I just can't believe the level of quality here, how the hell this channel hasn't exploded yet is beyond me. Your story telling and the fluidity between focusing on different topics such as going from something light like the cricket to something heavier explaining the beginnings of the ethnic conflict works so perfectly and seamlessly. Definitely the most inspiring UA-camr I've seen for a long time
I am a Sri Lankan and watching this video made me realize more about the connections in history compared to the mainstream education provided in Sri Lanka. Like many other places, it seems history has been twisted to accommodate the social structures prevailing today. Thank you for this insightful video
Nice work 👏...Realise ourselves... Geopolitics is the key to disabled the power house....by doing that srilanka could be under foreign powers all the time, that would allow them to carry on their Trade,Global supply, and strategically safest spots for many western and Eastern countries... Still srilanka is one of the important country in Geopolitical Terms...
Rubbish. There is no such insight here. The video is produced with the intentions of sugercoating old and new versions of economic, cultural and political colonialism. A project Anglo British culture intiated long long time ago in order to ensure the long term spread and survival of the said culture, and they have succeeded so far, for better or worse, because that's how the human social animal function when it comes to our true behaviour.
@@Lost_in_Contextyour vedios are interesting. I was a student of a buddhist school found by olcott in Sri Lanka,Dharmaraja College Kandy(Dharmaraja is a synonym for buddha)
@@Lost_in_Contexthey,sinhalese nation was not found by self-exiled vijaya.We are descendents of tribes like yakkha,naga,deva and King Ravana in ramayana.Balangoda home sapien is our ancestors
Sri Lankan here.. This series is very well put together and insightful. You've even captured some of the nuances of the life and atmosphere here.. Well done,. and thanks.. I look forward to further videos down the line!
Btw, this is by far the most in depth and informative channel on not just Sri Lanka but Tajikistan. I only just found this channel within the last week and it’s my “go to”. Makes me want to visit these places. Thanks so much! Keep up the AMAZING work mate! I’ll be watching the rest of your vids 👍🤙
Your videos are different from other geopolitical channels that I watch on UA-cam. Yours bear a sense of closeness while presenting the ground reality without being biased.
I haven't seen any 'Sri Lankan' explain the fundamental issue in this country so well. I need to emphasize that the racial division has lead to the civil war and thousands of casualties along with economic damages. But it has done more damage to the country by keeping the corrupted politicians in the power. Until all sinhales, tamils and muslims comes to a true reconciliation I don't think Sri Lanka will ever be the country that it really capable of.
Thanks so much for your comment! It is absolutely fascinating to think about the direction that Sri Lanka could go in now. It could be an opportunity post-Rajapaksa, but will Sri Lanka take it?
@@Lost_in_Context it doesn't look like that at the moment. You know that there is a certain group of people, elite people in countries like Sri Lanka that want to keep the things as it is so that they can continue whatever they were doing. This people's moment was a big blow for them. Yes they got a step back aroun May-July. But with the appointment of Ranil W as the pres they have slowly building up their authority again. We see huge repression against the activists in the peoples movement, media campaigns to change the people's mind set and build bad picture on people's movement, attempts to delay any elections these days. There will be 10 time hard economic crisis around this march than 2022 march. They are getting ready for that. Thing is Rajapakshas, Ranil Ws are the people run this elite class. These politicians give the required protection and the elite group provide the financial power. This is the cycle that causing all these issues. This racial division is just a tool that they use and with the stupidity of the most of the Sri Lankans its a very effective tool. Until the majority of the people realize this there is no hope for this country. In my estimation on 20-30% population are in this people's movement. That's not good enough to turn the country upside down which is exactly what SL required. Btw half of that people who seeked a change now have left the country since there is no hope staying here.
@@Lost_in_ContextIt's not just the ethnic conflicts that made Sri Lanka to this present day situation. People are trying to make it look like it's the main cause. The politicians that are Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim are responsible for the downfall of our country. Each had their own agenda and didn't care about the country or her people. Especially business owners, government officials were so corrupted and blame only the Rajapakses. Corruption have been happening since 1947. Majority SRI LANKANS do not change their foreign currency in banks, but from private business owners, because they offer more for your dollar. Where do the money go? To their foreign bank accounts. So first of all the govt should put restrictions on that. Corruption should stop from ground up. Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims here and living abroad were able to bring Sri Lanka to the present state of chaos, and pointing fingers to others.
@@Lost_in_Context I'm not really knowledgeable in the political world but from my observation. The government has always tried to incite racial conflict but thank God nothing serious ever came from it. We Malaysians have probably learn from our past history. Back in 1969 May 13, there was a huge fight between the Chinese and Malays right after the general elections. Hundreds were dead in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. I won't go into the details but the incident is still classified till this day. Rumor has it that UMNO was the one that stir the conflict because they lost a lot of seats in the capital. Anyway with our new Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim currently, I believe Malaysia is in good hands.
@@alexfzg9936 very interesting to hear about it, and a few years ago I would never have guessed that Anura Ibrahim would have made it to prime minister. I wish you guys all the best!
I'm a Malaysian 🇲🇾 of Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 descent and can tell you that both countries are stuck in a rut because of government policies that favour the ethnic and religious majorities, i.e. Malay Muslims ☪️ and Sinhalese Buddhists ☸️
Tamil people were never enemies historically, Chola empires had an enemity with Sri Lanka and other "indian" Tamil people like Chera and pandyans, Who happened to be allies of Sinhalese depending on their ruler. What caused the war was how British tried to separate major two ethnicities like how it is in Burma. And as a Sinhalese i believe that certain politicians will use the negative sinhala Buddhist nationalism(almost feels like a twisted version of christian culture of Europe simply localized.) And Sinhalese Royalty had always had intermarriages with Chera and pandyan tamils from India. But this doesn't mean today everything is all hunky Dory with our races its simply a battle with the good and bad. There are bad and good tamil/sinhala/muslim politicians. Bad and good priests and bad and good military personnel. Its just a very human story about people who will sacrifice many things for peace and those who will be greedy.
Indeed! Well explained. The author has stepped into an area he has very little knowledge about the recent or past history. Branding Dharmapala as a xenophobic, Sinhala racist is pure ignorance, if not fueled by vested interests. Dharmapala was a product of his time, the same way colonials, Tamil and Sinhala privileged politicians had created Prabhakaran. The only difference between Prabhakaran and Dharmapala are the biggest differences in the opposite direction. Prabhakaran was a dedicated, ignorant and stupid megalomaniac. Dharmapala employed the tactics of modern western liberal culture to attack cultural and economic colonialism. A far cry from what colonials did in this island and what the LTTE did.
Alex, this is a really impressive series (which I stumbled upon completely randomly!). As someone whose roots are forged from this ethnic fault line, I have learnt so much from your videos and have enjoyed your unpacking of the history. Not sure if you have a way of receiving DMs/emails, but I’d love to share some more thoughts and ask some questions. You have a new subscriber :) KM x
Hi thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I really appreciate it. I'm not actually sure about messaging, I know that used to be a feature but I don't see if that is possible now. I was looking at your profile to see if its possible and I saw you had a Soundcloud, I can message you on there?
What a smooth flow , you have maintained throughout. You have done your homework before coming to Sri Lanka. On history, Geography, ethnicity, religion and global political scenario and a lot you have covered with brilliance. A true journalism and unbiased viewpoint of a foreigner (foreigners normally tend to be biased due to the associates and story tellers in English and therefore the picture presented becomes corrupted). Admire your effort. This episode is worthwhile watching a few more times as it gives a perspective of an objective analyzer and has gone deep in to the facts with our waging an emotional war within. Thanks!
You should tag the location as Sri Lanka, then you might have gotten a lot more views for these videos as well. Quite an interesting to watch. Thank you for making them.
I think it was engineered by none other than S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike a former PM for his own personal gain. effects of which the people of Sri Lanka still suffer from. you should do a video on him.
Sinhala only act created conflicts among Sinhalese and Tamils true. But this act affected mostly Sinhalese as only Tamils, Muslims and Burgers were allowed to study in English medium. So the Sihalese were unable to secure highly paid jobs. Ceylon was called "Asia's Treasury " in her Golden Era. But due to J.Rs corrupted open economy ruined Sri Lankan's local companies like DASA, Velona, Hirdramanis, Vilasitha Nivasa which boosted Sri Lankan local goods. JR helped his business lobysts prosper by letting them export foreign goods. Dasa mudalali who brought the department store concept selling all Sri Lankan goods, and Velona and Vilasitha nivasa selling all made in Sri Lanka textiles and clothing couldn't compete with Majestic City foreign goods. Who owned most businesses in Sri Lanka ? Tamils and Muslims. Dasa mudalali the only Sinhalese entrepreneur was thrown to the curbs. Even the paddy farmers, and farmers who produce vegetables, onions, coconut were thrown to the curbs. Now the main exporters of coconut products overseas is Thailand and Phillipines. The propagandists say Coconut is a superfood now. All foreign currencies are given a high exchange rates by jewellry shop owners in Sri Lanka, and they promote it to the tourists who come to Sri Lanka. All Sri Lankans, including Sinhalese, tamils, Muslims and foreigners that come to Sri Lanka do not exchange their currency in banks. Hence the shortage of foreign currency in Sri Lanka. So in my opinion the downfall of our nation is due to Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim politicians, business owners, government officials, and a percentage of citizens. Once a Prosperous country now have to export rice, even onios from India, thus affecting our local farmers. So sad to say bringing Sri Lanka down to her knees is not the fault of one ethnic community, it's a team effort by the Sinhalese, Tamils and muslims.Vultures are waiting for a perfect opportunity to have a piece of our beautiful land.
Discovered your channel thru the Tajikistan n Uzbekistan videos. I really really appreciate is the nuanced take you bring to the table. Honestly the best discovery in a long time. Hope for some content on Pakistan eventually, and if you plan on travelling, I'd be happy to help in whatever way I can.
Just discovered your channel, its amazing...I binge watched the Guyana series, and here I am. Such a beautiful way you tell stories about people. I had to laugh at you as a Kiwi supporting anyone but Aussies😂. I love cricket too❤ Thank you for your lovely brand of travel journalism.
Keep up the good work! One day your channel needs to explode. Political leaders always use ethnicity as leverage in Sri Lanka even right up to this moment. The sinhala only act is the worst that's ever been done.
