions are afraid of you Tamil Tigers?
Dude what happened to your murdering Boss Prabakaran? 😂😂😂
We will give our lives to protect Sri Lanka from anyone who is trying to harm Sri Lankans or divide Sri Lanka...
@@musicheals1665Tamil Tigers are Clowns... Go Cry LOL... poor buggers 🤮🤮🤮
Fvck around and find out 🇱🇰🦅🔥
30 years later 😂 even tho your shitalese make up over 70% of the population 🤭 thats embarrassing 🤡
SL government was like: Run up get'done by a sidewinder bi*** and it was epic!
@@ppwithaweewee9403 what? I don't understand. Can u explain?
30 years later 😂and the Elam Tamils are only 13 % of shitlanka 🤭
You are spreading fake news " All 14 guerrillas were killed, along with six Sri Lankan air force personnel and one soldier killed by friendly fire. Twelve soldiers were injured, along with three Sri Lankan civilians and a Russian engineer. No tourists were harmed during the attack. " Aircraft destroyed:
1 Mi-17 attack helicopter,
1 Mi-24 attack helicopter,
3 K-8 jet trainers,
2 Kfir fighter jets,
1 MiG-27 fighter jet,
2 Airbus A330s,
1 Airbus A320,
1 Airbus A340
Aircraft damaged:
5 K-8 jet trainers,
5 Kfir fighter jets,
1 MiG-27 fighter jet,
1 Airbus A340,
1 Airbus A320
1 other military aircraft "
Tamil people always fight for justice
oh yea thats why Jaffna tamils dont respect trinco tamils who dont respect Batticoloa tamils and all hate up country tamils. If you want a homeland Tamil Nadu is right there
Thank you God the diminishing the evil past ,we all suffered equally. Sri Lanka long live in peace ❤❤❤
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Nice joke 😂
Never blessed Sinhala Government
Of Srilanka
We fought for our self defense and safety
From the killing and white van Kidnapping and sexually tortured our Tamil womens by hands of inhuman Sinhala government terrorist
A lot of misinformation in this video particularly about the fact that there were 50% Sinhalese living in Jaffna before the war - this is just to further boost the Mahavamsa mindset and Sinhala nationalism. This misinformation is probably part of Ranil W’s brainwashing campaign.
90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was
Brought here by portuguese , dutch , english to costal aria to work as slave workers after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese and immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from sound india ) became registar general changed those indian tamils
Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by
Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐
thank you for let the world know about sri lanka and Sinhalese.
Shitalese 😊
@@cameronpillay8050 සක්කිල්ය got his feelings hurt ??😂😂
ponna demala@@cameronpillay8050
@up yr shitalese po3s 😊thegreenskull4244
srilanka army.. 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰❤❤❤❤❤❤
Is they army begging for rice in the street too with their fellow Sinhaloids?
Tamil Tigers!Army🔥most deadliest warrior's❤️🔥in the world!
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@arsalannasheeds I said Sinhalese racist soldiers not tamil Spartans!🙃
ltte really f**ked around and found out.Now stop crying it's over@@AnbuAnbu-et1lj
Tamil tigers😂😂😂
rotting in the groud somewhere
Tamil African , I believe one day Justice and Equality and Free Eelam will be attained
Jaffna was 50% sinhalese, what 😂😂 what a joke. Who paid you to say that.
It was so, then the Tamils from India occupied it and drove out the Sinhalese
@@nishipr I guess it was thr Lord Buddha of the Sinhalese who killed king Ravana. LoL.
@@x96x67 After a long time, the original owners were the Sinhalese, they were 1st, then the Tamils who fled from India stayed there, and then they organized and tried to carve that part out of the country, killing innocent people and committing barbaric acts.
@@aum-nama-sivaya what?? You seem to have no knowledge of Sri Lankan history, so I think it's worst for me to talk to someone like you
It's not like a lot sinhalese lived there.... most of the shop owners(bakeries specially) were ran by sinhalese before the war in jaffna..
