Sri lankans, both tamil and sinhalese are some of the most traumatised people in the world, each and every person above 25 years has had some experience related to the war. Thier was a tsunami and a Jvp insurrection. Yet Sri lankans still manage to be one of the most welcoming and friendly people, they will go out of their way to help a stranger in need. They have this rare ability to smile and forget even after facing unbelievable horrors.
As a Sri Lankan I truly applaud you for putting the effort to make and share this country and it’s history as a Tamil my parents lived through the war and migrated to England, I am often called Indian as this country isn’t that recognised so I thank you!
@@firstconsul001 Incorrect, Sinhalese first came to Sri Lanka as migrants from Orissa. Balangoda people are the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka, who are direct ancestors of the Veddas.
Your correct. The sinhalese came from west bengal and odisha. Hapolotypical analysis shows their clear preserved ancestry to northern indian. This is not to disregard their genetic components shared with the west inidians. Espically the Kalingas. When the sinhalese came, its known they exterminted the original inhabitants, the yakkahs. @@alchemyst6893
I never say I am Sinhalese; I say I am Sri Lankan. I don't want to teach my children Sinhala or Tamil. I want them to study in English because that's how I earn most of my income.
teach them sinhala (or Tamil if you're mother tongue is that). They will feel like an outcast if they live in Sri Lanka. Plus, it's cool to know 2 languages.
@@zerbutterftw You're absolutely right-teaching Sinhala or Tamil is essential, especially if it's your mother tongue. It helps people feel connected and at home in Sri Lanka. Plus, knowing two languages is an amazing skill! Until 1956, English was our official language, but it changed, and now Sinhala and Tamil are the official languages. However, if you know English, you can communicate globally, do freelancing, and work with big companies. I work for an Australian company, and if I didn't know English, they would never have given me the job because communication is the main skill companies look for. If in 1956 Sinhala and Tamil had not become the official languages, English might still be our native language (Sri Lanka). I hope everyone who reads this comment will improve their English day by day and make their life happier than yesterday. I don't like Sinhala, but I really love English. My dream is to improve my English every day, and yes, I can.
The Sinhalese and the Tamils lived peacefully until the British government used divide and rule tactics which lodged a wedge between the two communities, they did the same in Malaysia between the Malays and the Chinese, and in India between the Hindus and the Muslims, in Africa too.
Buddhists vs muslims in srilanka and Myanmar Jews vs muslims in isreal Christains vs muslims in Europe,Nigeria ,Hindus vs muslims in IndiaYajidis vs muslims in Iraq
Organized violence is as old as dirt. Religion, ethnicity, race, class, caste, clan, tribe and whatever the fuck. Pre colonial Sri Lanka was not very peaceful. There were many invasions from South India. How do you think the tamils got to North Sri Lanka in the first place? It was also never a unified country before British rule, and the states were at war with each other more often than not. Doesn't excuse Britain of taking over half the globe but this narrative that the world was a peaceful place prior to European colonialism is crazy 😂
I deny it But you will also have to admit Prabhakaran was a terrorist Can you? Using poor people (mostly children) against a army full of heavy weapons ? Isn't that worth considering? Tamils mothers lost their children because once they were forcefully taken to Ltte, they will die by the hands of SL army... So he can play the victim card Tamils knew what Prabhakaran's ideology was... You gotta understand that I know the reason for this is Black July (Responsible man is the former president and his government) But It doesnt justify Ltte works
Your video series about Sri Lanka is seriously underrated. The production quality and the amount of effort you must have put into these videos are crazy. These videos are timeless and I love the way how it's sequenced.
This video, even not saying, went to went the problem was started. Sinhala Only Act 1956. Tamil Tiger started 1976 Tamil University student not accept. He started to fight at age 16. And sri lanka 99% of people don’t know why the war begin.
As Sri Lankans, We should not get divided as Sinhalese,Tamils,Muslims or etc..What we need is peace. Not a war. Past is past & lets be careful, not to given any chance to anyone who would use us for their personal propagandas.
Your series on recent Sri Lankan history is phenomenal. My mum is Sri Lankan and a lot of her work involves documenting the voices of civil war survivors from all sides. Watching your content has given me a new depth of insight and appreciation into what she does. Thank you!
@@dachu3122010 the Sinhala Only Act, 🔥 burning of Jaffna Library 📚, Black July 1983 etc were all created by the Sinhalese people and Buddhist Monks. Karma, Karma!!! The Lion 🦁 is begging for forex n petrol ⛽️
This guy have created an utterly biased video on someone elses civil war. What is he gaining by SENASATIONALISING wars to gain views and recognition? Clikcbait
First off, there wasn’t a civil war it was all about terrorist and a country’s army. If it’s civil war why the hell USA and Europe banned LTTE as terrorist group. There are more tamil living in south part of the country with majority Sinhala population without an issue but Sinahala people aren’t allowed to live in north then you called it civil war? Even tamil people clash each other for their own cast so tamils leaving north to south to seek freedom. hope it cleared now!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. But you didn’t mention how many bombs were blasted in urban area as well in rural area during this period. There were so many casualties. Even they have killed farmers and their families. This is the two sides of the same coin. We can’t justify only one party was lesser brutal than the other. So it’s better to do your travel around the Sri Lanka without giving your thoughts and feelings regarding this cvil war. This will escalate the tension between the Tamil and Sinhalese again. We are now living in peace
Still many innocent Sinhala people think that they won again Tamil people but honestly they have done a sin to them. I have no idea how much they are going to suffer inreturns. Thank you so much for speaking up the truth Alex 🙏🏽💖. #peace live and let live
Was there for 2 weeks around 2018. I only visited mostly the south and the center. I really enjoyed Sri Lanka, people were nice and helpful. I would love to go back again and this time I would definitely want to visit the north and east side of the country
These "country portaits" are really great, keep them up. I especially enjoy your historic narrating Interrupted by acute "travel scenes". It makes all so much more tangible, especially as you portray countries often forgotten in the Western mind.
I am surprised that you always try to show that the Sri Lankan army is bad. First of all, the Sri Lankan army went to war to provide a peaceful Sri Lanka for all religions including the Tamils and Sinhalese. Moreover, the Sri Lankan army carried out the world largest humanitarian operation in the world by freeing more than 30000 the Tamils from the LTTE that who used them as a human war barrier by lTTE. .if theres a family the mother and father used separate transport because No one knows when a bomb will explode.. another more to tell. All these did by LTTE terrorist organisation. Not the tamil people. tamil peoples also wanted to end this terrorism. people in sri lanka don't wanted to devide. all these happend for the politician's needs. also people don't like to introduce themselves as a tamil or sinhalese.they would like to introduce them as a sri lankans. sri lankans only want to live in peace with all religions.
Tamils and Sinhalese did not suffer equally. Equating the suffering of Sinhalese to Tamils would be like equating the suffering of Hutus to Tutsis during the Rwandan Civil War. Tamils were overwhelmingly the victims during the conflict and 99% of Tamil victims were killed by the tri-forces and state sponsored paramilitaries and extremist groups. 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.
Source: Trust me, bro. (SL Army rescued 386 hostages including 157 children, 98 women, and 137 men(Tamil)." There is no safety zone anymore, they (LTTE cadres) are putting bombs and traps on all possible escape routes available for us. They fire machine guns, throw hand grenades, and even fire mortars at people whenever they feel that people are organizing to escape", a Tamil youth has said. )
Been waiting a long time for this and you did not disappoint. I would love for you to conclude this series by discussing whether reconciliation could ever be achieved and if so what that would look like. Given the brutality of the war that took place and the sheer scale of the loss of life which occurred it would be good to discuss where the country could go from here. As always thank you for this series! Glad I discovered this gem of a channel.
Thank you so much for shining light on the history of Sri Lanka, and our issues. Even Sri Lankans don’t care this much to learn or talk about this. Keep up the good work bro!
@@sachds3333 Who told you? Any proof rather than propaganda fake news? Ukrainian army doesn't kill civilians like LTTE did. How you compare a terror organization with a professional army? Are you a terrorist sympathizer?
@user-dr2sh2pe8mIf the past is forgotten, it is doomed to repeat again. Best thing is to understand the whole thing and to makesure nothing like that to happen again.
Thanks again for this. Your content deserves way more views, especially among the younger generation in Sri Lanka. I haven't seen any other documentary that gives a balanced view of both sides like you have done here, usually it's one side or the other that's portrayed for whatever agenda.
This is a factually inaccura bunch of lies with semi truths. 😂Tamils who joined the LTTe is considered as scum by most Tamils in Jaffna they are almost segregated .😂😂😂
"The leading resistance group of Sri Lanka's Tamils were called the Tamil Tigers, or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. They were nimble, fanatical, and absolutely ruthless in slaughtering civilians, both Tamils and Sinhalese!" this statement proves that everything he says is not a balanced view of both sides.
As much as I respect this man for shedding light onto this matter, you have to speak to those really effected by the war to understand the effects upon the Tamil community. As a second generation Srilankan Tamil, I can only say the I’ve witnessed the effects on my community e.g. depression, suicide, alcoholism, prostitution, gang crimes. All trickled down as an effect of the war.
As a second generation Tamil Sri Lankan also, i hate how the majority of information is spreading hate towards us, we are civilians, my family were raped and murdered but we still get hate
What I like about your videos is that it is an excellent mix of history, political backdrop, journalism and tourism. Don’t find a good mix of these in tourism videos. Great job. Keep it up.
every tamilians know what happend leally...forign and some tamil politiciant didnt like to end that war..but it happend..now everyone feel the freedom..tamil and sinhalees now strongly got their unity..we all now in one familly..