The Sinhala only act actually affected the Sinhalese the most. After the Sinhala only act the Muslims, Tamils and Burghers were allowed to study in English medium in Schools but not the Sinhalese.Thus producing majority Sinhalese youth getting out of schools and universities without fluency in English. They had a hard time securing jobs even with a university degree. Rich including the Bandaranayakes sent their children to private schools, UK and other western countries and private tutors.The govt company that I worked at had two peons who were degree holders from Peradeniya campus, because they couldn't speak or write in English. I felt so bad as they were making tea and distributing mail in the office.
Bro Buddhism was diluted by the colonials( Portuguese Dutch and Brit ) using a systemic discrimination that favored the Converts and nearly extinguished. it had to be reestablished by importing priests from Thailand an Burma. So yes you do tell a part of the story truthfully but ignore far more important pieces.
I found this channel by chance, it is an excellent channel which produces quality content. Thank you Alex. I hope one day you will make video about Bengalis.
According to Wikipedia The early form of the Sinhala language is attested as early as the 3rd century BCE. of course it is over 2000 years old, but The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from c. 300 BC until AD 300. It has the oldest extant literature among Dravidian languages. Tamil was well developed even before a single word of Sinhala existed. and also Tamils were closer to Sri Lanka and at the time people could even walk to Sri Lanka over Adam's Bridge. The early form of the Sinhala language is attested as early as the 3rd century BCE. The language of these inscriptions with long vowels and aspirated consonants is a Prakrit similar to Magadhi, a regional associate of the Middle Indian Prakrits that has been used during the time of the Buddha. did you notice the word "Regional associate of the MIDDLE INDIAN Prakrits"? Tamils have a history of ruling even far away lands, including Sri Lanka too: i.e: Southeast Asia: Tamil traders and maritime activities influenced various Southeast Asian regions, including present-day Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The Chola dynasty, in particular, had strong maritime connections and established trade links with these regions. Tamil inscriptions and artifacts have been found in Southeast Asian countries, indicating their historical presence and influence. Sri Lanka: While not a faraway land in the strictest sense, the Tamil Chola dynasty exerted control and influence over parts of Sri Lanka during certain periods of history. The Cholas, for example, invaded and ruled parts of Sri Lanka in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. Maldives: The Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, had interactions with Tamil traders and occasionally came under the influence of Tamil dynasties like the Cholas and the Pandya dynasty. Tamil inscriptions have been discovered on some of the Maldivian islands. Sumatra and Java: Tamil traders and cultural influences are believed to have reached Sumatra and Java, in present-day Indonesia. The inscriptions and artifacts discovered in these regions suggest the presence of Tamil influence. Philippines: While not under direct Tamil rule, there is evidence of Tamil trade and cultural influence in the Philippines during ancient times. The presence of Tamil inscriptions and artifacts has been found in certain areas. These examples shows that Tamils have already explored more nations in the early stages of history. I am not saying that we should rule the country. I am just asking a simple question. "If you (Sinhala politicians) are so sure about the country's history, why destroy the historical artifacts which are related to Tamil people? If what you say is true those artifacts will only prove it and make your point much stronger!
Sri Lanka has few options: A) Ethnic cleansing of Tamil (not recommended). Bhutan and Myanmar did that already, btw. Just saying. B) Sri Lanka had choosen this. Traumatized the shet out of the Tamils. Reduced the Tamils' power. Softly tell them to move out. C) Learn from Chechen Republic (Russia) and XUAR (PRC). Not perfect but whole lot better. D) Learn from Singapore. Its working language is English, so that Chinese, Malays, Indians can be chill (aka stability), without favouring any race. You can learn whatever languages you want after school. Encourage to intermingling thru "housing system". Bhutan was allowed to do it bcoz Bhutan is a "friend" to India and The Five Eyes. Yup, they supported it, indirectly. Tamil Sri Lankans simply have no leverage. It was a lost cause from the start. I'm Chinese Malaysian. In high school, we and Indians had an unofficial pact to defence ourselves against Malay (school bullying stuff). Some Chinese Malaysian gangs (like real gangster, underground stuff) worked with Indian Malaysian gangs. And that was 20 years ago. Things could be different now. Tamils are the majority of Indian Malaysians. One of my Indian friends has an English name and probably Christian. And when they speak to each other, they speak in English due to language barrier. One of the few things that I noticed back then, as my English named Indian Malaysian friend explained to me.
I got an itch to look up the LTTE - I think i fell into the rabbit hoe by reading up on separatist movements recently. Found your channel. Really good stuff. I wish I'd have come up with it when I was in college, also studying history, political science and the like. A quick scan shows you have videos on Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Guatemala. Good on you for researching and putting together updated analysis on these regions that don't get as much sunshine as others.
Hi, I hope you see this comment! I really love your videos and I want your channel to reach the kind of success you're looking for! I've always been very interested in the history of my country. I would say I know quite alot compared to most kids. But your videos have alot of content I can't find in any srilankan history text book. Things like the tooth relic allegedly being destroyed by the Portuguese, The influence of the North Korean embassy, Ceylon being the second wealthiest nation in Asia, ect. I feel like schools and SL MSM are gatekeeping alot that there is to know. I would love to read the books you've read ! Can you please give me the names of the books and the sources you got your knowledge of srilanka from? PLEASE ❤
I was actually in Ceylon in the 1950s... Before the British Colonial Administration left, the hierarchy in Sri Lanka was:- English people > Irish, Scottish, Welsh > Burghers > Malays > Tamil Anglican Christians > Sinhalese Anglican Christians > Tamil Hindus > Muslims > Sinhalese Buddhists > Indian Tamils. Tamils in general were favoured. It was classic divide and rule. This meant 'uplifting' the Ceylonese Tamils over the majority Sinhalese. The main reason for the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka can be traced to 1944, when the Unified Tamil Political Party asked the British Governor to set the Constitution up so that the Sinhalese would only be allowed 50% of the seats in Parliament, even though they were around 75% of the population. The Governor had rejected this. But obviously this pissed off the Sinhalese.
@@nilax21 Go back and check the Ceylon census from 1939. The Sinhalese were 72%. It wasn't 55% Sinhalese - 45% Minorities. Indian Tamils were roughly 8% of the population. This was cut down to 4% in 1949, after about 50% of Indian Tamils were sent to India. Either way, what was playing out that time, was that the Ceylonese Tamils were trying to keep the privileges that we had given them during our rule of Ceylon, even by distorting the concept of democracy and this backfired really far up their backsides.
Ceylon Tamils definitely wanted too much. They, along with the Sinhalas, denied the Indian Tamils universal suffrage. Ceylon Tamils then used the pogroms against Indian Tamils as a pretext for war.
Tamils are native to Srilanka and India. Indian Tamils and Srilankan Tamils share a similar culture. The frequent trades have been happening for more than 5000 years through the sea. Archaeological evidence of megalithic burial sites in Sri Lanka that are similar to those found in Tamil Nadu, India, and date back to the 5th century BCE. Ceramic sequences similar to those found at Arikamedu, an ancient Tamil port city in India, have been found at Kandarodai (Kadiramalai) on the north coast of Sri Lanka, dating back to 1300 BCE. Cultural similarities in burial practices in South India and Sri Lanka have been dated by archaeologists to the 10th century BCE.
Bro you're so good at what you do the professional the nitty gritty details and the well researched facts you present, it's such high quality content i hope you will come to Pakistan in future
This is a great video, but it's definitely written and told from a white perspective! It's lacking a little nuance I feel, would love to do a collab sometime. Definitely like your editing style :) I'm half Sinhalese and half Tamil!
I appreciate the sharing of your exultation at the opportunity to settle into a match of test cricket. I get the rules, but not the appeal. Happy to be informed.
A couple people in the photo at 3:00 look East Asian; do you know who they are? I don't know much about Sri Lanka's ethnic groups (only what you've said in these videos); do some of the people look like that?
The American Mission to Ceylon was established following the war of 1812. The Buddhist sangha banned it from Sinhalese areas. It was exceptionally well resourced.
Thank you for this documentary. This history is not being taught at Sri Lankan schools even though it should be. In Sri Lanka, Dharmapala is considered as a national hero even though he was racist.
If the Sinhala language ACT had not been imposed, Sri Lanka could have been one of the wealthiest countries in Asia with the support of the educated Tamils. However, racial discrimination and the suppression of Tamil rights led to suffering and unrest, including government corruption and financial crisis. If the government had acted more responsibly in the 1950s, it is possible that the current generation would be living in harmony with all communities.
BS.... the same educated Tamils u mentioned above gave their vote to remove citizenship from "Indian Tamils"... I mean the Tamils (mainly the so called "vellala" group) in Jaffna literary discriminated against their own in a big way which still exist to this day.... u cant see that in other groups like Sinhalese, Muslims and etc..
@පැරකුම්බා The Vellalar caste has undergone significant changes in recent years, particularly during and after the LTTE era. Intercaste marriages have become more common, and attitudes towards them have become more accepting. Additionally, there has been a shift in the beliefs and actions of some educated Tamils, who previously supported the government until they were thrown out by the sinhalese chauvinism.
Also for the part where u say that Sri Lankan tamils don't support the SL team, you are wrong. Read VOC by Sarah Kabhir ,here you will say how a former LTTE cadet says how they cheared the SL team when they were winning the World Cup(While the SL army was very actively bombing the LTTE areas and LTTE vice versa). The stories in Sri Lanka can make you cry,you will not believe the things you will hear as a Sri Lankan. It is definitely not what the western or even indian media want the world to believe. And things like the Sinhala Only act there is many debates how this was instigated with the Indian politics in the then Sri Lanka.
Yeah, I said up north specifically the team isn't quite as popular, which is something I've read and heard from travelling there, not that they don't support them at all
@@Lost_in_Context that's news for me man,cuz when i found out the LTTE cheared for them ,i thought it must mean they know well enough about the SL cricket team. Maybe it's the new SL team. Even in the south the new team is not really appreciated cuz there is not much to be excited about them other than a few players.
@@szoom6066The reason why civil war and ethnic clenching in first places because of discrimination in every sector since independence . Not alone cricket. This video didn't tell real history basically 80est made up text book story of the government.
@@Lost_in_Context The real reason of civil war erupted? you didn't mention discrimination in every sector, not only cricket What happend? Tamils living Srilanka 5000years and Hinduism all over the Island from Ravanan Era.
Oh poor tamils , anyone can write their opinion in a paper lol😅 always you people seeing the world from your side! My father would still alive if your nation wouldn’t exist in this world.