Tamil tigers hero ❤❤❤
ultimately lost like pi==
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doesn't exist anymore
Fallen heroes 😂😂
The conflict can be traced back to the post-colonial period when the British left Sri Lanka, and the Sinhalese majority gained political power. The government implemented policies that favored the Sinhalese population, such as making Sinhala the only official language and promoting Buddhism as the state religion. This led to the marginalization of the Tamil minority, who were primarily Hindu and spoke Tamil.
The Tamil minority began to demand equal rights, autonomy, and the recognition of their language and culture. However, their peaceful protests were met with violence,
How much do you get paid for the comment?
It was the problem..the sinhala only act..
But now it's different..most of the people(speacially the young generation)don't care about this war thing..i am one of those young people..i didn't have any idea about what all this conflict about..now I do cuz of these kind of commenting..not only here but everywhere I go..(specially on social meadia)
I have tamil friends too and I know it can be same with some tamils..but this kind of things,fighting could break our relationship..that is not good..in south there tamils too(mostly indian tamils)..but they live with other ethnic people with no problems..the people who were part of the past generations(war time) put those terrible thoughts in to young peoples mind..let's stop that..young people know only studying well is the way..
Just think how selfish some Eelam supporters..look how most of them say that they need their justice..but the only reson why they are trying to get their justice is to win an Eelam..
War is over..most of who faced the war lost things they cared for they loved for.. we can't change the past but the future.. the only solution to this issue is uniting together..that is the only way we can make both sided happy..
@@wolves2529 keep dreaming. It seems unlikely that you'll be able to live in peace and harmony, my friend. The presence of corrupt politicians, particularly those who wear orange robes and incite hatred among Buddhists while claiming Sri Lanka to be the land of Buddha, is likely to prevent that. Unfortunately, it appears that Sri Lanka is on a downward spiral towards chaos, and things may get even worse in the future
@@autoworld871 2£ per comment
@@wolves2529 let’s forget there are no two sides, only Sri Lankans?
It’s the fastest approach I believe
மாவீரன் பிரபாகரன்🔥
This madness took away sooo many lives.. people killing people. I'm glad its over and people are all happy. War must never happen again. Its time to make ploughs of the swords and build a unified prosperous Sri Lanka. God bless us one Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
You really chosing to listen to a white mans words where he is saying false statements. Please Learn your history. The War started because of the Sri lankan Governement and their discrimination towards Tamils. We were treated like the less superior race, stripped away from our rights. When this happens to your people in a time period that didn't have social media to raise awareness what else are you left to do other than fight back for your freedom? How come many tamils had to flee to many western countries but not the sinhalese? We had no choice we were chased from the country on which we arrived as the first race with opening arms towards the sinhalese and the discrimination that we faced was attrocious. "people are all happy" is an understatement. Still to this day there is driscrimination and hatred towards tamils. Ofc not all sinhalese are guilty but please if you want to talk about happiness and peace at least consider what tamils have gone through and think of human rights not just tamil rights.
What kind of documentary is this? Who paid you to create this?
He is neither Sinhala or Tamil. Why are you assuming anyone paid? Because it doesn't resonate with your agenda or opinion?
Glad the war is over and now all Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher are united living together in peace 🇱🇰
Karma proves the opposite of that . More like living in a bankrupt cesspool caused by racist illiterate Sinhalese
It’s hard to think about peace when Tamils never had justice for the war crimes made by the government.
@@cameronpillay8050 yes tamils were very litterate never wanted to educate sinhalese lmao
Without any basic rights 😢
Ask from jaffana originated tamilian who made them human bomb suicider. during the war period you guys were away from sri lanka. LTTE violated all the war regulations even they did not obey red cross advices and did large number of massacre by showing their brutally behavior. However LTTE stoled huge number of innocent tamil children and adult precious lif, not only that caused so much causalities to srilankan unarmed innocent people. But sri lankan army implemented huminity operation and had not discriminative attitude towards any of races and asissted each nation. In the present time each nations live peacefully together.
Whereas tamilnadu guys want to cause disrupt however between tamil and sinhalese. This ambition doesn't come true ever.