32:54 This statement is misleading the viewers . The government started shelling the No-fire-zone after taking control of the remaining terrorist held areas. After the borders were drawn for the No-fire-zone remaining terrorists were also entered the area and violated the rules so government had no choice but to attack . Even the terrorist leader was also found escaping into the No-fire-zone
Moral of the story is that you can’t be nice during war. Sad for the misery face by both the civilians of Tamil and Sinhalese too. There was incident where whole sinahalese on the bus were killed and attack on Anuradhapura , kandy and many more but, here western media shows only tamils as victims. Many western countries, Tamil diaspora,India and state government of Tamil Nadu are also responsible because they train, funded and encouraged tiger to fight. Sri Lanka’s fault is that they should respect their language and give equal rights to them at first. Deal strongly at initial phase of war. Anyway it’s very brutal game when life is at stake. Don’t even blame army. It’s nature of war. I’m not Sri Lanka but used to follow everyday about this war in news paper and I was very surprised how it ended.
If India didn't interrupt we could have won it in the first place but Rajiv came up with IPKF and got blasted by ltte finally understanding who was the real bad sidw
The damage happened to the other part of the country is much larger than the damage that happened to the North and East part of the country by this bloody war. We people here experienced that, I was in the area which was middle of the boarder between Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE Territory and that time was terrifying. No one should experience something terrible like that. The LTTE literally destroyed everything, They attacked the Scared City Anuradhapura in 1985 and killed hundreds of buddhist monks, then the temple of tooth bomb. Not only that they attacked Airports, Schools, Government institutes, Central Bank as well leaving thousands of innocent civilians to die in pain, still here in this video you try to sympathize those blood thirsty beasts. In our villages, we never slept at night as the LTTE attacked our villages. They came to our homes slammed our babies of ground, killing pregnants, killing everyone they could. Literally it was a great massacre.
@@kasunmahesh1862but where on earth did you come to the conclusion the effect on the rest of the country was worse than a full on war zone, battlefield in the north and east🤣
It damaged the whole country. How can you conclude it is just South. Knowing Mahinda Rajapaksha's capabilities of suppressing civilians during aragalaya times, can you imagine what he must have done to Tamil civilians? So don't be the victim.
@@heransd I mean not the Government ever oppressed Tamil people during war time but it was LTTE, they recruited all teens to their terrorists organization forcibly and trained them as self-destructive fighters. Not the government did such things to Tamil people but the LTTE did those horrible things. In the last few days of war, those desperate terrorists tried to keep 300,000-400,000 people as hostages to buy some time for their leaders to flee the country but thanks to the military of the government, they could defeat those terrorists and rescue all the people who were kept as hostages. Not the government took Tamil people as hostages but the LTTE did.
The Sri Lankan army didn't win in the 4th war because of just the bigger size, if that was the case the US army would've been victorious in afghanistan. The army in the 2000s were much more competent and highly trained, especially among the regular troops which really made the difference in the fight against the ltte cadre. What's special about the ltte cadre was they was usually local to the area they were fighting in and had better knowledge of the terrain. To counter this the SLA with lessons learned by the Special Forces changed the training regiment of the regular soldier drastically and invested more in training schools to actually train than just pump out canon fodder. The prelude to that is, the rise of the competent officers, as you said the SLA was marred with nepotism like the govt. however, this didn't discourage the true officers who slowly rose through the ranks and made Sarath Fonseka the commander of the Army. This in turn led to a purge in the army hierarchy and change of structure. The clumsiness and inefficiency was beaten away from every rank and every camp, younger and more aggressive leaders that showed promise were promoted while the old men hogging the seat were forcibly retired. Along with this, the innovations in Special Forces concepts also had a huge impact, teams were operating way behind enemy lines where tiger leaders were now in fear of being ambushed, which hadn't been the case a decade earlier. In conclusion the army won due to the changes within it's own organization rather than size increase or arms from china nor intelligence from the US, if that had been the case the indian army would've wiped out the tigers. To add on to that, Mahinda Rajapakshe's platform wasn't war, even in his campaign booklet he specifically stated that he was going to lead peace talks, it was only after the operation to free Mavil Aru by the army and the gains they made along the East did Mahinda change his tune, who himself was convinced by Sarath Fonseka.
Dont call this a civil war, the Tamils tried to invade us Sinhalese who were the peaceful majority, we are not the same people and they are just visitors in srilanka till this day
I can imagine the research and effort you have put into this documentary to be impartially portray the history of events. Unbelievable and stunning. Great narrative and first class cinematography. Great observations in very subtle things.
If you live with us for a long, you must say, Tamils are the best people in the world. Now Singhalese government make our youngers drug, alcohol, and smoke addict. 😡😡
Wow really ? Its your own people bring drugs from Tamil Nadu.. Raping underage kids incidents are high who are raping them? Its tamils there not sinhalese
@@ShashakaArchana-lu6ys yes see ur behavior and ur language are tell, who u are, and how u r treat other people, you have to grow up, our people are innocent, only the politicians making all problems.
@@felixperinpam9380Politicians are the problem I agree with that tho.. But we as people can't do anything to them. Best thing to do is leave the country
It’s crazy when you think about how politicians manipulated us for decades Sinhalese and Tamils a lot of share similar culture. and similar ancestry going back during the chola days and the pandya days. but for some reason ever since the British divided and conquered us. they had us separated by religion and caste and division amongst each other it’s sad tbh.
@@tamarind1459 nah its the karawas who came from Tamil Nadu after the 15th century who are the cause of the conflict, they are regarded as lower caste by govigama, so in order to raise their status they act like they are the saviours of sinhala race and start bashing the tamils as much as possible in devious and dishonest ways, like creating 'tobacco slave myths'. Jaffna vellalar mass migrated to sl much before the dutch period and much before the karawa. Prof Gananath Obeysekera, sinhala professor from Princeton university says this: “The Sinhalese identity nowadays is predicated on the view that since they speak an Indo-European language, they are of North Indian origin whereas the Dravidian-speaking Tamils are from the South. The historical reality, however, is totally different. Except perhaps for the oldest stratum of settlers prior to 500 BC, almost all subsequent settlers in Sri Lanka came from South India, mostly from Tamil Nadu, Orissa, and Kerala and quickly became Sinhalised. In fact, some of the most vociferously anti-Tamil castes among the Sinhalese were post-fifteenth century migrants from South India. By contrast, the Tamils of Jaffna and the East Coast have been in Sri Lanka from at least the tenth to the fourteenth centuries AD, if not earlier..” what is your scholarly source? Facebook or WhatsApp university? Jaffna vellalar mass migration is documented to the 13th century in the Jaffna Tamil chronicles, there are even some Tamils living to this day who can trace their ancestry back to named chieftains of that period.
@@BinuraChathuranga this is why you are begging from other countries, your schools teach you how to sell the country, how to cheat the people, you will study very soon from China and India. Then tell me who want to go to school. 😁😁😡
As a sri lankan i felt that the sri lankan government was cunning and congrats the victory while the jaffna tamil and northern province was suffering and dying
Wow, the Cage sounds so much like Gaza right now. Except, 1.2million civilians and only 10k'ish Hamas fighters. (And ofc, except barely any of the same type of colonial occupation Palestine has suffered at the hands of Israel.)
Your counter argument that lesser people would have suffered at the hands of "Tamil Tiger Terrorism" if the SL government didn't kill Tamils by the tens of thousands with impunity is utter nonsense. It is precisely for this reason why most people joined the Tigers in the first place. If the army had played fair from the beginning, the insurgency would have ended much sooner.
Ah yes, because the ltte was playing so fair and notifying everyone when a suicide bomber was dropping by to colombo. Why do you think the army had to escalate their response?
@@ej4458 the SLA were massacring civilians well before the LTTE ever touched a civilian. If the SLA did not touch civilians, the LTTE likely would not have retaliated. You can get a true sense of chronology from comparing the massacre lists: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces
@@sltruth317 one of the lttes first kill was a tamil, is that also because of the SLA, later the ltte would kill more tamils suspecting them to be from rival groups
Money brings lies...you always talk about the SL Army side..why don't you talk about the terrorist side. According to your story, the Tigers did not do anything. Are we the ones who falsely started the war?
You really have outdone yourself with this video. Great analysis with unbiased insight into both sides. One thing I want to note, however, is that, like you said, the reason the bombing and shelling of NFZ could very well be the actual reason that is to compeltely destroy the Tamils will to fight similar to what happened with Nagasaki/Hiroshima bombing. US in WW2 knew that an invasion of Japanese main land would be hugely costly to them manpower wise. In fact, they believed in this to such an extent that they had probably millions of Purple heart medals prepared to be awarded to US soldiers in anticiaption of this costly invasion. But that never happened as terror of nuclear bombs resulted in unconditional surrender of Japanese forces. Similarly, in this case, the SL gov needed to put an end to the fighting immediately and declare victory over the LTTE, and they probably wanted this gial to be achieved with low casualties. Regardless, they did actually help civilians escaping the cage, unlike the diaspora claiming all those who escaped were shot down by the army. Also, I want to highlight another thing that I think is important and is not unique to the Eelam wars. While it is true that in most third world countries, indiscriminate shelling of contested areas with civilain populations are common, there is a more logical reason as to why this is the case rather than the popular view upheld by most westerners who think armies shell simply because they want to terrorize civilians. That is the fact that most armies only have access to indirect fire with limited recon abilities. In other words, they lack sophisticated tools to properly identify combatants from civilans or insirgent camps from civilian settlements. So when you get intel that there are enemies in particular areas, then it will be shelled as you can't take a chance on missing shelling some terroties or enemies. So they lack tools to either properly identify enemy combatants or tsrget them with precision to avoid colalteral damage or both. Precision munitions are still only widely available for developed countries or nations with significant military industrial complexes, and these were not certainly available to SL gov at the turn of the millennium. Anyway, this is not a justification to what happened ultimately, but rather something to think about.