Tamils and Sinhalese are siblings. But Rajapakse family, Bandaranaike Nayake, sirisena, ranil wikramasinke etc are not Sri Lankans, they are Telungu nayakars ,they came to srilanka from India, they are the real enemies of tamils. People who followed Shivam they speak Tamil, people who followed Buddhism who speak Sinhalese ( Tamil mixed with Pali to form Sinhalese )
I really liked how you mentioned Olcott and Theosophy in your explanation. I have been researching on the connections between occultism and nationalism and broadly about extreme political ideologies. In the context of Sri Lanka, it just strikes me how Buddhism is the result of a socio-cultural set up by on European main strand of mainstream occultism. Nationalism is in my opinion the real globalist strand of political ideology. In the case of Sri Lanka it shows perfectly, mainly by its destructive effects: a wonderful island destroyed
Good Info Alex...thumbs up . But It would be better if you have done more indepth research on the Tamils side. Definitely its not 700 yrs , 7000 maybe Yes / Btw , whats your secret of fitness? Rowing?
Yes Tamils live along with Sinhalese in north until few Tamils kings come chase away all the Sinhalese population .if you look all the city names in the north of country .like Jaffna and other cities ,everything has a Sinhala prakit origin
I lived in sri lanka all my life!!am 42 yers old!!i know & witnessed what happened. Tamil tinges were terrorists.(thats why they were banned in many countries)they were always planning attacks from and among civilians. (garilla techniques)by doing that they used the civilians as a shield. and use the civilian casualties to bad mouth S.L army. of Couse sri lanka is the mother land of singhalese. yet every one was living peacefully. war was planted by the external forces. (prabakaran played the Villon's character. only he didn't know how the story ended.) just that country held back from its economic growth due to this. whole of india, south east asia grabed all our opportunities during that 30 yers. now they are all ahead of us. Every body needs a piece of sri lnka given its geo political location. best way do it is to paralyze the country by triggering internal conflicts, promote corruption via greedy politicians) now we are a bankrupt country. now those vultures can have a piece of this.
Henry Steel Olcott is a national hero of Sri Lanka. Most Sri Lankas may not know or appreciate his contribution to save Buddhism and Buddhist education. He was instrumental in founding many schools in Sri Lanka appropriately called Olcott schools. It is however unbefitting to therefore call him "this guy" in your narration. We Sri Lankans still bow to this great man.
Before portuguese came , those Costal places were filled with sinhalese villages it was a part of kingdom of kandy, 90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was Brought here by portuguese , dutch , british to costal aria to work as slave workers time to time from india, for various slave purposes (before they were lower cast tamils in india , Sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers then immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from south india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were always fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐 and read old portuguese , dutch colonial records 26 years of civil war was created by Tamil Cast system and British , dutch and portuguese 500 years of colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese.
15:28 In 1948, it was easy to predict that. South Korea and Singapore were nothing, really and wouldn't get going till the 1960s and 1970s respectively.
Anagarika Dharmapala is a national hero. He is a prominent figure in the struggle for independence. But some of his actions might have contributed for the ethnic problems to follow
Promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination for enjoying the nature and culture by all means. However, refrain from passing false judgements on guys like Dharmpala as a xenophobe. He was nothing of the kind. Dharmapala's choice of words and phrases were to address the lethargic, politically illiterate Sinhala people in that certain era of colonialism in Ceylon. Dharmpala took on a mission that was too big for him and eventually, more or less abandoned it when he started noticing the exploitation of his work(or the results of his work being below his expectations). Perhaps, he would've come to a realization that according to the Buddhist world view, both Sinhala as well as Buddhism(as an organized religion) will eventually vanish from this planet, as everything will, including humans.
You dis not talk of strategic netholigy used by the European christian missionaries to destroy aboth Buddhism and Hinduism. That backfired unlike in the Philippines the Buddhists countered the direct forceful conversions and insentivised conversions ,
16:16 In 1928 Nathan Rothchilld brought millions of indian tamils from india to work His tea plantation Lands(where in 1818 british had massacred and eliminated millions sinhalese and burnt millions of sinhalese villages from upcountry Completely Erased sinhalese Identity of upcountry ) , and those plantation workers are not only tamil they were malabarians and telugus people and all that plantation money went to England and Nathan Rothchilld and why didn't Nath Rothchilld or britain take all those indian lower cast(sakkiliyar ) slaves to England or Germany ,didn't give anyone to citizenship of England 🤔
@@abenathan959 Before portuguese came , those Costal places were filled with sinhalese villages it was a part of kingdom of kandy, 90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was Brought here by portuguese , dutch , british to costal aria to work as slave workers time to time from india, for various slave purposes (before they were lower cast tamils in india , Sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers then immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from south india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were always fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐 and read old portuguese , dutch colonial records 26 years of civil war was created by Tamil Cast system and British , dutch and portuguese 500 years of colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese.
@@john_____yeah yeah sure my family was in Ceylon for centuries you’ve got no right to claim the whole island for yourselves Tamils were in the north and east since forever
Reasonably balanced. But it is not possible for a researcher to find the true factors of a history from alone the books. Many factors are there that have not found their way into the books. 1 In the ancient SL, lands could not have been owned by persons; not the States as well. Like air or water land was a public property. 2 In the ancient SL crown could not have been owned by a race or family as opposed to Europe or Indian subcontinent. 3 Anyone doing the right thing was accepted as their king by the people. That’s why we have had kings belonging to different races or nationalities. Even the commoners have become kings. This tradition ensured the harmony among many ethnic groups for thousands of years. Ethnic conflicts were unheard of this country until 1915. (Tamil literature such as Yalpana Vaipava Malai mentioned that Tamil rulers in Jaffna drew away all the Sinhalese from their territory, but Fr. Queyroz fairly disproved such stories) 4 It was the Catholic and Christian churches that introduced the ethnic divisions into this country. Northern areas were the most vulnerable part of the country when these priests arrived in SL. And North was the most fertile land for their missionary activities. In order to prevent their converts leaving the Belief, prevent them getting contaminated by the southern enemies of the Belief, the priests taught the converted Tamils that they were of a superior class than the unconverted Sinhalese. That’s how the ethnic divisions found their way into our country. Even Fr. Queyroz stated repeatedly that the Sinhalese were inconvertible and if converted they betrayed the Belief at the first chance they got. Priests loved Northern areas and called them the “Gods vineyards “. Priests introduced the ethnic divisions in order to protect their converts. 5 Anagarika Dharmapala was just a representative, not a creator of rifts. His words were harsh. But he was not against the other ethnicities.
NZ would do well to take note of what happened in Sri Lanka and stop this nonsense of “co-governance” and going down the path of dividing society through ethnicity. We will turn into a banana republic as well…ruled by selfish serving bureaucrats and elites. Watch this space
Great introduction video on the conflict. Notice how colonizers end up destroying every place once they leave. The destruction and conflict goes on for generations afterwards. It's almost as if the seeds of post-colonial conflict are planted upon the arrival of the colonizers.
Root cause was Sinhala only policy bought In as Legislation in the 1960's. Led to Outlawing of Educated Tamils who were Good in Technical skills and English. Lesson for Parochial Language policies in India too
11:00 Oh, give me a freaking break. The Yanks took cricket, made it their own and a whole new game, the finest game ever devised by man. MLB is a 162-game long season of baseball.
How come all the oldest inscriptions are in Tamil, in Trinco you can find Tamil inscriptions which are from BC, Trinco used to be the Tamil capital even during BC. The pancha Eeswarams existed even 3000 yrs back, at that time no such thing as Sinhala, only Tamils and vedar.
@@tamilpatriot7815 don't lie and distort not a single inscription in Sri Lanka in Tamil found by British or anyone in Tamilmor even equal to to Tamil🤣🤣🤣🤩
@@warsil3735 Broken potteries were discovered with Tamil Brahmi writings which go as back as 3000 yrs. Words like marumahan, marumahal, parumahan...etc with prakrit pronounciation. Research about Trincomalee. Also coins were discovered in the island with Tamil names on them which are from BC, you can google and see. Know anything about Ibankatuba burial site? Practice of the Tamils. Learn about pancha Eeswarams. Learn what Arjun Guneratne concluded? Your Ammey came from our Amma, Ayya is a tamil word, also akka, thaatha, sahothara... why are you using tamil words to refer to your relations? What's the connections?
Jaffna Kingdom from 2nd century king Sangili 1 and Vanni Kingdom roled by king Bandaravannyan . You didn't talk any thing about it, try to avoid real Tamils history or original history
@@Lost_in_Context you may not ignore, but you can't changed every videos the foundation of history such as years, times , religion language of the history, definitely it happened in this video 🙂
@@derekperera3501 first and for most find your history, Do you know where is you ancestors from check out Perera is Portuguese name I am sure king Sangiliyan and king Bandaravannyan had beaten several of your ancestors. Some ran to India some die and buried. For sure Jaffna Kingdom and Vanni kingdom has rich culture and values Portuguese came ,disroyed all Hindu temple from India to Srilanka and stole asked tax. Perera can you find what part of Portugal you are from because there is Island in the country poor not even know the letter s left for better life.