Further come to sri lanka and ask from srilanka tamil people how government military cooperated them during war decade.
When I started my career I met a very cool middle aged woman. I was replacing her deck. They spent all day smoking cigarettes inside the garage. Her teeth were yellow but she was very beautiful. She had the demeanor of a woman with ties to a Mafia. She had a sense of humour. She dressed like a man, but with women's clothes. She spoke so calm, even when she was smiling with you. I took a long time on the job, but I never saw her angry. Even when we were making terms of the contract termination she at most stressed one or two words and it was never a competition to speak. I was so sad when I left that job.. I wonder where she is now
There is a lot of misinformation in this video
your just mad cause he exposed the truth
@@Therealtuxedo nah u mad, because u can't accept that your whole worldview is based on lies. Jaffna was 50% Sinhalese before the war? Tigers killed 160 Tamil MPs? Are there even 160 Tamil MPs 😂
@@sltruth317 wannabe Nazi...
@@sltruth317lol bs
@@rubeeno8055 lol look at eelam ltte ideaology . seprate history seprate land it kinda like you more like a nazi but dravidian
i wish pro palestinian's would watch this and understand somethings..
Study history of Sri Lanka before you release a video
I am srilankan Tamil & sympathizer of Tamil tiggers
I have spent millions of millions dollars & time
We never ever did bank robbery
As someone who is also an academic how are you making a factual video that is false. Have you never done a literature review. There are so many more credible journalism videos such as from channel 4. Further there are still issues going on in the country. They stood up for is when no one did and when the sri lankan country massacred us simply for being better in some cases. Look at the different entry requirements between tamils and sinhalese for education. They stopped that. If you lived in a society like that you would not even be where you are. Imagine your university requirement being different based on race.
Please do more research especially when your work carries weight
@@ashelythas7017 In the spirit of a debate I want to point out a few things, this was one of many things. Keep in mind a huge list of policies, laws , actions and other behaviour by specific SL gov parties and others that did not distinguish between those who are receiving unfair treatments among tamils. The accusation of not researching is also clearly wrong; the killing of tamils did not distinguish between LTTE and innocents, nor did it distinguish between high caste low caster or adults and children. Everyone was killed. Moving further both Sinhalese and tamils were kidnapped and to this day are missing and probably dead. This war was funded on a debt and loan which is now destroying our beautiful country and being given to china. You are telling me that all of this is because of a high caste low caste issue?
Even now with the LTTE gone, have these acts stopped? Destruction of heritage of the country, which includes both Tamil and Sinhalese history is being altered and destroyed. Temples, monuments, history is being destroyed. Is this because of caste? Inhumane levels of pesticide is being used to damage future generations, that must also be because of caste right?
The country is facing unprecedented issues and many of it arose due to this war. This was not due to caste but hate and jealousy. It really is time it ended and a new better country emerged, or else we will be arguing over how to contribute better to a new china instead of our country.
@@ashelythas7017 @Vihll Sun Putting all differences aside, I loved reading both of your comments. You very rarely see healthy productive and insightful discourse on this matter. I agree with a lot of what both of you said. The state of affairs in Sri Lanka would be in a different place if we had you two, and voices more like yours in parliament. Kudos to both of you for great points. Perspectives like your need to grow in the hearts of both Sinhalese and Tamils. How can we connect? I’d love to chat.
We always respect Sri Lankan tri forces ❤❤❤💐💐💐💐🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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@@rubeeno8055 Prabakaran punde dead headshot 😂😂😂 💩
@@කාවින්දවිජේසිංහ yeah and? Atleast we had a leader... where is rajapaksa 🤣... you had to beg for food from tamil nadu 🤣
@@rubeeno8055so where is the leader now ? He is dead bro 😂💔 dead in the mud without clothes so cry about it 😂😂😂
Keep in mind that we (Sinhalese) and Lankan Tamils are generally and genetically very cosley related, and both follow Dharmic religions.