What actually happened was bit different. Sri Lankan military did have UAV drones and monitored the movement of terrorist movement in this area. Soon after they declared No fire zone almost all the high ranking tiger leaders and their families went there along with their high value equipment. Military didn't hesitate to target these but unfortunately tigers always kept their most sensitive items and personal as much as close to civilians. There's so much more to that war than this video tells.
Alex! Really impressed with the quality of work you did. Applause on your rational way of understanding each side of lens, from all perspectives in order to reach to a view which could help determine “Real Lessons Learned” approach. Your hard work (making visits to these spots, geographically pin pointing locations etc and mingling with local residents) add a great resonance to the subject. You deserve a very high ratings due to this hard work which also included research. Please accept my highest gratitude and applause for this great work. I will surely subscribe so I can see other content produced by yourself. Many Thanks Shozab Hussain
he need to describe what happened in both side not only army side i can expained my personly experience,most of LTTE terroiest came to sinhala and tamil villeges and they seeked the pregnet woman and cutting their abdomen and comeout thier babies and were killed.some are rapped by LTTE but they refuse to face human right due to they cant remind past again and again
Mr. Rothman - you are ignoring the very large elephant in the room in your documentary, namely the role of the colonial power (UK). Most Tamils were brought to SL by the British from Tamil Nadu and were favoured by the occupiers at the expense of the indigenous Sinhalese. Most government positions went to the Tamils and this "divide and conquer" policy caused great resentment among the Sinhalese. As the Brits upped and left, they made no attempt to resolve this despite knowing full well that the Sinhalese majority would assert their "rights". This is classic British colonial policy and we can see the effect - from Northern Ireland to Africa to South Asia in the years since independence.
Not quite. There was an indigenous Tamil population up in the north. The ones brought by the British from India were also Tamil, but from a different caste. It was the indigenous Tamil people who benefited relatively from the presence of the British as by coincidence there were American missionary schools in the north where Tamil people had access to a quality English education. Naturally, these people would have gotten the jobs.
I am a mainland Tamil. Your documentary so far is the most well researched documentary I could find in this platform. I am not a supporter of ltte even though many tamils have netral or pro ltte. I could see lots of heat from srilankan people portraying this documentary as biased, failing to realise that they are the ones who are truly biased. Waiting for the end game part. Cheers 🥂
@@tyrant_hermitethnically same, culturally different. Sri Lankan Tamil dialect is more traditional compared to Indian Tamil dialect whivh has been influenced over the years by English , Sanskrit and other Dravidian languages , especially Telugu. The roots of Tamil language haven't changed at all in both since 5000 BCE , but in a way , Learning Sri Lankan Tamil will be more difficult than learning Indian Tamil.
Also I have watched many documentaries related to Sri Lankan civil war. And by far this one is the most neutral one I have ever seen in my life and also love both people are here mature in approach.
The role of the Indian "Peace-Keeping" forces are not really well known in India. Seems like our government was up to all sorts of hijinks in the 1980s without seeking any sort of consent from the people.
At 1:31, the statement "The leading resistance group of Sri Lanka's Tamils were called the Tamil Tigers, or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. They were nimble, fanatical, and absolutely ruthless in slaughtering civilians, both Tamils and Sinhalese!" seems to indicate that comprehensive research hasn't been conducted. Gathering data from one perspective can result in a biased output. If your statement is accurate, do you genuinely believe that Tamil people would have ignored the killings perpetrated by the LTTE and continued to support them? It's evident that your source may have a strong Sinhala bias. (It's important to note that not all Sinhala people are bad; most of them are good and may be misled by their politicians.) in 2003 the LTTE withdrew from peace talks, that's true and they did put forward a series of demand that no Sri Lankan government could agree to. Do you know why? research it yourself, it will find the truth. This is not about civil war, it includes more than that.(most importantly other governments too) in 2004 half the Tigers defected to the government, It was because of a traitor who could not serve justice to his own people. He had problems staying within the control of a person who will not tolerate injustice. Not only he defected he also got away with his men. Consider coming to Sri Lanka again, especially to Jaffna and Trincomalee, to conduct unbiased research. Afterward, you can share your findings on UA-cam. Even today, we are experiencing injustices as we speak."
@@usernameis9157 Of course, those people were killed, and they were Tamils. However, the thirst for justice and independence would have ended long ago if they hadn't done it. You should research why they were killed. It's better to get rid of poison than to let it mix with the milk. Scattering Tamil people into groups such as TULF, EPRLF, TELO, and PLOTE was India's plan. They did this to prevent Tamils from uniting. India trained each group separately and then led them into fighting each other. Don't you ever think that this is just about the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE. It's more than that. The people who govern Sri Lanka will have a great impact on India's security and many other fields, so they can't let someone who won't accept their terms get away. They need only those who could be their puppets. Sri Lanka's importance is well recognized by many nations, but Sri Lanka, we don't know how powerful we are, how we could affect the world. But we had a chance that was destroyed by almost 13 nations. Ask yourself, why do America, India, and many other countries care about Sri Lanka? Why did they help the Sri Lankan government in the civil war? Don't they know that they are helping with a genocide? Is it because they are saints and want peace in some nation far away from them? No! They know our worth, and here we are fighting about the past and implementing Buddha wherever it's not necessary to disturb peace. Do you know how much injustice we still have to face under the Sinhala government? We really wish that someone could save us, but we know when that someone emerges from us, there will suddenly appear many governments to implement justice and peace in Sri Lanka. Do your research, bro!
@@Kaile1789 sympathizer? Have you seen war? Have you seen your relatives get massacred? Have you ever felt like "There's no way for me to live another day, am I going to die?"? I have been through these. and I have asked those exact word to my mom! From your words I understand that you haven't been through such situations and you can't possibly understand. In this world, only the winner decides who are good and who are bad.
@@Kaile1789 even after all these years they managed to execute their plot and bring our younger generation to waste. (police selling information to criminals just to get some money, soldiers providing illegal drugs to school children(this happened a while ago and I don't know if it still happens) and many more things to say. You have to live with us to understand us.
When looked at impartially, "Sri Lankan history" that's taught in schools is not what really affected the existing generation. It's the history from 1948 up to now that they should be teaching in schools, which still isn't happening because of meddlesome political acts. පුතේ, මල්ලියේ, මචං, මේවා දැකලා පශ්චාත් භාග ගිනි තියාගන්නේ නැතුව ටිකක් විවෘතව හිතලා, අතීතයෙන් අනාගතය ගැන අවබෝධ කරගමු. යුද්ධයක් කියන්නේ බිස්නස් එකක්.
@@sirimewanudupila3616 Kids in this country would never know the real reasons behind the war. That's why. Knowledge is power. When history repeats, you can take actions calmly.
@@sirimewanudupila3616"Those who doesn't learn from history are doomed to repeat it". -Winston Churchill, ww2 Lot of people don't understand how important learning history is. It shoulr be mandatory to learn, understand it and making sure it doesn't reoccur again.
I was born in Sudan, Africa but my ethnicity is from Eritrea, Africa. I have been in America (west coast), since I was 18. I am in university studying to be a high school geography/social studies teacher. I always try to think of area of the world that are not of Africa where my ancestors are, or America the culture I have grown up. When it comes to where Sri Lanka. It seems as if it’s never mentioned because where it is on the map. This area of the world is where humans turned into two different kinds of people. The people who like Indians and Sri Lanka and then east oriental. Where Myanmar is. I have never met anybody from Sri Lanka, seen anything about it on the news or anything related to it. This video taught me a lot and has given me a reason to always remember Sri Lanka. I hope to see it in real life one day.
Hi ALEX you did a fabulous job. You touched nook and corners and covered balanced content. You are brilliant, knowledgeable guy. Keep doing more.good luck
Wrong interpretation of the last phase of the war! Compare how the Sri Lanka Govt rescued and rehabilitated the Tamil human hostages of the LTTE in the Mullaitivu pocket, and how the Israeli Govt is treating the Palestinians trapped by the IDF in GAZA ! We cared about the lives of our fellow Tamil citizens held hostage by the LTTE, unlike the Israelis today who seem bent on killing all Palestinians whether they are held hostage by HAMAS or just happen to live in GAZA without being allowed to flee !
A really great documentary. It is not biased, it’s the utter truth what we still fail to realize. No one won the war, we lost for 33 years. We killed each other because of politicians, Sinhalese & Tamil politicians. If it was not for the politicians we wouldn’t have killed each other. Rest in peace all Srilankans who died in the war.
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I am not saying SL army used special weapons which hit only LTTE guys with weapons not the civilians. Mentioned attacks could be intentional or unintentional based on ground intelligence received. But the living feeling was much worst before 2009. We lived in fear that we may endup in a bus/train bomb. So I highly respect Rajapaksha for giving the necessary political leadership and for Fonseka for leading the army till the end. Its because we had leaders who's intention was not end the war rather keep it for their own benefits. Its doesnt mean I am saying what Rajapaksha's did to journalists, economy are right too. They must be investigated and give punishment. Lasantha's murder was more or less related to revealing MIG deal. I am pretty sure what Tamil people experienced in north before 2009 was similar fear. But now we live in peace and lets try to keep it and make SL better place for our next generation. Still Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim politicians use ethnic differences, religions to their own benefits and divide people and rule over them. Hope SL will understand their agendas and live in peace in generations to come.
Thereare also differences between Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamil labourer migrants in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Tamils were amongst the earlier settlers in the North East of the Island nation, after the Veddas people . The Sinhalese came much later around the time of Janapadas. Sri Lankan Tamil kingdoms and Chiefdoms have had a great impact of Sri Lankan history like Jaffna Kingdom . On the contrary , Indian Tamils were of lower caste and also from economically poor and marginalised groups who were brought into Sri Lanka by Brits during Colonial era and mostly settled in Central ,South Western and East coast ,where most of the island's Rubber and Tea plantations were established. Also note that During Black July riots, It were the Indian tamil migrant diaspora ,which suffered the most compared to Sri Lankan Jaffna Tamils and also Most of the Indian Tamil labour diaspora actually supported the JVP over Tamil tigers because of Societal class warfare . Also after JVP was supressed , A large number of Indian tamils were recruited by Sri Lankan army to fight against their Northern brethens, sometimes conscripted at gunpoint if necessary. Later some of these Indian Tamils eventually decided to return back to India.