Get to know you and you ancestors when they came to Sri Lanka then only you can ask them who had been lived this country. I am sure king Sangili 1,2,3,and king 🤴 bandaravanniyan had beaten several of your ancestors some of them ran to India and die.🙂
Of course I am Tamilian was born and raised in kandy but my parents from northern province . Did spend so much money & time for freedom I am not young anymore & hand over to young generation it is up to them
This video, for instance, is exactly the reason why Eelam Tamils in particular need to make their own history-related videos or gather information about the conflict. This UA-camr is not only whitewashing the conflict; he also spreads lies like the one that, before the war, Jaffna was 50% Sinhalese in his other youtube videos. The Tamils living in the foreign land are well settled, and they are not going to return to their ancestral land unless there is a Black July on those continents, which is highly improbable. So, as usual, the Eelam Tamils will never create or do anything to defend their history. On the other side, the Sinhalese are well educated-only politically when compared to the Tamils-and they are doing their best to tame and create a fake history about the Eelam War that is favourable to them while glorifying and whitewashing their genocide against Eelam Tamils. This video is created with some sort of agenda in mocking Eelam Tamils. There are 7 videos like this in this paid propaganda channel. This video clearly looks like a well-paid one because he concentrates on and contains the Tamil's struggle within child soldiers and suicide bombers (Eelam Tamil's Self-benefactors), whereas he glorifies the Sri Lankan military and its invasion and occupation of the Tamils' homeland, i.e., Tamil Eelam. The sources he used were written by Sri Lanka supporters and those who were in its favour. They are not neutral sources. As it's a video glorifying the Sinhalese victory over the Eelam Tamils and taming our freedom struggle as terrorism, as usual, the comment section is filled with Sinhalese who are appreciating and praising the video and the maker, who did this for money. Mark my words: sooner this video will be widespread, and the foreign-born Eelam Tamils will promote it and learn their history through it. Even now, I could clearly see some Tamils in the comment section appreciating this video. But I'm not sure 100% they are Tamils, because even Sinhalese with a fake Tamil name could comment like Tamils appreciated this video. This will result in our own future generations spitting up their own authentic, brave history because of the laziness and unwillingness of the present Eelam Tamil generation. Not only Eelam Tamil people but also everyone in the world will learn about our struggle for independence through this video, because it was created by a white man - without knowing that this was fake propaganda! Until we create a video about our history, this video must be reported or disliked in large numbers. Even if it is created, it will not be appreciated by our own nation and may sometimes be reported by our own people. i.e. paramilitary groups like EPDP, TMVP supporters and members and Colombo mixed Tamils. That's the unrest with the Eelam Tamils
No offense, but the north of Sri Lanka was historically the homeland of the Sinhalese. The Sinhalese lost control of the region only in and since 1215 due to the genocidal invasion by Kalinga Magha. The Sinhalese never reclaimed or retook the north because, after the fall of the Sinhalese kingdom, Dravidians established a kingdom for themselves in the north, known as the 'Vanniar Kingdom.' When the British arrived in the 1790s, the north was predominantly Dravidian, while the south was predominantly Sinhalese.
Just to be clear. Your history is wrong from the outset. Nobody really knows who was on the Island first for certain and it does not matter. But for the record Tamils were more likely on the Island first. Sinhalese migrated from the North, Tamils from the SOuth. Sri lankan archaelogists themselves have confirmed that Tamils were probably their first. Generally on an Island the minority were there first - Jews, Aboriginies, Maories etc. Tamil is an older language than Sinhalese. Hinduism is older than Buddhism. The Sinhalese were originally Buddhist fgs - a known fact. You have not mentioned the Mahavasama - which really caused the racial conflict. The Ramayana itself referenced Sri lanka and this book predates a lot of what you said. The Ramanya itself is a good proof that Tamils were there a lot sooner than you mention and probably the original inhabitants. The root cause of this conflict initially was nothing to do with Religion for the MOST part. It was the fault of the British who favoured the Tamils. The Tamils and Sinhalese got along fine for the most part. The British messed everything up. Dharmapala - nothing to do with the conflict. It was the ethnic minority being favoured and outperforming the majority which sowed the seeds of resentment and caused the war. Period. This video is so off.
The downfall of Sri Lanka is due to her own corrupted Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim politicians and civilians. The majority of hardworking people lived their lives harmoniously minding getting about their business. The real situation in Sri Lanka should be narrated by an unbiased Sri Lankan.
Buddisham brought up from India in 4th century. There is a tree branch brought up that is the symbol. You basically talking about the root of the Civil War creation ,
This dude doesn't know what he's talking about. North wasn't a Tamil state before. There was Sinhalese in the North. However, due to invasions from South India, Sinhalese had to fled the Northern regions to stay alive. It's like the situation in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine many times during the history and killed Ethnic Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine. Then populated those areas with Ethnic Russians which carried from rural areas of Russia. Then in 2014, Russia called Crimea as a Russian territory. Then in 2022, Eastern and Southern Ukraine as Russia. Why? Because the majority of the population was Russians. But the truth is, it was forcefully populated by the invaders over the centuries! Sri Lanka was governed by Portuguese and Dutch before British. Before them, there were kingdoms which were fighting with each other. There were many invasions from South India before the arrival of damn westerners who are trying to teach history to us. A s a result, there were Tamil Royals who received pardon from Sinhalese kings lived in Jaffna. As the Sinhalese kings fights each other, those Tamil royals betrayed Sinhalese kings and started a kingdom in Jaffna. That's how Tamils started to live in Jaffna with a Kingdom. Now this %%^%^ a$$ is trying to tell a $h!tty story which has no evidences. He's probably referred to some websites or books published by LTTE Terrorist diaspora who living in Europe by fooling decaying westerners which funded Terrorism and Child soldiers.
Im sorry, how come nobody told me someone involved with investigating the assassination of lincoln became a majorly influential religous leader and who indirectly helped set the conflict that sparked the sri lanka because of whi he had as a translator
As sri Lankan it is a great documentary but i hope you could change the heading because i never experienced discrimination for religion my whole life all these ethnicity conflict is derived from politicians to gain more votes i have met many English,sinhala,Tamil speaking people but they are all nice as for why I said such is because i don't know their religion because i didn't care to ask they don't either i have never seen anyone going around asking other peoples religion because it awkward and hilarious 😂😂😂
Great white explaining lol! The modern conflict between the Tamils and Sinhalese is due solely to British colonialism and the system’s preferential treatment of the Tamils. This can be seen in Africa with the ethnic tensions between Indians and Africans, and Malaysia with the ethnic Chinese and Indians with the Malays. Buddhist Sinhalese have mostly lived in harmony with the Tamils throughout history with the exception of the Tamil invasions by the Chola dynasty. As you mentioned, Buddhist Sinhalese royalty often intermarry with Chola princesses. Buddhism in Sri Lanka is syncretic with Hinduism. Oftentimes, one can see Hindu deities in Buddhist temples. The British destroyed this mutual cohabitation with their imperialism. But really how can I expect a kiwi to remain impartial in his explanation.
There is no evidence of preferential treatment of the Tamils, that is a lousy myth and you clearly know nothing about Sri Lanka history. It's because of American missionaries building English schools in Jaffna, and the hard work that Tamil clerks had put into passing the exams by merit. This has even be recognised by swrd Bandaranaike and historian GC mendis
@@Verity888 Jaffna Tamils worked harder in studies because of cultural reasons and for lack of opportunities in the dry zone, as well as aptitude, and this can be seen even in the disproportionate success of the Jaffna Tamil diaspora. This is not to say others did not work hard, but there were more ppl from Jaffna passing these exams based on merit. Note how I say Jaffna Tamils, other Tamils of the island did not have this level of academic success. It was a Jaffna peculiar thing. But yes it was definitely unfair that Sinhalese got into university with less marks than Tamils in the early 70s, my mother lost her place in university because of this racist system which did not reward merit. And the current state of the country reflects this corrupt state of affairs for not rewarding ppl purely on merit. Btw don't put words in my mouth, just becoz Jaffna Tamils worked extremely hard, does not mean that all Sinhalese are lazy.
@@sltruth317 so now you are ragging on the hill country Tamils who due to colonialism were forced into indentured servitude in the tea plantations. Academic success is not just a function of innate gifts or cultural priorities but a complex interplay of opportunities, favoritism due to colonialism etc. Your ignorance is really showing.
@@Verity888 intelligence/IQ is definitely part genetic and there are many scientific studies that demonstrate this. Environmental factors play a big factor too. There is a reason why Brahmins for example score the highest in IQ tests among all south Asian populations (similar with Jews). But regardless your false canard that Tamils were favoured has no evidence whatsoever in regards to education. If this was the case then the Tamils of Vanni, east and up country would have been disproportionately represented in the civil service as well. Which they weren't. No historian agrees with this canard.
I just can't believe the level of quality here, how the hell this channel hasn't exploded yet is beyond me.
Your story telling and the fluidity between focusing on different topics such as going from something light like the cricket to something heavier explaining the beginnings of the ethnic conflict works so perfectly and seamlessly.
Definitely the most inspiring UA-camr I've seen for a long time
I am a Sri Lankan and watching this video made me realize more about the connections in history compared to the mainstream education provided in Sri Lanka. Like many other places, it seems history has been twisted to accommodate the social structures prevailing today. Thank you for this insightful video
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Nice work 👏...Realise ourselves...
Geopolitics is the key to disabled the power house....by doing that srilanka could be under foreign powers all the time, that would allow them to carry on their Trade,Global supply, and strategically safest spots for many western and Eastern countries...
Still srilanka is one of the important country in Geopolitical Terms...
Rubbish. There is no such insight here. The video is produced with the intentions of sugercoating old and new versions of economic, cultural and political colonialism. A project Anglo British culture intiated long long time ago in order to ensure the long term spread and survival of the said culture, and they have succeeded so far, for better or worse, because that's how the human social animal function when it comes to our true behaviour.
I found this channel randomly; it is really a channel that produces quality content.Keep up the good work.
Thank you, trying to put out more videos soon!
@@Lost_in_Context please do, highly digestible style of presentation.
You have a gift for this.
@@Lost_in_Contextyour vedios are interesting. I was a student of a buddhist school found by olcott in Sri Lanka,Dharmaraja College Kandy(Dharmaraja is a synonym for buddha)
@@Lost_in_Contexthey,sinhalese nation was not found by self-exiled vijaya.We are descendents of tribes like yakkha,naga,deva and King Ravana in ramayana.Balangoda home sapien is our ancestors
Sri Lankan here..
This series is very well put together and insightful. You've even captured some of the nuances of the life and atmosphere here..
Well done,. and thanks..
I look forward to further videos down the line!
Thank you very much for watching! I'm working on the next one as we speak
I am absolutely hooked on these. I cannot wait for the rest!
Thanks for watching and for the comment, trying to get them done as quickly as possible
Btw, this is by far the most in depth and informative channel on not just Sri Lanka but Tajikistan. I only just found this channel within the last week and it’s my “go to”. Makes me want to visit these places. Thanks so much! Keep up the AMAZING work mate! I’ll be watching the rest of your vids 👍🤙
Your videos are different from other geopolitical channels that I watch on UA-cam. Yours bear a sense of closeness while presenting the ground reality without being biased.
I haven't seen any 'Sri Lankan' explain the fundamental issue in this country so well. I need to emphasize that the racial division has lead to the civil war and thousands of casualties along with economic damages. But it has done more damage to the country by keeping the corrupted politicians in the power. Until all sinhales, tamils and muslims comes to a true reconciliation I don't think Sri Lanka will ever be the country that it really capable of.
Thanks so much for your comment! It is absolutely fascinating to think about the direction that Sri Lanka could go in now. It could be an opportunity post-Rajapaksa, but will Sri Lanka take it?