Welcome. You are correct. Tamils and Sinhalese share 76.5 percent of their genes. But your rulers are genetically unrelated to both the communities. The ruling class rathella of both UNP and SLFP are madurai nayaks with telugu lineage. Would they allow any other sinhalese to share power?
Sir you did not mention Why Indian government trained Prabakaran & his men against Sinhalese government.
In NY ker weekly, the writer said it is due to Sri Lanka government want to lease TRICOMALY port to USA, INDIRA - the PM of INDIA do not want it.
Please help joining us in Dravida Nadu
He talked briefly about it in his previous video.
@alex rothman there is a lot of misinformation in your video. Could you please provide some credible references? If this hasn’t been done intentionally, I assume it is because the original source to your information obtained was produced by the Sri Lankan government. Most mainstream material available on the LTTE was provided by the Sri Lanka government. This was part of their diplomatic strategy to delegitimise the Tamil freedom struggle and to perceive the right to self determination as apolitical by providing false narratives and false facts.
I request you to further research into why the war started and how the same mistakes are ongoing. Your video is adding fuel to the chauvinistic nationalism of the radical Sinhalese.
Please look into figures such as Anagarika Darmapala and how he united the Sinhalese by turning them against Tamils. The Mahavmasa mindset he instilled is still present as you will see in this comment section. Also Tamil key figures such as Chelvanayakam conducted peaceful non-violence ‘satyagraha’ protests for many years following national independence to which the state and the Sinhalese often responded with violence. After 30 years of repeated killing of the Tamils the 1983 war broke out by the LTTE. Similar tension is now happening completely perpetuated by the SL government. If you do research into the LTTE please differentiate any information amongst other militant groups who are often also codified under the term ‘rebels or tigers’ this includes EPDP and alike there were 37+ orgs. The SL state often ties the atrocities with the LTTE as well as the Tamil’s plight to aid their mission in delegitimising the cause.
Please do not align yourself with perpetrators such as the Rajapaksas, Ranil W and many others by joining their agenda. The blood shed will not wash off your hands. Thank you
Dude stop being but hurt over this he reported what’s out there you can’t blame him for that furthermore darmapala he made a video on him already and also the Sinhalese suffered and the Tamils suffered as well the tigers murdered innocent people you can’t sit here and act like they didn’t same with the Sri Lankan government and also hate speech was conducted by Tamil politicians as well so both sides have to take blame what happened sucked and should’ve never happened but 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
Alex is expert on finding true resources and analizing them. He has done these kind of series more.
I aknowleged that there was a problem of underatting the tamils in sri lanka. It is still happend. As a sinhalese I can See it. But the Sri lanka is a democratic country. Always there is an opportunity to talk against any issue. There are tamil politician elected by people. They get and got chances to talk against. Still there May be some issues. But it is democratic. You should not build an extra army like Tigers to bring country back. Sonhalese or tamils, all these south asian nations are still not well civilized. I mean they dont understand their rights and rights of others. It will happend slowly with education and economic growth. Let it happend soo. Not killing each other for miner matters.
May God bless and protect Sri Lanka 🇱🇰✝️
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@@rubeeno8055Tamil Tigers are Clowns... Poor Buggers 🤮🤮
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@@iniyanprabhakaran altleast it cow poo , tamil hindus
Here' are the statistics:
The Sri Lankan army murdered 150,000 innocent Tamils(1983-2009)
The IPKF murdered 8200 innocent Tamils(1987-1990)
The LTTE murdered 4100 innocent Sinhalese and Muslims(1983-2009)
But somehow the LTTE are the terrorists? The real terrorists are the Sinhalese extremists and government who forced Tamils to take up arms after decades of cultural genocide and institutionalized segregation.
Canada recently sanctioned the Rajapaksa brothers for the Tamil genocide and recently passed Tamil Genocide Education Week to teach students about the genocide in schools in the province of Ontario. The courts upheld it too after Sinhalese groups challenged it. Justin Trudeau also passed a unanimous motion that recognized May 18th as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day.
Those terrorists start the killing list with the prominent Tamil politician A. Amirthalingam's assassination.
So can you justify it?