The statement in question presents a series of historical inaccuracies and oversimplifications regarding the history of Sri Lanka and the distinctions between Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamil laborer migrants. Let's break down the inaccuracies and provide a more accurate historical perspective: Origins of the Sinhalese: The statement suggests that the Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka much later, around the time of Janapadas. This is not supported by historical evidence. The Sinhalese people are considered one of the indigenous communities of Sri Lanka, with their origins dating back to ancient times. Their historical presence on the island significantly predates the period mentioned. Indian Tamil Migration: While it is true that there were differences between Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamil laborer migrants, the statement oversimplifies the reasons for Indian Tamil migration to Sri Lanka. Indian Tamil laborers were brought to Sri Lanka by the British colonial authorities during the 19th and early 20th centuries to work on tea and rubber plantations. It's important to note that these laborers came from various backgrounds, including both lower and higher castes, and were not solely from economically poor and marginalized groups. In providing a more accurate historical perspective, it's essential to consult scholarly works and historical accounts that delve into the complexities of Sri Lanka's history, ethnic relations, and political dynamics. References such as "The History of Sri Lanka" by Patrick Peebles and "The Politics of Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka" by Ambalavaner Sivanandan provide in-depth analyses of these topics, offering a more nuanced understanding of the historical events mentioned in the statement. Additionally, research articles and academic studies on Sri Lankan history and politics can further illuminate these complex issues.
I love how unbias you tell stories. I have no idea who the good guys and bad guys are meant to be, and that is the best way to understand how these things happen in the first place.
It's wise to refrain from discussing topics that aren't well understood. Imagine someone with limited driving experience attempting to speed through a bustling city in a large vehicle - the outcome is easily predictable. Therefore, it's crucial to grasp the truth before expressing opinions about specific matters. It is truly disheartening to observe your inability to unearth the genuine truth obscured beneath the veneer of media narratives and self-proclaimed institutions.
There was no civil war in Sri lanka. Civil war means civilians go up against one another based on cast, race etc. what we had in Sri lanka was a terrorist organization vs the government of Sri lanka. More than enough tamil people lived in majority sinhala ruled areas.
@@cameronpillay8050 🤣 you can say that too, everyone with brains are just leaving, the proper way not the "Ohhh my family is being killed way", and we are not forced to come back. Elam and shitpora made it difficult for anyone with proper requirements leave. They made a bad image of shitlanka overseas.
Donno what to learn though, we won nothing, we only lost, yeah it's a good suggestion to include this to students' books, but the expected outcome of that should be really evaluated.
You’ll be surprised how many locals know about the true story and the sinister war crimes gov/army committed. Mainstream media is so centralized all we saw was how bravely our army has ended a war, hiding all the dark secrets behind.
You have to research more into the root cause of the civil war. In Sri Lanka both Sinhalese and Tamils have two different versions of history. Because of this, both Sinhalese and Tamils cannot reconcile with the nature of the state. The reason is the spill over of Dravidian Ideology from TN.
I don't understand the need of people to divulge in history so much. US has a very short history and is the beat country in the world. That is why education is more important than religions.
History has nothing to do with this matter. 2000 yrs ago the whole Sri Lanka was ruled under a one king, Including Jaffna peninsula. According to the Vallipuram gold inscription found from Jaffana 1940s, It was clearly proven using both archeological & written evidences. No matter whts the history. What matters the most is the harmony between different ethnicities under a one flag & one nation.
An example of getting punished for their sins is now Sri Lanka's economic collapse and the food crisis. "Karma is like a boomerang. Good or bad, what you put out into the universe will be given back to you." 🙏🐯
Sri lankans, both tamil and sinhalese are some of the most traumatised people in the world, each and every person above 25 years has had some experience related to the war. Thier was a tsunami and a Jvp insurrection. Yet Sri lankans still manage to be one of the most welcoming and friendly people, they will go out of their way to help a stranger in need. They have this rare ability to smile and forget even after facing unbelievable horrors.
Eelam war is not only war the islanders went through...the island had been invaded 21 times...but the islanders rise above each time..
@@tamarind1459not islanders it was sinhalese
@@chamarama9349No islanders, Tamil and Sinhalese
@@chamarama9349 We indians only created sinhalese😂
@@vanisridhar5509North Indian indo aryans
As a Sri Lankan I truly applaud you for putting the effort to make and share this country and it’s history as a Tamil my parents lived through the war and migrated to England, I am often called Indian as this country isn’t that recognised so I thank you!
well ur not sinhalese...
so ur an indian
@@firstconsul001
Sinhalese look Indian too. You can’t tell whether someone is from Sri Lanka just by their appearance
wasnt my point. Original Sri Lankans are sinhalese, a majority of tamillians in Sri Lanka were slaves brought in by the british@@KtmrM
@@firstconsul001 Incorrect, Sinhalese first came to Sri Lanka as migrants from Orissa. Balangoda people are the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka, who are direct ancestors of the Veddas.
Your correct. The sinhalese came from west bengal and odisha. Hapolotypical analysis shows their clear preserved ancestry to northern indian. This is not to disregard their genetic components shared with the west inidians. Espically the Kalingas.
When the sinhalese came, its known they exterminted the original inhabitants, the yakkahs.
@@alchemyst6893
I never say I am Sinhalese; I say I am Sri Lankan. I don't want to teach my children Sinhala or Tamil. I want them to study in English because that's how I earn most of my income.
teach them sinhala (or Tamil if you're mother tongue is that). They will feel like an outcast if they live in Sri Lanka. Plus, it's cool to know 2 languages.
You can teach them all the 3 languages it will empower them, All the Best to Sri Lanka!
@@zerbutterftw You're absolutely right-teaching Sinhala or Tamil is essential, especially if it's your mother tongue. It helps people feel connected and at home in Sri Lanka. Plus, knowing two languages is an amazing skill!
Until 1956, English was our official language, but it changed, and now Sinhala and Tamil are the official languages. However, if you know English, you can communicate globally, do freelancing, and work with big companies. I work for an Australian company, and if I didn't know English, they would never have given me the job because communication is the main skill companies look for. If in 1956 Sinhala and Tamil had not become the official languages, English might still be our native language (Sri Lanka).
I hope everyone who reads this comment will improve their English day by day and make their life happier than yesterday. I don't like Sinhala, but I really love English. My dream is to improve my English every day, and yes, I can.
The Sinhalese and the Tamils lived peacefully until the British government used divide and rule tactics which lodged a wedge between the two communities, they did the same in Malaysia between the Malays and the Chinese, and in India between the Hindus and the Muslims, in Africa too.
Buddhists vs muslims in srilanka and Myanmar Jews vs muslims in isreal Christains vs muslims in Europe,Nigeria ,Hindus vs muslims in IndiaYajidis vs muslims in Iraq
Organized violence is as old as dirt. Religion, ethnicity, race, class, caste, clan, tribe and whatever the fuck. Pre colonial Sri Lanka was not very peaceful. There were many invasions from South India. How do you think the tamils got to North Sri Lanka in the first place? It was also never a unified country before British rule, and the states were at war with each other more often than not. Doesn't excuse Britain of taking over half the globe but this narrative that the world was a peaceful place prior to European colonialism is crazy 😂
Same culprit everywhere man.
@@katsullivanWell, shows that the " culprit" is better that the rest, since the rest are weak to face it 😂😂😂😂
@@AymanAnual culprit is now going down as a worst country in the world😂
I don't understand why so many Sinhalese in the comment section denies the attrocities commitied by the SL army and government.
Watch all tamil tiger videos and read all yhe comments especially the sinhalese comments and you will see who are the real terrorists
Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and Burgher are all same. As Sri lankens we need to change this corrupted system.
I deny it
But you will also have to admit Prabhakaran was a terrorist
Can you?
Using poor people (mostly children) against a army full of heavy weapons ? Isn't that worth considering?
Tamils mothers lost their children because once they were forcefully taken to Ltte, they will die by the hands of SL army...
So he can play the victim card
Tamils knew what Prabhakaran's ideology was...
You gotta understand that
I know the reason for this is Black July (Responsible man is the former president and his government)
But It doesnt justify Ltte works
Why we have faild our island.
Why for one ethnicity
Why 250$ B dollers vanished
Who has to blame
So do Americans, israelis, british, japanese, they all deny doing terrible things to people they have power over.
කොටි සංවිධානය සිංහල සිවිල් ජනතාවට බෝම්බ තියපුවත් පෙන්නපන්
Your video series about Sri Lanka is seriously underrated. The production quality and the amount of effort you must have put into these videos are crazy. These videos are timeless and I love the way how it's sequenced.
Thanks a ton!
This video, even not saying, went to went the problem was started. Sinhala Only Act 1956.
Tamil Tiger started 1976
Tamil University student not accept.
He started to fight at age 16.
And sri lanka 99% of people don’t know why the war begin.
As Sri Lankans, We should not get divided as Sinhalese,Tamils,Muslims or etc..What we need is peace. Not a war. Past is past & lets be careful, not to given any chance to anyone who would use us for their personal propagandas.
There is a no winner in war, we do not have anything to celebrate here. poor civilians. Rest in peace brothers and sisters
There is always a winner in this war. whoever gains the most in the longer run.
@@patriotenfield3276 No winner on war.😢
History is Written by Winners
Thank you so much for this video! As a young Tamil Sri Lankan I am sad to hear what everyone and my parents had to go through.
not only yours everyone
Our fathers and uncles too went to the war😢..