@@Lost_in_Context it doesn't look like that at the moment. You know that there is a certain group of people, elite people in countries like Sri Lanka that want to keep the things as it is so that they can continue whatever they were doing. This people's moment was a big blow for them. Yes they got a step back aroun May-July. But with the appointment of Ranil W as the pres they have slowly building up their authority again. We see huge repression against the activists in the peoples movement, media campaigns to change the people's mind set and build bad picture on people's movement, attempts to delay any elections these days. There will be 10 time hard economic crisis around this march than 2022 march. They are getting ready for that. Thing is Rajapakshas, Ranil Ws are the people run this elite class. These politicians give the required protection and the elite group provide the financial power. This is the cycle that causing all these issues. This racial division is just a tool that they use and with the stupidity of the most of the Sri Lankans its a very effective tool. Until the majority of the people realize this there is no hope for this country. In my estimation on 20-30% population are in this people's movement. That's not good enough to turn the country upside down which is exactly what SL required. Btw half of that people who seeked a change now have left the country since there is no hope staying here.
@@Lost_in_ContextIt's not just the ethnic conflicts that made Sri Lanka to this present day situation. People are trying to make it look like it's the main cause. The politicians that are Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim are responsible for the downfall of our country. Each had their own agenda and didn't care about the country or her people. Especially business owners, government officials were so corrupted and blame only the Rajapakses. Corruption have been happening since 1947. Majority SRI LANKANS do not change their foreign currency in banks, but from private business owners, because they offer more for your dollar. Where do the money go? To their foreign bank accounts. So first of all the govt should put restrictions on that. Corruption should stop from ground up. Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims here and living abroad were able to bring Sri Lanka to the present state of chaos, and pointing fingers to others.
This made me appreciate my country (Malaysia) a lot more. The Malays, Chinese, Indians and many other races all live in peace
That's interesting. How do you think it feeds through into politics? Especially with the position of UMNO?
@@Lost_in_Context I'm not really knowledgeable in the political world but from my observation.
The government has always tried to incite racial conflict but thank God nothing serious ever came from it.
We Malaysians have probably learn from our past history. Back in 1969 May 13, there was a huge fight between the Chinese and Malays right after the general elections. Hundreds were dead in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur.
I won't go into the details but the incident is still classified till this day. Rumor has it that UMNO was the one that stir the conflict because they lost a lot of seats in the capital.
Anyway with our new Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim currently, I believe Malaysia is in good hands.
@@alexfzg9936 very interesting to hear about it, and a few years ago I would never have guessed that Anura Ibrahim would have made it to prime minister. I wish you guys all the best!
@@Lost_in_Context Thank you
I'm a Malaysian 🇲🇾 of Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 descent and can tell you that both countries are stuck in a rut because of government policies that favour the ethnic and religious majorities, i.e. Malay Muslims ☪️ and Sinhalese Buddhists ☸️
Tamil people were never enemies historically, Chola empires had an enemity with Sri Lanka and other "indian" Tamil people like Chera and pandyans, Who happened to be allies of Sinhalese depending on their ruler. What caused the war was how British tried to separate major two ethnicities like how it is in Burma. And as a Sinhalese i believe that certain politicians will use the negative sinhala Buddhist nationalism(almost feels like a twisted version of christian culture of Europe simply localized.) And Sinhalese Royalty had always had intermarriages with Chera and pandyan tamils from India. But this doesn't mean today everything is all hunky Dory with our races its simply a battle with the good and bad. There are bad and good tamil/sinhala/muslim politicians. Bad and good priests and bad and good military personnel. Its just a very human story about people who will sacrifice many things for peace and those who will be greedy.
Dutu gemunu thama pumping air on the stage
@@philippinesmassu7245 ???
There is no good politicians in sl
@@raavanan8264 i believe sirimavo was one
Indeed! Well explained. The author has stepped into an area he has very little knowledge about the recent or past history. Branding Dharmapala as a xenophobic, Sinhala racist is pure ignorance, if not fueled by vested interests. Dharmapala was a product of his time, the same way colonials, Tamil and Sinhala privileged politicians had created Prabhakaran. The only difference between Prabhakaran and Dharmapala are the biggest differences in the opposite direction. Prabhakaran was a dedicated, ignorant and stupid megalomaniac. Dharmapala employed the tactics of modern western liberal culture to attack cultural and economic colonialism. A far cry from what colonials did in this island and what the LTTE did.
Alex, this is a really impressive series (which I stumbled upon completely randomly!). As someone whose roots are forged from this ethnic fault line, I have learnt so much from your videos and have enjoyed your unpacking of the history. Not sure if you have a way of receiving DMs/emails, but I’d love to share some more thoughts and ask some questions. You have a new subscriber :) KM x
Hi thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I really appreciate it. I'm not actually sure about messaging, I know that used to be a feature but I don't see if that is possible now. I was looking at your profile to see if its possible and I saw you had a Soundcloud, I can message you on there?
@@Lost_in_Context you’re so welcome! Yeah - drop me a message on there :)
Ps my profile has a link to my website which also has an email address - so you can message me via that too :)
What a smooth flow , you have maintained throughout. You have done your homework before coming to Sri Lanka. On history, Geography, ethnicity, religion and global political scenario and a lot you have covered with brilliance. A true journalism and unbiased viewpoint of a foreigner (foreigners normally tend to be biased due to the associates and story tellers in English and therefore the picture presented becomes corrupted). Admire your effort. This episode is worthwhile watching a few more times as it gives a perspective of an objective analyzer and has gone deep in to the facts with our waging an emotional war within. Thanks!
You should tag the location as Sri Lanka, then you might have gotten a lot more views for these videos as well.
Quite an interesting to watch. Thank you for making them.
Congratulations on another great video on this series!
Thanks for watching as always!
I think it was engineered by none other than S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike a former PM for his own personal gain. effects of which the people of Sri Lanka still suffer from. you should do a video on him.
Sinhala only act created conflicts among Sinhalese and Tamils true. But this act affected mostly Sinhalese as only Tamils, Muslims and Burgers were allowed to study in English medium. So the Sihalese were unable to secure highly paid jobs. Ceylon was called "Asia's Treasury " in her Golden Era. But due to J.Rs corrupted open economy ruined Sri Lankan's local companies like DASA, Velona, Hirdramanis, Vilasitha Nivasa which boosted Sri Lankan local goods. JR helped his business lobysts prosper by letting them export foreign goods. Dasa mudalali who brought the department store concept selling all Sri Lankan goods, and Velona and Vilasitha nivasa selling all made in Sri Lanka textiles and clothing couldn't compete with Majestic City foreign goods. Who owned most businesses in Sri Lanka ? Tamils and Muslims. Dasa mudalali the only Sinhalese entrepreneur was thrown to the curbs. Even the paddy farmers, and farmers who produce vegetables, onions, coconut were thrown to the curbs. Now the main exporters of coconut products overseas is Thailand and Phillipines. The propagandists say Coconut is a superfood now. All foreign currencies are given a high exchange rates by jewellry shop owners in Sri Lanka, and they promote it to the tourists who come to Sri Lanka. All Sri Lankans, including Sinhalese, tamils, Muslims and foreigners that come to Sri Lanka do not exchange their currency in banks. Hence the shortage of foreign currency in Sri Lanka. So in my opinion the downfall of our nation is due to Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim politicians, business owners, government officials, and a percentage of citizens. Once a Prosperous country now have to export rice, even onios from India, thus affecting our local farmers. So sad to say bringing Sri Lanka down to her knees is not the fault of one ethnic community, it's a team effort by the Sinhalese, Tamils and muslims.Vultures are waiting for a perfect opportunity to have a piece of our beautiful land.
@@vision2096open economy policy of jr made hell for local business men
This was a really god watch. Interesting to find out the history of Sri Lanka and the growth of a once fading religion in the area.
Excellent video and very insightful!
Discovered your channel thru the Tajikistan n Uzbekistan videos. I really really appreciate is the nuanced take you bring to the table. Honestly the best discovery in a long time. Hope for some content on Pakistan eventually, and if you plan on travelling, I'd be happy to help in whatever way I can.
Don't worry, Pakistan is definitely on the list. Hope to make my way there soon
May i know from where you have the picture at 5.24?
Just discovered your channel, its amazing...I binge watched the Guyana series, and here I am.
Such a beautiful way you tell stories about people.
I had to laugh at you as a Kiwi supporting anyone but Aussies😂. I love cricket too❤
Thank you for your lovely brand of travel journalism.
Amazing content.
Which country is going to be next?
I have a plan for this summer, but I have to wait for a few things to come together first!
Such great videos man!
amazing work!
this channel was very randomly found by me now after school i see atleast 1 video
Absolutely well done. Thanks Alex.
Keep up the good work! One day your channel needs to explode.
Political leaders always use ethnicity as leverage in Sri Lanka even right up to this moment.
The sinhala only act is the worst that's ever been done.
Thanks for watching!
The Sinhala only act actually affected the Sinhalese the most. After the Sinhala only act the Muslims, Tamils and Burghers were allowed to study in English medium in Schools but not the Sinhalese.Thus producing majority Sinhalese youth getting out of schools and universities without fluency in English. They had a hard time securing jobs even with a university degree. Rich including the Bandaranayakes sent their children to private schools, UK and other western countries and private tutors.The govt company that I worked at had two peons who were degree holders from Peradeniya campus, because they couldn't speak or write in English. I felt so bad as they were making tea and distributing mail in the office.
GREAT video!
Thankyou 👌 well explained.
Bro Buddhism was diluted by the colonials( Portuguese Dutch and Brit ) using a systemic discrimination that favored the Converts and nearly extinguished. it had to be reestablished by importing priests from Thailand an Burma. So yes you do tell a part of the story truthfully but ignore far more important pieces.
He mentioned this in another video
I found this channel by chance, it is an excellent channel which produces quality content. Thank you Alex. I hope one day you will make video about Bengalis.
And by that I mean both West Bengal and Bangladesh
amazing video
According to Wikipedia The early form of the Sinhala language is attested as early as the 3rd century BCE. of course it is over 2000 years old, but The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from c. 300 BC until AD 300. It has the oldest extant literature among Dravidian languages. Tamil was well developed even before a single word of Sinhala existed. and also Tamils were closer to Sri Lanka and at the time people could even walk to Sri Lanka over Adam's Bridge.