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well Canada helped LTTE .in many ways during the war to be honest. and those numbers you mentioned was not even real😂. I am actually very sad because people who had never even seen the war are try to make LTTE the good people . LTTE killed whole tamil families in jaffna ,trinco and batti if at least one of their family members didnt join LTTE. so if you consider LTTE members as civilians then you might be correct .
@@dulithagoonatillake2947 Canada helped LTTE by banning them and cracking down on their fundraising??
@@samsonz0 lol canada helped to recognize ltte genocide by srilankan army . bcz ltte wore civilian outfits for cover
Im singhala and i my wife is tamil. They are wonderfull peoples ❤️❤️ i love them from full of my heart. ❤️
In sri lanka no problem between peoples. Pitics make problems. No need stupid war again.
I lived in sri lanka all my life!!am 42 yers old!!i know & witnessed what happened. Tamil tinges were terrorists.(thats why they were banned in many countries)they were always planning attacks from and among civilians. (garilla techniques)by doing that they used the civilians as a shield. and use the civilian casualties to bad mouth S.L army. of Couse sri lanka is the mother land of singhalese. yet every one was living peacefully. war was planted by the external forces. (prabakaran played the Villon's character. only he didn't know how the story ended.) just that country held back from its economic growth due to this. whole of india, south east asia grabed all our opportunities during that 30 yers. now they are all ahead of us.
Every body needs a piece of sri lnka given its geo political location. best way do it is to paralyze the country by triggering internal conflicts, promote corruption via greedy politicians) now we are a bankrupt country. now those vultures can have a piece of this.
True ☹️
What's Tamil tinges 😂
Did external forces bring sinhala only act? Did external forces do anti tamil pogroms from 1948-1983??? Stop blaberring
never ever give for tamil tigers in srilanka..from sri lankan 🇱🇰 ❤️
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Definitely bro❤️🔥💪🇱🇰
Nice, but you give for China.
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@@ashelythas7017 Are you not shamed to talk about caste in this 2 century? It was an ethnic war. Why do you bring caste here? This youtuber is an idiot who wants to earn money and misleading the history. What are you doing here? Very cheap
Whoa! Tamil Tigers were brutal and well organized. 😮
99% of the civilians that died in the war are innocent Tamil civilians in the hands of Sri Lankan military and government. Get your fact right. 1/4 of the Tamil population from SL is living abroad. This is a poorly researched video.
Tamils are very wealthy people they just don’t have their wealth on hand today but all of that is in the making
Bullshit . All thry for as refugees in western countries.
Alex Rothman deserves far more views than he's getting for the quality of his videos.
Maybe if u could read the pinned comment u would know he corrected it
Tamil tigers my favourite velupillai Prabhakaran
🇱🇰 One country , one nation ( Sinhala+Tamil +Muslim+Chinese+ others)❤
not muslim
Chinese WTF? You really take those fu$$ing indian media propaganda 😂
Chinese ! 😂
@@imethd90 why
@@mrlaco9656 we have srilankan chinese are you under a rock
Lot of wrong information. Please do not mislead.
What are the wrong information😅
@@autoworld871 wrong population statistics for jaffna, wrong chronology of events, wrong number of Tamil politicians killed by LTTE etc etc
@@sltruth317 it is 15% to 10%
Funny, a brave SL army man who jumps in with grenades in tiger tank is a hero ,,; and the same from tiger side is terrorism
What is the deference between the army soldier & ltte cadre? Army soldiers didn't wear suicide vests and massacred innocents.
@@autoworld871 sl army were raping women and children in my parents villages. Now you’re going to say I’m a liar and believe in fake ltte propaganda 😒
@@autoworld871 didn't massacre civilians lmao. Largest disappearances in the world after Iraq, and over 100,000 Tamils unaccounted for in 2009 alone. Massacre after massacre since the 80s. Even Alex admits this at the end of the video.
yeah hasalaka gamini he is a hero
@@user-ge7mj7jt1u ltte killed mssacred sinhala villagers who lived near ltte borders in north and east
Why you didn't talk about May 18? Nearly 1 lacks tamils got killed by srilankan army?