@@mahima2md88 that's what they said, everyone
I am a Sinhalese and I feel so sorry for both our Tamil and Sinhalese people who had to go through this brutal war.
@@buwa0 Me too!
Your series on recent Sri Lankan history is phenomenal. My mum is Sri Lankan and a lot of her work involves documenting the voices of civil war survivors from all sides. Watching your content has given me a new depth of insight and appreciation into what she does. Thank you!
Bro, please ask her to document the voices of people who still suffer under the rule of fanatical politicians, even after all these years.
what is your dad?
@@judejeevanmahendran She does a bit of that too. There is some degree of overlap after all!
@@WastedBananas He's British & Irish
horrible. your mum should be ashamed of herself. @@AllAboutClimate
As a Sinhalese, I can agree that this is one of the most balanced documentaries about the Civil War I've seen
Never , Sinhalese are our friends not Sinhalese politicians
@@jgodwinperies Sri Lanka n Buddhism was destroyed by the Sinhalese Buddhist monks
@@e7engineering550no it isn't ari Lanka is a Buddhist country even in its early days
Fifteen years ago, a Sri Lankan could not even dream of the peace they are experiencing today 🧡
@@dachu3122010 the Sinhala Only Act, 🔥 burning of Jaffna Library 📚, Black July 1983 etc were all created by the Sinhalese people and Buddhist Monks.
Karma, Karma!!! The Lion 🦁 is begging for forex n petrol ⛽️
This guy have created an utterly biased video on someone elses civil war. What is he gaining by SENASATIONALISING wars to gain views and recognition?
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First off, there wasn’t a civil war it was all about terrorist and a country’s army. If it’s civil war why the hell USA and Europe banned LTTE as terrorist group. There are more tamil living in south part of the country with majority Sinhala population without an issue but Sinahala people aren’t allowed to live in north then you called it civil war? Even tamil people clash each other for their own cast so tamils leaving north to south to seek freedom. hope it cleared now!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. But you didn’t mention how many bombs were blasted in urban area as well in rural area during this period. There were so many casualties. Even they have killed farmers and their families. This is the two sides of the same coin. We can’t justify only one party was lesser brutal than the other. So it’s better to do your travel around the Sri Lanka without giving your thoughts and feelings regarding this cvil war. This will escalate the tension between the Tamil and Sinhalese again. We are now living in peace
Ltte dragged children from their homes and forced them to serve in yheir military
But there isn't actual proof of LTTE bombing those areas. There is proof regarding the SL army bombing though.
Looks like you were in coma in that war period ...😂😂😂😂
@@grimoirehe4rt irony in asking for proof for comitting war crimes
@@gonzalesbuttmuncher8491 I didn't say that, I said the guy's statement doesn't mean anything. He should be criticizing the Lanka government.
To all my fellow sri lankan brothers ans sisters, PLEASE dont vote for the Rajapaksha clan
Don't. Say. Iie. That's. Not. Civil. War. It's. Terrerisiom. For. Separate. State. 😂😂😂😂😂
Why tamil want separate state???
Sinhala government dont give their rights
Still many innocent Sinhala people think that they won again Tamil people but honestly they have done a sin to them. I have no idea how much they are going to suffer inreturns. Thank you so much for speaking up the truth Alex 🙏🏽💖. #peace live and let live
So what about bomb blast huh? Literally slaughtering child monks,preg mothers,muslims bros is it justifiable
Yes, now the country is worst, since Sinhala Buddhist took over the country fully since 2009.
Ha ha same goes with tamils .
We won against terrorists. Not with our own people
@@thamudaj1896 yeah bro! btw why they became terrorists?
Yes it good video, but it is one side. trying to see both sides
There are no war anymore. Be happy about that 🇱🇰🙏🏾💪🏾
Now in debt to China and living in poverty forever
Was there for 2 weeks around 2018. I only visited mostly the south and the center. I really enjoyed Sri Lanka, people were nice and helpful. I would love to go back again and this time I would definitely want to visit the north and east side of the country
These "country portaits" are really great, keep them up.
I especially enjoy your historic narrating Interrupted by acute "travel scenes". It makes all so much more tangible, especially as you portray countries often forgotten in the Western mind.
I am surprised that you always try to show that the Sri Lankan army is bad. First of all, the Sri Lankan army went to war to provide a peaceful Sri Lanka for all religions including the Tamils and Sinhalese. Moreover, the Sri Lankan army carried out the world largest humanitarian operation in the world by freeing more than 30000 the Tamils from the LTTE that who used them as a human war barrier by lTTE. .if theres a family the mother and father used separate transport because No one knows when a bomb will explode.. another more to tell. All these did by LTTE terrorist organisation. Not the tamil people. tamil peoples also wanted to end this terrorism. people in sri lanka don't wanted to devide. all these happend for the politician's needs. also people don't like to introduce themselves as a tamil or sinhalese.they would like to introduce them as a sri lankans. sri lankans only want to live in peace with all religions.
Tamils and Sinhalese did not suffer equally. Equating the suffering of Sinhalese to Tamils would be like equating the suffering of Hutus to Tutsis during the Rwandan Civil War. Tamils were overwhelmingly the victims during the conflict and 99% of Tamil victims were killed by the tri-forces and state sponsored paramilitaries and extremist groups.
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.
Source: Trust me, bro.
(SL Army rescued 386 hostages including 157 children, 98 women, and 137 men(Tamil)." There is no safety zone anymore, they (LTTE cadres) are putting bombs and traps on all possible escape routes available for us. They fire machine guns, throw hand grenades, and even fire mortars at people whenever they feel that people are organizing to escape", a Tamil youth has said. )
justin trudeau is very much hated in his country so such circus acts were nothing but to entertain his clown show.
❤ shitalese are a dirty little peop
What is the Tamil population in Srilanka if the 99% of them are killed ?
Based Sri Lankans, no mercy for LTTE terrorists. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰♥️🇱🇰
Reminder their were no good people here
Look who is talking about terrorism😂
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Been waiting a long time for this and you did not disappoint. I would love for you to conclude this series by discussing whether reconciliation could ever be achieved and if so what that would look like. Given the brutality of the war that took place and the sheer scale of the loss of life which occurred it would be good to discuss where the country could go from here. As always thank you for this series! Glad I discovered this gem of a channel.
Animals kill animal for eat but Human kill human for eat. No no no Human kill Human for Unthinking and Craziness.😢
LTTE also killed Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Sri Lankan President Premadasa and also numerous cabinet ministers
You forgot to mention the assasination of Rajeev Gandhi ( prime minister of India) and the effects of 2004 Indian ocean Tsunami.
If you know nothing about terrorism please stop this chanel and study first and start create video with true information
I can't thank you enough for producing quality content like this ❤ Hats off man❤️
Thank you very much, the last video is right around the corner!
Thank you so much for shining light on the history of Sri Lanka, and our issues. Even Sri Lankans don’t care this much to learn or talk about this. Keep up the good work bro!
Puka deepan gihin boru pathurawana diaspora kaarayanta.. Sakkiliya
Ukraine army also use hospital as military based ?? Same did by LTTE
@@sachds3333 Who told you? Any proof rather than propaganda fake news? Ukrainian army doesn't kill civilians like LTTE did. How you compare a terror organization with a professional army? Are you a terrorist sympathizer?
@user-dr2sh2pe8mIf the past is forgotten, it is doomed to repeat again. Best thing is to understand the whole thing and to makesure nothing like that to happen again.
@@sachds3333Ukraine government army.not a group
There are lots of wrong interpretations of what happened in this video.
true
Thanks again for this. Your content deserves way more views, especially among the younger generation in Sri Lanka.
I haven't seen any other documentary that gives a balanced view of both sides like you have done here, usually it's one side or the other that's portrayed for whatever agenda.
This is a factually inaccura bunch of lies with semi truths. 😂Tamils who joined the LTTe is considered as scum by most Tamils in Jaffna they are almost segregated .😂😂😂
"The leading resistance group of Sri Lanka's Tamils were called the Tamil Tigers, or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. They were nimble, fanatical, and absolutely ruthless in slaughtering civilians, both Tamils and Sinhalese!" this statement proves that everything he says is not a balanced view of both sides.
@@judejeevanmahendran It's an accurate statement.
@@ranilabeyasinghe I don't think so!
@@judejeevanmahendran Because your opinion is one sided.
As much as I respect this man for shedding light onto this matter, you have to speak to those really effected by the war to understand the effects upon the Tamil community. As a second generation Srilankan Tamil, I can only say the I’ve witnessed the effects on my community e.g. depression, suicide, alcoholism, prostitution, gang crimes. All trickled down as an effect of the war.
suicide da bro??
As a second generation Tamil Sri Lankan also, i hate how the majority of information is spreading hate towards us, we are civilians, my family were raped and murdered but we still get hate
@@joshuagunaselvam3168 So only Sinhalese begging to india for food. Don't care about beggers bro.
They need medical attention sounds like it's a mental health issue
@@vanisridhar5509😂😂 init bruh u survived the war but now u wanna kill it self wtf people on
What I like about your videos is that it is an excellent mix of history, political backdrop, journalism and tourism. Don’t find a good mix of these in tourism videos. Great job. Keep it up.
every tamilians know what happend leally...forign and some tamil politiciant didnt like to end that war..but it happend..now everyone feel the freedom..tamil and sinhalees now strongly got their unity..we all now in one familly..
Dictators on BOTH sides make EVIL wars 😢😮17/10/23
Dictator was Prabhakaran and Mahinda was a thief
Dictator and unhinged militant was Prabhakaran. Mahinda is just a old man lost his honor and grip to act righteous as he aged
My nationality Tamil
You are Sri Lankan and maybe your ethnicity is Tamil but who cares ?