The early form of the Sinhala language is attested as early as the 3rd century BCE. The language of these inscriptions with long vowels and aspirated consonants is a Prakrit similar to Magadhi, a regional associate of the Middle Indian Prakrits that has been used during the time of the Buddha. did you notice the word "Regional associate of the MIDDLE INDIAN Prakrits"?
Tamils have a history of ruling even far away lands, including Sri Lanka too:
i.e:
Southeast Asia: Tamil traders and maritime activities influenced various Southeast Asian regions, including present-day Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The Chola dynasty, in particular, had strong maritime connections and established trade links with these regions. Tamil inscriptions and artifacts have been found in Southeast Asian countries, indicating their historical presence and influence.
Sri Lanka: While not a faraway land in the strictest sense, the Tamil Chola dynasty exerted control and influence over parts of Sri Lanka during certain periods of history. The Cholas, for example, invaded and ruled parts of Sri Lanka in the 10th and 11th centuries CE.
Maldives: The Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, had interactions with Tamil traders and occasionally came under the influence of Tamil dynasties like the Cholas and the Pandya dynasty. Tamil inscriptions have been discovered on some of the Maldivian islands.
Sumatra and Java: Tamil traders and cultural influences are believed to have reached Sumatra and Java, in present-day Indonesia. The inscriptions and artifacts discovered in these regions suggest the presence of Tamil influence.
Philippines: While not under direct Tamil rule, there is evidence of Tamil trade and cultural influence in the Philippines during ancient times. The presence of Tamil inscriptions and artifacts has been found in certain areas.
These examples shows that Tamils have already explored more nations in the early stages of history. I am not saying that we should rule the country. I am just asking a simple question. "If you (Sinhala politicians) are so sure about the country's history, why destroy the historical artifacts which are related to Tamil people? If what you say is true those artifacts will only prove it and make your point much stronger!
Good one.. ☺️
Thanks 😊
Give us the rest of the videos quickly pls 😮
I'm working on it!
Another well researched video! Perfect
Glad you think so! Thanks for watching
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Woah this is pretty good. im from SL
Great to hear, which part?
Sri Lanka has few options:
A) Ethnic cleansing of Tamil (not recommended). Bhutan and Myanmar did that already, btw. Just saying.
B) Sri Lanka had choosen this. Traumatized the shet out of the Tamils. Reduced the Tamils' power. Softly tell them to move out.
C) Learn from Chechen Republic (Russia) and XUAR (PRC). Not perfect but whole lot better.
D) Learn from Singapore. Its working language is English, so that Chinese, Malays, Indians can be chill (aka stability), without favouring any race. You can learn whatever languages you want after school. Encourage to intermingling thru "housing system".
Bhutan was allowed to do it bcoz Bhutan is a "friend" to India and The Five Eyes. Yup, they supported it, indirectly.
Tamil Sri Lankans simply have no leverage. It was a lost cause from the start.
I'm Chinese Malaysian. In high school, we and Indians had an unofficial pact to defence ourselves against Malay (school bullying stuff). Some Chinese Malaysian gangs (like real gangster, underground stuff) worked with Indian Malaysian gangs. And that was 20 years ago. Things could be different now.
Tamils are the majority of Indian Malaysians. One of my Indian friends has an English name and probably Christian. And when they speak to each other, they speak in English due to language barrier. One of the few things that I noticed back then, as my English named Indian Malaysian friend explained to me.
I got an itch to look up the LTTE - I think i fell into the rabbit hoe by reading up on separatist movements recently. Found your channel. Really good stuff. I wish I'd have come up with it when I was in college, also studying history, political science and the like. A quick scan shows you have videos on Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Guatemala. Good on you for researching and putting together updated analysis on these regions that don't get as much sunshine as others.
Hi, I hope you see this comment! I really love your videos and I want your channel to reach the kind of success you're looking for! I've always been very interested in the history of my country. I would say I know quite alot compared to most kids. But your videos have alot of content I can't find in any srilankan history text book. Things like the tooth relic allegedly being destroyed by the Portuguese, The influence of the North Korean embassy, Ceylon being the second wealthiest nation in Asia, ect. I feel like schools and SL MSM are gatekeeping alot that there is to know. I would love to read the books you've read ! Can you please give me the names of the books and the sources you got your knowledge of srilanka from? PLEASE ❤
I was actually in Ceylon in the 1950s... Before the British Colonial Administration left, the hierarchy in Sri Lanka was:-
English people > Irish, Scottish, Welsh > Burghers > Malays > Tamil Anglican Christians > Sinhalese Anglican Christians > Tamil Hindus > Muslims > Sinhalese Buddhists > Indian Tamils. Tamils in general were favoured. It was classic divide and rule. This meant 'uplifting' the Ceylonese Tamils over the majority Sinhalese.
The main reason for the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka can be traced to 1944, when the Unified Tamil Political Party asked the British Governor to set the Constitution up so that the Sinhalese would only be allowed 50% of the seats in Parliament, even though they were around 75% of the population. The Governor had rejected this. But obviously this pissed off the Sinhalese.
@@nilax21 Go back and check the Ceylon census from 1939. The Sinhalese were 72%. It wasn't 55% Sinhalese - 45% Minorities. Indian Tamils were roughly 8% of the population. This was cut down to 4% in 1949, after about 50% of Indian Tamils were sent to India.
Either way, what was playing out that time, was that the Ceylonese Tamils were trying to keep the privileges that we had given them during our rule of Ceylon, even by distorting the concept of democracy and this backfired really far up their backsides.
Ceylon Tamils definitely wanted too much. They, along with the Sinhalas, denied the Indian Tamils universal suffrage. Ceylon Tamils then used the pogroms against Indian Tamils as a pretext for war.
amazing content
Tamils are native to Srilanka and India. Indian Tamils and Srilankan Tamils share a similar culture. The frequent trades have been happening for more than 5000 years through the sea.
Archaeological evidence of megalithic burial sites in Sri Lanka that are similar to those found in Tamil Nadu, India, and date back to the 5th century BCE.
Ceramic sequences similar to those found at Arikamedu, an ancient Tamil port city in India, have been found at Kandarodai (Kadiramalai) on the north coast of Sri Lanka, dating back to 1300 BCE.
Cultural similarities in burial practices in South India and Sri Lanka have been dated by archaeologists to the 10th century BCE.
Keep up the good work!❤️
Thank you! Will do!
Are you a professional historian? You are amazing.
Bro you're so good at what you do the professional the nitty gritty details and the well researched facts you present, it's such high quality content i hope you will come to Pakistan in future
Hey Rothman, how many years 😄 it took for make these videos on srilanka?
Six months research, then two months filming, then another year of editing (though still not finished)
This is a great video, but it's definitely written and told from a white perspective! It's lacking a little nuance I feel, would love to do a collab sometime. Definitely like your editing style :) I'm half Sinhalese and half Tamil!
I appreciate the sharing of your exultation at the opportunity to settle into a match of test cricket. I get the rules, but not the appeal. Happy to be informed.
A couple people in the photo at 3:00 look East Asian; do you know who they are? I don't know much about Sri Lanka's ethnic groups (only what you've said in these videos); do some of the people look like that?
Perfect. 👍
Thanks 👍
The American Mission to Ceylon was established following the war of 1812. The Buddhist sangha banned it from Sinhalese areas. It was exceptionally well resourced.
No american missionaries were banned in sinhalese area full stop. The British banned them even from coastal Sinhalese areas
@@Slhistory What about British missionaries?
Thank you for this documentary. This history is not being taught at Sri Lankan schools even though it should be. In Sri Lanka, Dharmapala is considered as a national hero even though he was racist.
If the Sinhala language ACT had not been imposed, Sri Lanka could have been one of the wealthiest countries in Asia with the support of the educated Tamils. However, racial discrimination and the suppression of Tamil rights led to suffering and unrest, including government corruption and financial crisis. If the government had acted more responsibly in the 1950s, it is possible that the current generation would be living in harmony with all communities.
Couldn't agree more! 👍
BS.... the same educated Tamils u mentioned above gave their vote to remove citizenship from "Indian Tamils"... I mean the Tamils (mainly the so called "vellala" group) in Jaffna literary discriminated against their own in a big way which still exist to this day.... u cant see that in other groups like Sinhalese, Muslims and etc..
@පැරකුම්බා The Vellalar caste has undergone significant changes in recent years, particularly during and after the LTTE era. Intercaste marriages have become more common, and attitudes towards them have become more accepting. Additionally, there has been a shift in the beliefs and actions of some educated Tamils, who previously supported the government until they were thrown out by the sinhalese chauvinism.
I am saying this as a Vellalar caste origin.
@@KethTamilTubing lets get together and change this feudal systems once and for all.....
Also for the part where u say that Sri Lankan tamils don't support the SL team, you are wrong. Read VOC by Sarah Kabhir ,here you will say how a former LTTE cadet says how they cheared the SL team when they were winning the World Cup(While the SL army was very actively bombing the LTTE areas and LTTE vice versa). The stories in Sri Lanka can make you cry,you will not believe the things you will hear as a Sri Lankan. It is definitely not what the western or even indian media want the world to believe. And things like the Sinhala Only act there is many debates how this was instigated with the Indian politics in the then Sri Lanka.
Yeah, I said up north specifically the team isn't quite as popular, which is something I've read and heard from travelling there, not that they don't support them at all
@@Lost_in_Context that's news for me man,cuz when i found out the LTTE cheared for them ,i thought it must mean they know well enough about the SL cricket team. Maybe it's the new SL team. Even in the south the new team is not really appreciated cuz there is not much to be excited about them other than a few players.
@@szoom6066The reason why civil war and ethnic clenching in first places because of discrimination in every sector since independence . Not alone cricket.
This video didn't tell real history basically 80est made up text book story of the government.
@@Lost_in_Context The real reason of civil war erupted? you didn't mention discrimination in every sector, not only cricket
What happend? Tamils living Srilanka 5000years and Hinduism all over the Island from Ravanan Era.
Oh poor tamils , anyone can write their opinion in a paper lol😅 always you people seeing the world from your side! My father would still alive if your nation wouldn’t exist in this world.
Great Narration. Would have made David Attenborough proud.
You're very kind, thanks for watching!
Stop blaspheming. We had a war with LTTTE, a renowned terrorists in the world. Not with Tamils.