Question.
Who were the Tamil tigers?
Answer.
The pets of India.
Indira Gandhi and RAW's paramilitary to destroy Sri Lanka. Comparing to toiletless dirty India, Sri Lanka was very much economically and socially developed nation in 60s and 70s
question: who were the singalese military?
answer: blood thirsty dogs
@@Lol-ud8cs 💯 I'm with you Tiger🐅🫡🫡
@@Lol-ud8cs question; who is this Lol ud8cs ?
Answer; One of foolish man
This is a one sided video in favour of Sri Lanka.
Sinhalese in this comments be like: Oh woow thats soo neutral. Its nice to see the other side.🤡
They had an Air Force too.
crash landing one even with runaway
@@groundzero5708at least they created themselves 😂 does SL know how to fly a one I heart they hired contract killllers for this
As a Sikh, I feel so sorry for the Tamil community of Sri Lanka. Both communities have suffered unspeakable horrors. I guess thats the price for being a minority in that part of the world
Come and see Sri Lanka, didn't you ever feel sorry for Sinhala people?
@@HotGammiris I'm not saying innocent Sinhalese didn't die during the conflict. However, in that part of the world, it is quite common for a religious majority to subject a minority to all sorts of atrocities and then expect them to take the humiliation lying down. Sometimes my friend, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. IMo, the South Asian world needs to be more mature
Thank you for the truth 🙏
the truth of your soldiers raping? the truth of your army pushing un out so they can gather tamil civilians into hospitals & bombing them?
Lol😂 propaganda video agaist Tamils rights for equal in Srilanka. Half baked knowledge about history topics on Asia.
Lotta Tumil Tiger sympathisers doing damage control in these comments lol
Finally a man like you understands the pain and agony of our Tamil people. This is like justice for my people😭. I am indebted to you. Thank you very much😭🙏🙏
You must be paid by the Srilankan government. Why did you pick up Sri Lanka? Go find another job. Tamil Tigers are not the enemy of the State of Israel.
Yep this must be propaganda
These mf’s never knew the real truth
Even our indian army never reveal the real truth
Tf you😂 there's no place for terrorists in the world
False information get your facts rights
Real freedom fighter for Tamil people ..❤ everyone should understand we are not terrorist we are freedom fighter .. If we had our own country we would be one of the best countries in the world.. world powerful country doesn’t like it ..
Killing innocents in the most brutal way doesn't make anyone freedom fighters. World doesn't accept it. That's why men like you are blacklisted as terrorists by 33 countries.
BTW why don't you start the war in india for your so called homeland?
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Yeah... probably a country like North Korea🇰🇵
@@usernameis9157 north Korea more then good compare with Sri Lanka .. Sri Lanka has corruption everywhere from top to bottom...did you forget everything , why did you protest against the government.. do you have a meal to eat when protesting time..don't see your living surroundings only .
What? You think NK is better than sri lanka
Lol, I have tamil friend who are now my class mates in my university( 3 from jaffna and 2 from batti) tamils get free education, free healthcare. Even with economic and other stupid politics People still can protest or stand up against the goverment, meanwhille ltte killed anybody(tamil or muslims) who didn't obey them and prabha was military dictator
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Great historical analysis and account of the civil war. It was a scary time indeed with attacks expected at any time. (occasionally I was not far away!). There were very few foreigners about... Was glad when the government finally won the war. Never knew how many died on both sides. Thanks for the info. Btw your research on Srilanka and the quality of your videos is stunning. Well done. I no longer own a house in srilanka and now live in France. There's strife here too....
Eagerly waiting for the next video ❤️🙏🏽
தமிழரின் தாகம் தமிழீழத் தாயகம்
Its now Sri Lankans,not Elam's homeland .😂
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@Mr Wonder We do need it. Our Periyar even warned us about joining India
Sri Lankan government must of paid you a good chunk to do a video like this. Shame on you to do this video without knowing the history. My blood is boiling. You should stop spreading false information about Tamils and LTTE. Tamil 🇨🇦