We are Sri Lankans
Completely biased story and mostly highlights against Tamil.
Bro he was talking about the shelling of the no fire zone, he was balancing both sides equally
tamils were defeated by world fool supports to sinhalese army but tigers faught only with support of tamil people so the real heroes are tigers
There is no excuse for killing those school girls. Its just disgusting. Hope those invloved suffer in shame and anxiety
32:54 This statement is misleading the viewers . The government started shelling the No-fire-zone after taking control of the remaining terrorist held areas. After the borders were drawn for the No-fire-zone remaining terrorists were also entered the area and violated the rules so government had no choice but to attack . Even the terrorist leader was also found escaping into the No-fire-zone
Well said ❤
Moral of the story is that you can’t be nice during war. Sad for the misery face by both the civilians of Tamil and Sinhalese too. There was incident where whole sinahalese on the bus were killed and attack on Anuradhapura , kandy and many more but, here western media shows only tamils as victims. Many western countries, Tamil diaspora,India and state government of Tamil Nadu are also responsible because they train, funded and encouraged tiger to fight. Sri Lanka’s fault is that they should respect their language and give equal rights to them at first. Deal strongly at initial phase of war. Anyway it’s very brutal game when life is at stake. Don’t even blame army. It’s nature of war. I’m not Sri Lanka but used to follow everyday about this war in news paper and I was very surprised how it ended.
If India didn't interrupt we could have won it in the first place but Rajiv came up with IPKF and got blasted by ltte finally understanding who was the real bad sidw
I come from Somalia i like people Srilankan
The damage happened to the other part of the country is much larger than the damage that happened to the North and East part of the country by this bloody war. We people here experienced that, I was in the area which was middle of the boarder between Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE Territory and that time was terrifying. No one should experience something terrible like that. The LTTE literally destroyed everything, They attacked the Scared City Anuradhapura in 1985 and killed hundreds of buddhist monks, then the temple of tooth bomb. Not only that they attacked Airports, Schools, Government institutes, Central Bank as well leaving thousands of innocent civilians to die in pain, still here in this video you try to sympathize those blood thirsty beasts. In our villages, we never slept at night as the LTTE attacked our villages. They came to our homes slammed our babies of ground, killing pregnants, killing everyone they could. Literally it was a great massacre.
So the Sri Lankan government and the Army was saints. Both are equally responsible.
@@alucardhellsing1037 I never said that government was right but no body can expect the fairness from a war period.
@@kasunmahesh1862but where on earth did you come to the conclusion the effect on the rest of the country was worse than a full on war zone, battlefield in the north and east🤣
It damaged the whole country. How can you conclude it is just South. Knowing Mahinda Rajapaksha's capabilities of suppressing civilians during aragalaya times, can you imagine what he must have done to Tamil civilians? So don't be the victim.
@@heransd I mean not the Government ever oppressed Tamil people during war time but it was LTTE, they recruited all teens to their terrorists organization forcibly and trained them as self-destructive fighters. Not the government did such things to Tamil people but the LTTE did those horrible things. In the last few days of war, those desperate terrorists tried to keep 300,000-400,000 people as hostages to buy some time for their leaders to flee the country but thanks to the military of the government, they could defeat those terrorists and rescue all the people who were kept as hostages. Not the government took Tamil people as hostages but the LTTE did.
The Sri Lankan army didn't win in the 4th war because of just the bigger size, if that was the case the US army would've been victorious in afghanistan. The army in the 2000s were much more competent and highly trained, especially among the regular troops which really made the difference in the fight against the ltte cadre. What's special about the ltte cadre was they was usually local to the area they were fighting in and had better knowledge of the terrain. To counter this the SLA with lessons learned by the Special Forces changed the training regiment of the regular soldier drastically and invested more in training schools to actually train than just pump out canon fodder. The prelude to that is, the rise of the competent officers, as you said the SLA was marred with nepotism like the govt. however, this didn't discourage the true officers who slowly rose through the ranks and made Sarath Fonseka the commander of the Army. This in turn led to a purge in the army hierarchy and change of structure. The clumsiness and inefficiency was beaten away from every rank and every camp, younger and more aggressive leaders that showed promise were promoted while the old men hogging the seat were forcibly retired. Along with this, the innovations in Special Forces concepts also had a huge impact, teams were operating way behind enemy lines where tiger leaders were now in fear of being ambushed, which hadn't been the case a decade earlier. In conclusion the army won due to the changes within it's own organization rather than size increase or arms from china nor intelligence from the US, if that had been the case the indian army would've wiped out the tigers. To add on to that, Mahinda Rajapakshe's platform wasn't war, even in his campaign booklet he specifically stated that he was going to lead peace talks, it was only after the operation to free Mavil Aru by the army and the gains they made along the East did Mahinda change his tune, who himself was convinced by Sarath Fonseka.
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I am proud Tamilian
No you are Sri Lankan
Why cant you just say a Sri Lankan?
You are Sri Lankan. Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils, we are all Sri Lankans.
not covered nearly enough
Dont call this a civil war, the Tamils tried to invade us Sinhalese who were the peaceful majority, we are not the same people and they are just visitors in srilanka till this day
You created your own language without paali from north india? Study your mahavamsham
@@s.t.kabilanPaali not Tamil 🧑🏿
@@TheBasedDude Tamil also mixed you idiot I’m talking about the history Sinhalese migrated from north India isn’t it?
:D can we not start a another please (i'm Sinhalese)
Read Mahawansaya ❤️
I can imagine the research and effort you have put into this documentary to be impartially portray the history of events. Unbelievable and stunning. Great narrative and first class cinematography. Great observations in very subtle things.
If you live with us for a long, you must say, Tamils are the best people in the world. Now Singhalese government make our youngers drug, alcohol, and smoke addict. 😡😡
Wow really ? Its your own people bring drugs from Tamil Nadu.. Raping underage kids incidents are high who are raping them? Its tamils there not sinhalese
Bruh 😢
😂WHAT THE FUCK!
OI dont blame everything to government and armed forces
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@@ShashakaArchana-lu6ys yes see ur behavior and ur language are tell, who u are, and how u r treat other people, you have to grow up, our people are innocent, only the politicians making all problems.
@@felixperinpam9380Politicians are the problem I agree with that tho..
But we as people can't do anything to them. Best thing to do is leave the country
It’s crazy when you think about how politicians manipulated us for decades Sinhalese and Tamils a lot of share similar culture. and similar ancestry going back during the chola days and the pandya days. but for some reason ever since the British divided and conquered us. they had us separated by religion and caste and division amongst each other it’s sad tbh.
Yep it was started by the dutch by using the vellalars who were imported from the malabar coast.
@@tamarind1459 this EXACTLY !!!
@@tamarind1459 nah its the karawas who came from Tamil Nadu after the 15th century who are the cause of the conflict, they are regarded as lower caste by govigama, so in order to raise their status they act like they are the saviours of sinhala race and start bashing the tamils as much as possible in devious and dishonest ways, like creating 'tobacco slave myths'. Jaffna vellalar mass migrated to sl much before the dutch period and much before the karawa. Prof Gananath Obeysekera, sinhala professor from Princeton university says this:
“The Sinhalese identity nowadays is predicated on the view that since they speak an Indo-European language, they are of North Indian origin whereas the Dravidian-speaking Tamils are from the South. The historical reality, however, is totally different. Except perhaps for the oldest stratum of settlers prior to 500 BC, almost all subsequent settlers in Sri Lanka came from South India, mostly from Tamil Nadu, Orissa, and Kerala and quickly became Sinhalised. In fact, some of the most vociferously anti-Tamil castes among the Sinhalese were post-fifteenth century migrants from South India. By contrast, the Tamils of Jaffna and the East Coast have been in Sri Lanka from at least the tenth to the fourteenth centuries AD, if not earlier..”
what is your scholarly source? Facebook or WhatsApp university? Jaffna vellalar mass migration is documented to the 13th century in the Jaffna Tamil chronicles, there are even some Tamils living to this day who can trace their ancestry back to named chieftains of that period.
IT WAS TTTE TERRORIST WAR
Why we don't have a own country for Tamils, why Singhalese control us? Now no ltte, still lots of army police camp's in our side,
You think south doesn't have police? 😅 Go to school. Learn something other than brutality. 😊
@@BinuraChathuranga this is why you are begging from other countries, your schools teach you how to sell the country, how to cheat the people, you will study very soon from China and India. Then tell me who want to go to school. 😁😁😡
@@felixperinpam9380 if you really attend to a school plz ask for a better english teacher. I'm having stroke strying to read what you said
Tamilnadu is a separate state of tamils. Why do you need a separate country anyway ?
As a sri lankan i felt that the sri lankan government was cunning and congrats the victory while the jaffna tamil and northern province was suffering and dying
If any of you think Sri Lankan government or the Tamil Eelam were bad, y’all should also see NATO and American actions in the Middle East
Thank you for the amazing video. History lessons in Sri Lankan schools skip these parts of our history.
Wow, the Cage sounds so much like Gaza right now. Except, 1.2million civilians and only 10k'ish Hamas fighters. (And ofc, except barely any of the same type of colonial occupation Palestine has suffered at the hands of Israel.)
Tamils are better than Sinhalese
No. We are all equal.
Your counter argument that lesser people would have suffered at the hands of "Tamil Tiger Terrorism" if the SL government didn't kill Tamils by the tens of thousands with impunity is utter nonsense. It is precisely for this reason why most people joined the Tigers in the first place. If the army had played fair from the beginning, the insurgency would have ended much sooner.
Interesting, you think that was my argument?
Ah yes, because the ltte was playing so fair and notifying everyone when a suicide bomber was dropping by to colombo. Why do you think the army had to escalate their response?
