The spokesman for Tamils for Trump said that during the last seventy years, the Tamils’ struggle to achieve a federal political resolution has shown us how very determined the Sinhalese are to block any political concession to Tamils. The conduct of the Sinhalese has made Tamil leaders finally decide to battle for division from the Sinhalese.

Sinhalese early thinking was, as indicated by the Sinhala Buddhist chronicles, a myth. “The Mahavamsa” is the confirmation that the Sinhalese have resolved to make the entire nation a Sinhala-Buddhist nation.

Here is what the Tamil spokesman said in detail about early Sinhalese thinking:

For seven decades, Tamils have worked to find a political solution within united Sri Lanka. Since the nation gained independence from Britain in 1948, the Singhalese have refused to share any political power. Over the years, Tamils have asked for their political rights from Sri Lankan Sinhala politicians, and the Sinhalese have responded with pogroms in 1958, 1977, 1983, and genocide in 2009. These killed many thousands of Tamils, made them refugees in foreign countries, and caused the loss of their businesses, lands, and homes to the Sinhalese. They have carried out well-orchestrated genocide since the British left in 1948.

The reason Sri Lankan Sinhalese hate Tamils so much is written in their Chronicles, called “the Mahavamsa.”
“The Mahavamsa” equates the killing of the ‘others’ (Tamils) as being on par with the killing of “sinners and wild beasts.” Through this killing, the King’s  sorrow and regret are assuaged.

This Sinhalese mythological script called the Mahavamsa was created by Ven. Mahanama to protect Sinhala-Buddhism in Sri Lanka in the 6th century A.D.

At the time, Buddhism had begun to lose its popularity in India. The monks of the Mahavihara (Buddhist monastery), especially Mahanama, panicked, and they decided to make Sri Lanka a Buddhist country in order to protect Buddhism.

Thus, Mahanama created the Sinhala race by bringing together those from various tribes and ethnic groups to create this one single race. Thus, the Sinhalese believe that Sinhala-Buddhists are Buddha’s chosen people. According to Mahanama, the race should protect Buddhism for five thousand years.

“The Mahavamsa” regards the ‘other’ as anyone who is not Sinhala-Buddhist; specifically, Hindus are seen as “invaders.” The text preaches not to trust the others who do not belong to Sri Lanka, and categorizes them as merely guests of the benevolent Sinhala-Buddhists.

• Sinhalese Buddhist children are taught at an early age that all Tamils, Muslims, Hindus, Christians (Sinhala Christians included), and others must be chased away from Mahavamsa-Buddhist Sri Lanka. This reflects ancient times, when in 140 B.C. King Dutugemunu killed 65,000 Tamils and chased away the remaining “others” to Tamil Nadu.

• According to “the Mahavamsa,” the Sinhala race came about through a mythical union between a lion and a human princess. Perhaps that explains why Mahavamsa-Buddhists are so lethargic and bloodthirsty. It explains the existence of pogroms against Tamils engineered by the Sinhala government, as well as the 2009 mass killings of Tamils.

• According to Sinhala/Mahavamsa-Buddhism, even a murderer, rapist, or child molester can circumvent their bad karma and be reborn in heaven. This can be done by offering courtesy alms and gifts to Buddhist monks. This shows that Sinhala war criminals will not be punished by the Sri Lankan state.

• Through his “Mahavamsa,” Mahanama portrayed Sri Lanka as the ‘Dhamma deepa,’ the chosen land of the Buddha, to protect and propagate his Dhamma. The Dhamma were his teachings of the Buddha’s doctrine. Mahanama, not the Buddha, said that Buddhism would prevail for five thousand years, and that the Sinhalese alone must protect it.

• Perhaps nowhere else in the world does this strange practice of Buddhism exist. It is neither a religion nor a philosophy. It is a unique culture passed off as Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

• Who and what distorted the Buddhist philosophy in Sri Lanka? The blame must be laid at the feet of Mahanama and his ‘book of Buddhist tales,’ the Mahavamsa. This text deals mostly with mythical and supernatural tales of so-called Buddhist history, with some myths borrowed from the India’s Mahabharata and Ramayana.

As long as the Sinhalese practice Mahavamsa-Buddhism, and as long as the government of Sri Lanka is dominated by Sinhala/Mahavamsa-Buddhist ideology, Tamils will not gain any political power and will not be represented in the government. Therefore, there should be a referendum asking Tamils to determine their own future free from the Sinhala/Mahavamsa-Buddhist genocidal regime.

Tamils for Trump is a political activist group comprised of Americans; the majority are Tamil Americans. They believe that over 145,000 Tamil civilians living in Sri Lanka were massacred during the last weeks of the Sri Lankan ethnic war. They have also observed post war behaviors of the Sri Lankan Sinhalese victors, and concluded that Tamils in Sri Lanka will only be safe when this war torn island is divided into two individual self-governing nations.

It is of interest to note that , according to UN Internal Review Report on Sri Lanka, around 70,000 Tamil civilians may have been massacred in the last six months of the ethnic war. Also, Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph, the Catholic Bishop of Mannar in Sri Lanka , gave a presentation to the Sri Lankan Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation

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