Tamils and Sinhalese are siblings. But Rajapakse family, Bandaranaike Nayake, sirisena, ranil wikramasinke etc are not Sri Lankans, they are Telungu nayakars ,they came to srilanka from India, they are the real enemies of tamils. People who followed Shivam they speak Tamil, people who followed Buddhism who speak Sinhalese ( Tamil mixed with Pali to form Sinhalese )
Tamil mixed with Prakrit. They found potteries with Tamil words like marumakal, written with Tamil brami but with prakrit pronounciation.
@@tamilpatriot7815lol they aren't
Bro, Tamils and Sinhalese were fighting since the Anuradhapura time. Read some history 😂
@@groundzero5708 Research on Thissamaharama potteries with tamil writings.
@@udithnuren6546 Only the kings were fighting, now politicians for their selfish benefits, only the poor suffer.
I really liked how you mentioned Olcott and Theosophy in your explanation. I have been researching on the connections between occultism and nationalism and broadly about extreme political ideologies. In the context of Sri Lanka, it just strikes me how Buddhism is the result of a socio-cultural set up by on European main strand of mainstream occultism.
Nationalism is in my opinion the real globalist strand of political ideology. In the case of Sri Lanka it shows perfectly, mainly by its destructive effects: a wonderful island destroyed
Good Info Alex...thumbs up . But It would be better if you have done more indepth research on the Tamils side. Definitely its not 700 yrs , 7000 maybe Yes / Btw , whats your secret of fitness? Rowing?
Yes Tamils live along with Sinhalese in north until few Tamils kings come chase away all the Sinhalese population .if you look all the city names in the north of country .like Jaffna and other cities ,everything has a Sinhala prakit origin
I lived in sri lanka all my life!!am 42 yers old!!i know & witnessed what happened. Tamil tinges were terrorists.(thats why they were banned in many countries)they were always planning attacks from and among civilians. (garilla techniques)by doing that they used the civilians as a shield. and use the civilian casualties to bad mouth S.L army. of Couse sri lanka is the mother land of singhalese. yet every one was living peacefully. war was planted by the external forces. (prabakaran played the Villon's character. only he didn't know how the story ended.) just that country held back from its economic growth due to this. whole of india, south east asia grabed all our opportunities during that 30 yers. now they are all ahead of us.
Every body needs a piece of sri lnka given its geo political location. best way do it is to paralyze the country by triggering internal conflicts, promote corruption via greedy politicians) now we are a bankrupt country. now those vultures can have a piece of this.
LTTE is not a representation of all SL tamils. Many Tamils were affected by their approach for Tamil Eelam.
You act like the government didn't cause a major genocide towards the tamil people.
Όταν έφυγαν οι Άγγλοι, τόσο στην Σρι Λάνκα όσο και στην Ινδία ξέσπασε εμφύλιος πόλεμος. Αυτό ΔΕΝ είναι τυχαίο
Henry Steel Olcott is a national hero of Sri Lanka. Most Sri Lankas may not know or appreciate his contribution to save Buddhism and Buddhist education. He was instrumental in founding many schools in Sri Lanka appropriately called Olcott schools. It is however unbefitting to therefore call him "this guy" in your narration. We Sri Lankans still bow to this great man.
You r rocking
Before portuguese came , those Costal places were filled with sinhalese villages it was a part of kingdom of kandy, 90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was Brought here by portuguese , dutch , british to costal aria to work as slave workers time to time from india, for various slave purposes (before they were lower cast tamils in india , Sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers then immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from south india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon
people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were always fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils
Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by
Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐 and read old portuguese , dutch colonial records
26 years of civil war was created by Tamil Cast system and British , dutch and portuguese 500 years of colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese.
half baked documentary , go study on prince viajaya bringing Buddhism to the island, government even released a stamp as a remembrance of that
No bro who told u that
In 1956 jaffna ,northern and eastern sinhalese were also killed
15:28 In 1948, it was easy to predict that. South Korea and Singapore were nothing, really and wouldn't get going till the 1960s and 1970s respectively.
I skipped the parts of your traveling through Sri Lanka and went back to the original story .
Anagarika Dharmapala is a national hero. He is a prominent figure in the struggle for independence. But some of his actions might have contributed for the ethnic problems to follow
Promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination for enjoying the nature and culture by all means. However, refrain from passing false judgements on guys like Dharmpala as a xenophobe. He was nothing of the kind. Dharmapala's choice of words and phrases were to address the lethargic, politically illiterate Sinhala people in that certain era of colonialism in Ceylon. Dharmpala took on a mission that was too big for him and eventually, more or less abandoned it when he started noticing the exploitation of his work(or the results of his work being below his expectations).
Perhaps, he would've come to a realization that according to the Buddhist world view, both Sinhala as well as Buddhism(as an organized religion) will eventually vanish from this planet, as everything will, including humans.
You dis not talk of strategic netholigy used by the European christian missionaries to destroy aboth Buddhism and Hinduism. That backfired unlike in the Philippines the Buddhists countered the direct forceful conversions and insentivised conversions ,
16:16
In 1928 Nathan Rothchilld brought millions of indian tamils from india to work His tea plantation Lands(where in 1818 british had massacred and eliminated millions sinhalese
and burnt millions of sinhalese villages from upcountry Completely Erased sinhalese Identity of upcountry ) ,
and those plantation workers are not only tamil they were malabarians and telugus people and all that plantation money went to England and Nathan Rothchilld and why didn't Nath Rothchilld or britain take all those indian lower cast(sakkiliyar ) slaves to England or Germany ,didn't give anyone to citizenship of England 🤔
Wtf there were tamils in sri lanka way before that time. You're acting like tamils displaced the sinhalese from the north
This is some bullshit. The language of Tamil has been in Sri Lanka at least since the 9th century
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Before portuguese came , those Costal places were filled with sinhalese villages it was a part of kingdom of kandy, 90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was Brought here by portuguese , dutch , british to costal aria to work as slave workers time to time from india, for various slave purposes (before they were lower cast tamils in india , Sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers then immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from south india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon
people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were always fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils
Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by
Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐 and read old portuguese , dutch colonial records
26 years of civil war was created by Tamil Cast system and British , dutch and portuguese 500 years of colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese.
@@john_____yeah yeah sure my family was in Ceylon for centuries you’ve got no right to claim the whole island for yourselves Tamils were in the north and east since forever
NOW LET THE LIONS AND TIGERS ROAR TOGETHER! WE WILL SHOW WHO WE ARE TO indians and chinese playing games using us.......
Reasonably balanced.
But it is not possible for a researcher to find the true factors of a history from alone the books. Many factors are there that have not found their way into the books.
1 In the ancient SL, lands could not have been owned by persons; not the States as well. Like air or water land was a public property.
2 In the ancient SL crown could not have been owned by a race or family as opposed to Europe or Indian subcontinent.
3 Anyone doing the right thing was accepted as their king by the people. That’s why we have had kings belonging to different races or nationalities. Even the commoners have become kings. This tradition ensured the harmony among many ethnic groups for thousands of years. Ethnic conflicts were unheard of this country until 1915. (Tamil literature such as Yalpana Vaipava Malai mentioned that Tamil rulers in Jaffna drew away all the Sinhalese from their territory, but Fr. Queyroz fairly disproved such stories)
4 It was the Catholic and Christian churches that introduced the ethnic divisions into this country. Northern areas were the most vulnerable part of the country when these priests arrived in SL. And North was the most fertile land for their missionary activities. In order to prevent their converts leaving the Belief, prevent them getting contaminated by the southern enemies of the Belief, the priests taught the converted Tamils that they were of a superior class than the unconverted Sinhalese. That’s how the ethnic divisions found their way into our country. Even Fr. Queyroz stated repeatedly that the Sinhalese were inconvertible and if converted they betrayed the Belief at the first chance they got. Priests loved Northern areas and called them the “Gods vineyards “. Priests introduced the ethnic divisions in order to protect their converts.
5 Anagarika Dharmapala was just a representative, not a creator of rifts. His words were harsh. But he was not against the other ethnicities.
"make sense of that, non-cricket fan"
NZ would do well to take note of what happened in Sri Lanka and stop this nonsense of “co-governance” and going down the path of dividing society through ethnicity. We will turn into a banana republic as well…ruled by selfish serving bureaucrats and elites. Watch this space
Great introduction video on the conflict. Notice how colonizers end up destroying every place once they leave. The destruction and conflict goes on for generations afterwards. It's almost as if the seeds of post-colonial conflict are planted upon the arrival of the colonizers.
Root cause was Sinhala only policy bought In as Legislation in the 1960's. Led to Outlawing of Educated Tamils who were Good in Technical skills and English. Lesson for Parochial Language policies in India too
There were 2 jvp I surrection on 1972 a d 1988
11:00 Oh, give me a freaking break. The Yanks took cricket, made it their own and a whole new game, the finest game ever devised by man. MLB is a 162-game long season of baseball.
You are factually incorrect the north central areas were the origins of the sinhala race far before the Tamils came as invaderstdmil.
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How come all the oldest inscriptions are in Tamil, in Trinco you can find Tamil inscriptions which are from BC, Trinco used to be the Tamil capital even during BC. The pancha Eeswarams existed even 3000 yrs back, at that time no such thing as Sinhala, only Tamils and vedar.
@@tamilpatriot7815 don't lie and distort not a single inscription in Sri Lanka in Tamil found by British or anyone in Tamilmor even equal to to Tamil🤣🤣🤣🤩
@@warsil3735 Broken potteries were discovered with Tamil Brahmi writings which go as back as 3000 yrs.
Words like marumahan, marumahal, parumahan...etc with prakrit pronounciation. Research about Trincomalee.
Also coins were discovered in the island with Tamil names on them which are from BC, you can google and see.
Know anything about Ibankatuba burial site? Practice of the Tamils. Learn about pancha Eeswarams. Learn what Arjun Guneratne concluded? Your Ammey came from our Amma, Ayya is a tamil word, also akka, thaatha, sahothara... why are you using tamil words to refer to your relations? What's the connections?
@@tamilpatriot7815 there are sinhala inscription which age over 10000 years..
1:07 it's so ridiculous that you are saying over 2000 years they've been in srilanka
It shows your quality of biased video
Jaffna Kingdom from 2nd century king Sangili 1 and Vanni Kingdom roled by king Bandaravannyan .
You didn't talk any thing about it, try to avoid real Tamils history or original history
I assure you I haven't ignored the Tamil's history, check out the first video in the series to get the background
@@Lost_in_Context you may not ignore, but you can't changed every videos the foundation of history such as years, times , religion language of the history, definitely it happened in this video 🙂
What 😂😂😂 king sangilli, what on earth is king sangilli is he brother of LTTE leader 🤣 this guy written his own history by his own imagination.