@@ej4458 the SLA were massacring civilians well before the LTTE ever touched a civilian. If the SLA did not touch civilians, the LTTE likely would not have retaliated. You can get a true sense of chronology from comparing the massacre lists:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces
@@sltruth317 one of the lttes first kill was a tamil, is that also because of the SLA, later the ltte would kill more tamils suspecting them to be from rival groups
Well the SL Army was killing and r*ping Tamils way before all this LTTE argument...
Money brings lies...you always talk about the SL Army side..why don't you talk about the terrorist side. According to your story, the Tigers did not do anything. Are we the ones who falsely started the war?
He does talk about their crimes in other videos in this series . Did you not watch all the videos ?
Is it civil war?
You really have outdone yourself with this video. Great analysis with unbiased insight into both sides. One thing I want to note, however, is that, like you said, the reason the bombing and shelling of NFZ could very well be the actual reason that is to compeltely destroy the Tamils will to fight similar to what happened with Nagasaki/Hiroshima bombing. US in WW2 knew that an invasion of Japanese main land would be hugely costly to them manpower wise. In fact, they believed in this to such an extent that they had probably millions of Purple heart medals prepared to be awarded to US soldiers in anticiaption of this costly invasion. But that never happened as terror of nuclear bombs resulted in unconditional surrender of Japanese forces. Similarly, in this case, the SL gov needed to put an end to the fighting immediately and declare victory over the LTTE, and they probably wanted this gial to be achieved with low casualties. Regardless, they did actually help civilians escaping the cage, unlike the diaspora claiming all those who escaped were shot down by the army.
Also, I want to highlight another thing that I think is important and is not unique to the Eelam wars. While it is true that in most third world countries, indiscriminate shelling of contested areas with civilain populations are common, there is a more logical reason as to why this is the case rather than the popular view upheld by most westerners who think armies shell simply because they want to terrorize civilians. That is the fact that most armies only have access to indirect fire with limited recon abilities. In other words, they lack sophisticated tools to properly identify combatants from civilans or insirgent camps from civilian settlements. So when you get intel that there are enemies in particular areas, then it will be shelled as you can't take a chance on missing shelling some terroties or enemies. So they lack tools to either properly identify enemy combatants or tsrget them with precision to avoid colalteral damage or both. Precision munitions are still only widely available for developed countries or nations with significant military industrial complexes, and these were not certainly available to SL gov at the turn of the millennium. Anyway, this is not a justification to what happened ultimately, but rather something to think about.
What actually happened was bit different. Sri Lankan military did have UAV drones and monitored the movement of terrorist movement in this area. Soon after they declared No fire zone almost all the high ranking tiger leaders and their families went there along with their high value equipment. Military didn't hesitate to target these but unfortunately tigers always kept their most sensitive items and personal as much as close to civilians. There's so much more to that war than this video tells.
Alex!
Really impressed with the quality of work you did. Applause on your rational way of understanding each side of lens, from all perspectives in order to reach to a view which could help determine “Real Lessons Learned” approach. Your hard work (making visits to these spots, geographically pin pointing locations etc and mingling with local residents) add a great resonance to the subject.
You deserve a very high ratings due to this hard work which also included research.
Please accept my highest gratitude and applause for this great work. I will surely subscribe so I can see other content produced by yourself.
Many Thanks
Shozab Hussain
he need to describe what happened in both side not only army side i can expained my personly experience,most of LTTE terroiest came to sinhala and tamil villeges and they seeked the pregnet woman and cutting their abdomen and comeout thier babies and were killed.some are rapped by LTTE but they refuse to face human right due to they cant remind past again and again
There are terrorist not rebals
Mr. Rothman - you are ignoring the very large elephant in the room in your documentary, namely the role of the colonial power (UK). Most Tamils were brought to SL by the British from Tamil Nadu and were favoured by the occupiers at the expense of the indigenous Sinhalese. Most government positions went to the Tamils and this "divide and conquer" policy caused great resentment among the Sinhalese. As the Brits upped and left, they made no attempt to resolve this despite knowing full well that the Sinhalese majority would assert their "rights". This is classic British colonial policy and we can see the effect - from Northern Ireland to Africa to South Asia in the years since independence.
Not quite. There was an indigenous Tamil population up in the north.
The ones brought by the British from India were also Tamil, but from a different caste.
It was the indigenous Tamil people who benefited relatively from the presence of the British as by coincidence there were American missionary schools in the north where Tamil people had access to a quality English education. Naturally, these people would have gotten the jobs.
@@thushanhettige5003 Most.tamils displays by british raj period for slaves
I am a mainland Tamil. Your documentary so far is the most well researched documentary I could find in this platform. I am not a supporter of ltte even though many tamils have netral or pro ltte. I could see lots of heat from srilankan people portraying this documentary as biased, failing to realise that they are the ones who are truly biased. Waiting for the end game part. Cheers 🥂
@@thusharasilva5352Tamil Nadu, India.
@@tyrant_hermitThere are no such Mainland Tamils, there are Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamils, both different.
@@grimoirehe4rt We are the same people ethnically.
@@tyrant_hermitethnically same, culturally different. Sri Lankan Tamil dialect is more traditional compared to Indian Tamil dialect whivh has been influenced over the years by English , Sanskrit and other Dravidian languages , especially Telugu. The roots of Tamil language haven't changed at all in both since 5000 BCE , but in a way , Learning Sri Lankan Tamil will be more difficult than learning Indian Tamil.
Also I have watched many documentaries related to Sri Lankan civil war. And by far this one is the most neutral one I have ever seen in my life and also love both people are here mature in approach.
The role of the Indian "Peace-Keeping" forces are not really well known in India. Seems like our government was up to all sorts of hijinks in the 1980s without seeking any sort of consent from the people.
At 1:31, the statement "The leading resistance group of Sri Lanka's Tamils were called the Tamil Tigers, or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. They were nimble, fanatical, and absolutely ruthless in slaughtering civilians, both Tamils and Sinhalese!" seems to indicate that comprehensive research hasn't been conducted. Gathering data from one perspective can result in a biased output.
If your statement is accurate, do you genuinely believe that Tamil people would have ignored the killings perpetrated by the LTTE and continued to support them?
It's evident that your source may have a strong Sinhala bias. (It's important to note that not all Sinhala people are bad; most of them are good and may be misled by their politicians.)
in 2003 the LTTE withdrew from peace talks, that's true and they did put forward a series of demand that no Sri Lankan government could agree to. Do you know why? research it yourself, it will find the truth. This is not about civil war, it includes more than that.(most importantly other governments too)
in 2004 half the Tigers defected to the government, It was because of a traitor who could not serve justice to his own people. He had problems staying within the control of a person who will not tolerate injustice. Not only he defected he also got away with his men.
Consider coming to Sri Lanka again, especially to Jaffna and Trincomalee, to conduct unbiased research. Afterward, you can share your findings on UA-cam. Even today, we are experiencing injustices as we speak."
LTTE killed lot of Tamils including TELO, PLOTE, TULF, EPRLF. I think you should do your research first😅
@@usernameis9157 Of course, those people were killed, and they were Tamils. However, the thirst for justice and independence would have ended long ago if they hadn't done it. You should research why they were killed. It's better to get rid of poison than to let it mix with the milk.
Scattering Tamil people into groups such as TULF, EPRLF, TELO, and PLOTE was India's plan. They did this to prevent Tamils from uniting. India trained each group separately and then led them into fighting each other.
Don't you ever think that this is just about the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE. It's more than that. The people who govern Sri Lanka will have a great impact on India's security and many other fields, so they can't let someone who won't accept their terms get away. They need only those who could be their puppets.
Sri Lanka's importance is well recognized by many nations, but Sri Lanka, we don't know how powerful we are, how we could affect the world. But we had a chance that was destroyed by almost 13 nations.
Ask yourself, why do America, India, and many other countries care about Sri Lanka? Why did they help the Sri Lankan government in the civil war? Don't they know that they are helping with a genocide? Is it because they are saints and want peace in some nation far away from them? No! They know our worth, and here we are fighting about the past and implementing Buddha wherever it's not necessary to disturb peace.
Do you know how much injustice we still have to face under the Sinhala government? We really wish that someone could save us, but we know when that someone emerges from us, there will suddenly appear many governments to implement justice and peace in Sri Lanka.
Do your research, bro!
Haha.. Who is biased ? Ask from your heart ! Typical sympathizers
@@Kaile1789 sympathizer? Have you seen war? Have you seen your relatives get massacred? Have you ever felt like "There's no way for me to live another day, am I going to die?"? I have been through these. and I have asked those exact word to my mom! From your words I understand that you haven't been through such situations and you can't possibly understand.
In this world, only the winner decides who are good and who are bad.
@@Kaile1789 even after all these years they managed to execute their plot and bring our younger generation to waste. (police selling information to criminals just to get some money, soldiers providing illegal drugs to school children(this happened a while ago and I don't know if it still happens) and many more things to say. You have to live with us to understand us.
❤️Life for body and soil for Tamil❤️Tamil's thirst for Tamil Eelam motherland❤️
Ask it from where you belong in now..
THERE IS NO MOTHER LAND TO YOU You can live aa a SRIANKAN or go back to Tamilnadu
I absolutely love your videos, very good videography makes me want to travel again
I hope the Rajapaksas terrorists will be prosecuted and will pay for their crimes!
When looked at impartially, "Sri Lankan history" that's taught in schools is not what really affected the existing generation. It's the history from 1948 up to now that they should be teaching in schools, which still isn't happening because of meddlesome political acts. පුතේ, මල්ලියේ, මචං, මේවා දැකලා පශ්චාත් භාග ගිනි තියාගන්නේ නැතුව ටිකක් විවෘතව හිතලා, අතීතයෙන් අනාගතය ගැන අවබෝධ කරගමු. යුද්ධයක් කියන්නේ බිස්නස් එකක්.