@@derekperera3501 first and for most find your history, Do you know where is you ancestors from check out Perera is Portuguese name
I am sure king Sangiliyan and king Bandaravannyan had beaten several of your ancestors. Some ran to India some die and buried.
For sure Jaffna Kingdom and Vanni kingdom has rich culture and values
Portuguese came ,disroyed all Hindu temple from India to Srilanka and stole asked tax.
Perera can you find what part of Portugal you are from because there is Island in the country poor not even know the letter s left for better life.
Get to know you and you ancestors when they came to Sri Lanka
then only you can ask them who had been lived this country. I am sure king Sangili 1,2,3,and king 🤴 bandaravanniyan had beaten several of your ancestors some of them ran to India and die.🙂
Of course I am Tamilian was born and raised in kandy but my parents from northern province .
Did spend so much money & time for freedom
I am not young anymore & hand over to young generation it is up to them
Olcott has a name and a statue named under him
This video, for instance, is exactly the reason why Eelam Tamils in particular need to make their own history-related videos or gather information about the conflict. This UA-camr is not only whitewashing the conflict; he also spreads lies like the one that, before the war, Jaffna was 50% Sinhalese in his other youtube videos.
The Tamils living in the foreign land are well settled, and they are not going to return to their ancestral land unless there is a Black July on those continents, which is highly improbable. So, as usual, the Eelam Tamils will never create or do anything to defend their history. On the other side, the Sinhalese are well educated-only politically when compared to the Tamils-and they are doing their best to tame and create a fake history about the Eelam War that is favourable to them while glorifying and whitewashing their genocide against Eelam Tamils. This video is created with some sort of agenda in mocking Eelam Tamils.
There are 7 videos like this in this paid propaganda channel. This video clearly looks like a well-paid one because he concentrates on and contains the Tamil's struggle within child soldiers and suicide bombers (Eelam Tamil's Self-benefactors), whereas he glorifies the Sri Lankan military and its invasion and occupation of the Tamils' homeland, i.e., Tamil Eelam.
The sources he used were written by Sri Lanka supporters and those who were in its favour. They are not neutral sources. As it's a video glorifying the Sinhalese victory over the Eelam Tamils and taming our freedom struggle as terrorism, as usual, the comment section is filled with Sinhalese who are appreciating and praising the video and the maker, who did this for money.
Mark my words: sooner this video will be widespread, and the foreign-born Eelam Tamils will promote it and learn their history through it. Even now, I could clearly see some Tamils in the comment section appreciating this video. But I'm not sure 100% they are Tamils, because even Sinhalese with a fake Tamil name could comment like Tamils appreciated this video.
This will result in our own future generations spitting up their own authentic, brave history because of the laziness and unwillingness of the present Eelam Tamil generation.
Not only Eelam Tamil people but also everyone in the world will learn about our struggle for independence through this video, because it was created by a white man - without knowing that this was fake propaganda!
Until we create a video about our history, this video must be reported or disliked in large numbers. Even if it is created, it will not be appreciated by our own nation and may sometimes be reported by our own people. i.e. paramilitary groups like EPDP, TMVP supporters and members and Colombo mixed Tamils. That's the unrest with the Eelam Tamils
I'm Sinhalese .I don't know what f is really wrong with u .
No offense, but the north of Sri Lanka was historically the homeland of the Sinhalese. The Sinhalese lost control of the region only in and since 1215 due to the genocidal invasion by Kalinga Magha. The Sinhalese never reclaimed or retook the north because, after the fall of the Sinhalese kingdom, Dravidians established a kingdom for themselves in the north, known as the 'Vanniar Kingdom.'
When the British arrived in the 1790s, the north was predominantly Dravidian, while the south was predominantly Sinhalese.
Your Halfbacked knowledge prevail throught this video , and your supporting sinhalese , the genocide conducted bt them on tamil civilians ..
Just to be clear. Your history is wrong from the outset. Nobody really knows who was on the Island first for certain and it does not matter.
But for the record Tamils were more likely on the Island first. Sinhalese migrated from the North, Tamils from the SOuth. Sri lankan archaelogists themselves have confirmed that Tamils were probably their first. Generally on an Island the minority were there first - Jews, Aboriginies, Maories etc.
Tamil is an older language than Sinhalese. Hinduism is older than Buddhism. The Sinhalese were originally Buddhist fgs - a known fact.
You have not mentioned the Mahavasama - which really caused the racial conflict.
The Ramayana itself referenced Sri lanka and this book predates a lot of what you said. The Ramanya itself is a good proof that Tamils were there a lot sooner than you mention and probably the original inhabitants.
The root cause of this conflict initially was nothing to do with Religion for the MOST part. It was the fault of the British who favoured the Tamils. The Tamils and Sinhalese got along fine for the most part. The British messed everything up. Dharmapala - nothing to do with the conflict. It was the ethnic minority being favoured and outperforming the majority which sowed the seeds of resentment and caused the war. Period.
This video is so off.
quality vid fr
dubs in the chat
Good work Roman
The downfall of Sri Lanka is due to her own corrupted Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim politicians and civilians. The majority of hardworking people lived their lives harmoniously minding getting about their business. The real situation in Sri Lanka should be narrated by an unbiased Sri Lankan.
Buddisham brought up from India in 4th century. There is a tree branch brought up that is the symbol.
You basically talking about the root of the Civil War creation ,
Wtf is wrong with .u r again a Tamil separatist not a good fellow
This dude doesn't know what he's talking about. North wasn't a Tamil state before. There was Sinhalese in the North. However, due to invasions from South India, Sinhalese had to fled the Northern regions to stay alive. It's like the situation in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine many times during the history and killed Ethnic Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine. Then populated those areas with Ethnic Russians which carried from rural areas of Russia. Then in 2014, Russia called Crimea as a Russian territory. Then in 2022, Eastern and Southern Ukraine as Russia. Why? Because the majority of the population was Russians. But the truth is, it was forcefully populated by the invaders over the centuries! Sri Lanka was governed by Portuguese and Dutch before British. Before them, there were kingdoms which were fighting with each other. There were many invasions from South India before the arrival of damn westerners who are trying to teach history to us. A s a result, there were Tamil Royals who received pardon from Sinhalese kings lived in Jaffna. As the Sinhalese kings fights each other, those Tamil royals betrayed Sinhalese kings and started a kingdom in Jaffna. That's how Tamils started to live in Jaffna with a Kingdom. Now this %%^%^ a$$ is trying to tell a $h!tty story which has no evidences. He's probably referred to some websites or books published by LTTE Terrorist diaspora who living in Europe by fooling decaying westerners which funded Terrorism and Child soldiers.
Bro chola invaded Anuradhapura .
There some instances when Tamils do invade srilanka to put Thier culture and imposed on others like cholas
There were Sinhalese living in Jaffna even during colonial times .Jaffna had few Sinhala villages
I don't agree with this. Remember that Tamil Nadu is above Jaffna. The Tamil people migrated to Sri Lanka due to Indian aggression.
That not me
The Kiwi rooting against Australia huh? Maybe it’s because we thrash you in cricket?
Jokes.
Im sorry, how come nobody told me someone involved with investigating the assassination of lincoln became a majorly influential religous leader and who indirectly helped set the conflict that sparked the sri lanka because of whi he had as a translator
As sri Lankan it is a great documentary but i hope you could change the heading because i never experienced discrimination for religion my whole life all these ethnicity conflict is derived from politicians to gain more votes i have met many English,sinhala,Tamil speaking people but they are all nice as for why I said such is because i don't know their religion because i didn't care to ask they don't either i have never seen anyone going around asking other peoples religion because it awkward and hilarious 😂😂😂
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Why apologise, they didn't/
@@Thigamabobwhy should we, you started this stupid war
Great white explaining lol! The modern conflict between the Tamils and Sinhalese is due solely to British colonialism and the system’s preferential treatment of the Tamils. This can be seen in Africa with the ethnic tensions between Indians and Africans, and Malaysia with the ethnic Chinese and Indians with the Malays.
Buddhist Sinhalese have mostly lived in harmony with the Tamils throughout history with the exception of the Tamil invasions by the Chola dynasty.
As you mentioned, Buddhist Sinhalese royalty often intermarry with Chola princesses. Buddhism in Sri Lanka is syncretic with Hinduism. Oftentimes, one can see Hindu deities in Buddhist temples.
The British destroyed this mutual cohabitation with their imperialism.
But really how can I expect a kiwi to remain impartial in his explanation.
There is no evidence of preferential treatment of the Tamils, that is a lousy myth and you clearly know nothing about Sri Lanka history. It's because of American missionaries building English schools in Jaffna, and the hard work that Tamil clerks had put into passing the exams by merit. This has even be recognised by swrd Bandaranaike and historian GC mendis
@@sltruth317 so you’re saying the Sinhalese are lazy and don’t bother working hard…nice one dumazz
@@Verity888 Jaffna Tamils worked harder in studies because of cultural reasons and for lack of opportunities in the dry zone, as well as aptitude, and this can be seen even in the disproportionate success of the Jaffna Tamil diaspora. This is not to say others did not work hard, but there were more ppl from Jaffna passing these exams based on merit. Note how I say Jaffna Tamils, other Tamils of the island did not have this level of academic success. It was a Jaffna peculiar thing. But yes it was definitely unfair that Sinhalese got into university with less marks than Tamils in the early 70s, my mother lost her place in university because of this racist system which did not reward merit. And the current state of the country reflects this corrupt state of affairs for not rewarding ppl purely on merit. Btw don't put words in my mouth, just becoz Jaffna Tamils worked extremely hard, does not mean that all Sinhalese are lazy.
@@sltruth317 so now you are ragging on the hill country Tamils who due to colonialism were forced into indentured servitude in the tea plantations. Academic success is not just a function of innate gifts or cultural priorities but a complex interplay of opportunities, favoritism due to colonialism etc. Your ignorance is really showing.
@@Verity888 intelligence/IQ is definitely part genetic and there are many scientific studies that demonstrate this. Environmental factors play a big factor too. There is a reason why Brahmins for example score the highest in IQ tests among all south Asian populations (similar with Jews). But regardless your false canard that Tamils were favoured has no evidence whatsoever in regards to education. If this was the case then the Tamils of Vanni, east and up country would have been disproportionately represented in the civil service as well. Which they weren't. No historian agrees with this canard.