Why should we need to do that ? It doesn't make any good by teaching those things in the schools. Just forget and move.
@@sirimewanudupila3616 Kids in this country would never know the real reasons behind the war. That's why. Knowledge is power. When history repeats, you can take actions calmly.
@@sirimewanudupila3616"Those who doesn't learn from history are doomed to repeat it".
-Winston Churchill, ww2
Lot of people don't understand how important learning history is. It shoulr be mandatory to learn, understand it and making sure it doesn't reoccur again.
If your view is correct and balanced, how you can say only one side as " ruthless " ?
learning more about the war, especially now, makes me draw a LOT of similarities between this and the israel/palestine conflict...
NGO documentry hodata balanna
I was born in Sudan, Africa but my ethnicity is from Eritrea, Africa. I have been in America (west coast), since I was 18.
I am in university studying to be a high school geography/social studies teacher. I always try to think of area of the world that are not of Africa where my ancestors are, or America the culture I have grown up.
When it comes to where Sri Lanka. It seems as if it’s never mentioned because where it is on the map.
This area of the world is where humans turned into two different kinds of people. The people who like Indians and Sri Lanka and then east oriental. Where Myanmar is.
I have never met anybody from Sri Lanka, seen anything about it on the news or anything related to it.
This video taught me a lot and has given me a reason to always remember Sri Lanka. I hope to see it in real life one day.
All happens because US wanted to make Sea base in Hambantota 😅
Create a video about Isreal Palastine war.
Hi ALEX you did a fabulous job. You touched nook and corners and covered balanced content. You are brilliant, knowledgeable guy. Keep doing more.good luck
Unfortunately this video doesn’t show you how LTTE murdered whole villages of Sinhalese barbarically in those days.
Wrong interpretation of the last phase of the war! Compare how the Sri Lanka Govt rescued and rehabilitated the Tamil human hostages of the LTTE in the Mullaitivu pocket, and how the Israeli Govt is treating the Palestinians trapped by the IDF in GAZA !
We cared about the lives of our fellow Tamil citizens held hostage by the LTTE, unlike the Israelis today who seem bent on killing all Palestinians whether they are held hostage by HAMAS or just happen to live in GAZA without being allowed to flee !
Vetrivel, veeravel!
A really great documentary. It is not biased, it’s the utter truth what we still fail to realize. No one won the war, we lost for 33 years. We killed each other because of politicians, Sinhalese & Tamil politicians. If it was not for the politicians we wouldn’t have killed each other. Rest in peace all Srilankans who died in the war.
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ඔයාගේ කුණු සොබාදහමට අයිති නැත.
ඔයගේ කුණු ඔයාම අරන් යන්න.
සෑබැ ශ්රි ලාංකිකයන් සොබාදහම් අරක්ෂකයෝ ය.
உங்கள் குப்பை இயற்கைக்கு சொந்தமானது அல்ல.
உங்கள் சொந்த குப்பையை எடுத்துக் கொள்ளுங்கள்.
அனைத்து இலங்கையர்களும் பாதுகாவலர்கள்.
We should not get divided as Sinhalese,Tamils,Muslims or etc..What we need is peace. Not a war .
He hasn't got any idea about why the civil war started and bias on one sided.
Why did it start
I am not saying SL army used special weapons which hit only LTTE guys with weapons not the civilians. Mentioned attacks could be intentional or unintentional based on ground intelligence received.
But the living feeling was much worst before 2009. We lived in fear that we may endup in a bus/train bomb. So I highly respect Rajapaksha for giving the necessary political leadership and for Fonseka for leading the army till the end. Its because we had leaders who's intention was not end the war rather keep it for their own benefits.
Its doesnt mean I am saying what Rajapaksha's did to journalists, economy are right too. They must be investigated and give punishment. Lasantha's murder was more or less related to revealing MIG deal.
I am pretty sure what Tamil people experienced in north before 2009 was similar fear. But now we live in peace and lets try to keep it and make SL better place for our next generation.
Still Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim politicians use ethnic differences, religions to their own benefits and divide people and rule over them. Hope SL will understand their agendas and live in peace in generations to come.
Thereare also differences between Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamil labourer migrants in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Tamils were amongst the earlier settlers in the North East of the Island nation, after the Veddas people . The Sinhalese came much later around the time of Janapadas. Sri Lankan Tamil kingdoms and Chiefdoms have had a great impact of Sri Lankan history like Jaffna Kingdom . On the contrary , Indian Tamils were of lower caste and also from economically poor and marginalised groups who were brought into Sri Lanka by Brits during Colonial era and mostly settled in Central ,South Western and East coast ,where most of the island's Rubber and Tea plantations were established. Also note that During Black July riots, It were the Indian tamil migrant diaspora ,which suffered the most compared to Sri Lankan Jaffna Tamils and also Most of the Indian Tamil labour diaspora actually supported the JVP over Tamil tigers because of Societal class warfare . Also after JVP was supressed , A large number of Indian tamils were recruited by Sri Lankan army to fight against their Northern brethens, sometimes conscripted at gunpoint if necessary. Later some of these Indian Tamils eventually decided to return back to India.
The statement in question presents a series of historical inaccuracies and oversimplifications regarding the history of Sri Lanka and the distinctions between Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamil laborer migrants. Let's break down the inaccuracies and provide a more accurate historical perspective:
Origins of the Sinhalese: The statement suggests that the Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka much later, around the time of Janapadas. This is not supported by historical evidence. The Sinhalese people are considered one of the indigenous communities of Sri Lanka, with their origins dating back to ancient times. Their historical presence on the island significantly predates the period mentioned.
Indian Tamil Migration: While it is true that there were differences between Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamil laborer migrants, the statement oversimplifies the reasons for Indian Tamil migration to Sri Lanka. Indian Tamil laborers were brought to Sri Lanka by the British colonial authorities during the 19th and early 20th centuries to work on tea and rubber plantations. It's important to note that these laborers came from various backgrounds, including both lower and higher castes, and were not solely from economically poor and marginalized groups.
In providing a more accurate historical perspective, it's essential to consult scholarly works and historical accounts that delve into the complexities of Sri Lanka's history, ethnic relations, and political dynamics. References such as "The History of Sri Lanka" by Patrick Peebles and "The Politics of Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka" by Ambalavaner Sivanandan provide in-depth analyses of these topics, offering a more nuanced understanding of the historical events mentioned in the statement. Additionally, research articles and academic studies on Sri Lankan history and politics can further illuminate these complex issues.
I love how unbias you tell stories. I have no idea who the good guys and bad guys are meant to be, and that is the best way to understand how these things happen in the first place.
It's wise to refrain from discussing topics that aren't well understood. Imagine someone with limited driving experience attempting to speed through a bustling city in a large vehicle - the outcome is easily predictable. Therefore, it's crucial to grasp the truth before expressing opinions about specific matters. It is truly disheartening to observe your inability to unearth the genuine truth obscured beneath the veneer of media narratives and self-proclaimed institutions.
Sir, are you saying no civilian are killed by sla, no rapes were made by sla??? Eagerly waiting for your responce.
@@kumaragurusubramanian581 didnt the ltte do the same? and arent they identified as terrorits?
Ok criminal shut up
@@Wassupbro999it is natural to do that to make your own indipendent country. Sinhalese were invading foreign territory. It is Sinhalese fault
@@boycottnok1466theres no foreign lands in Sri lanka 😂..it was always being a one country its still and in the future too..
There was no civil war in Sri lanka. Civil war means civilians go up against one another based on cast, race etc. what we had in Sri lanka was a terrorist organization vs the government of Sri lanka. More than enough tamil people lived in majority sinhala ruled areas.
Is it Sri Lanka or Shree Lanka? Enquiring minds want to know.
Spelled SHREE but written as Sri, common in South East Asian cultures.
Shitlanka/ Shitalese
@@cameronpillay8050 🤣 you can say that too, everyone with brains are just leaving, the proper way not the "Ohhh my family is being killed way", and we are not forced to come back. Elam and shitpora made it difficult for anyone with proper requirements leave. They made a bad image of shitlanka overseas.
@@cameronpillay8050 Non Human
This series must definitely be a syllabus material for the Sri Lankan education system!
Donno what to learn though, we won nothing, we only lost, yeah it's a good suggestion to include this to students' books, but the expected outcome of that should be really evaluated.
You’ll be surprised how many locals know about the true story and the sinister war crimes gov/army committed. Mainstream media is so centralized all we saw was how bravely our army has ended a war, hiding all the dark secrets behind.
Yeah.Cultural understand and Learn English,Sinhala and Tamil
You have to research more into the root cause of the civil war.
In Sri Lanka both Sinhalese and Tamils have two different versions of history. Because of this, both Sinhalese and Tamils cannot reconcile with the nature of the state.
The reason is the spill over of Dravidian Ideology from TN.
Exactly
I don't understand the need of people to divulge in history so much. US has a very short history and is the beat country in the world. That is why education is more important than religions.
History has nothing to do with this matter. 2000 yrs ago the whole Sri Lanka was ruled under a one king, Including Jaffna peninsula. According to the Vallipuram gold inscription found from Jaffana 1940s, It was clearly proven using both archeological & written evidences. No matter whts the history. What matters the most is the harmony between different ethnicities under a one flag & one nation.
An example of getting punished for their sins is now Sri Lanka's economic collapse and the food crisis.
"Karma is like a boomerang. Good or bad, what you put out into the universe will be given back to you." 🙏🐯
I see.. Thats why whether you are Tamil or Muslim or Sinhalese all suffering now?
fuckabaran
😂Huh We as Sri Lankans kicked our President off from his seat.
Do you really think we are still Divided
Yep 2 million families in under poverty line. That include all district and all ethnicity
The Tamils,who were the minority ,fought genuinely for their rights and got branded as "terrorists". Smh