Mr. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, became Prime Minister in June 1956, after winning the General Elections. The following demands were made to the new Prime Minister by the Tamil federal party:
1. Federal Constitution
2. Parity of Status for Tamil and Sinhala languages;
3. Repeal of citizenship laws which had discriminated against Tamils of Indian descent;
4. Immediate halt to the colonisation of the Tamil homelOn 26 July 1957, an agreement was
On 26 July 1957, an agreement was entered into between Mr.S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon and Mr.S.J.V. Chelvanayagam, Leader of the Thamil Arasu Katchi (Federal Party) - the Bandaranaike Chelvanayakam Pact.
The agreement was repudiated by Mr. Bandaranaike in April 1958 in view of a campaign led by the Buddhist clergy and sections of the Sinhala political leadership.
In May and June 1958, was the outcome of that funda¬mental error there were a huge violence had been made against the Tamil people in capital and any part of the country. Gangs of hoodlums made assaults on whom they fine as the Tamil, Genocide were made in 1958 in Srilanka. Incalculable people were assassinated and many made in to as refugee in to the country. The elementary duty of a Government is to afford protection to its subjects, at moment the Srilankan Government failed to afford that protection, negatively they who were in to the government bodies, encourage the riots in order to gain the cheapest political benefits.
Thisis part of Speech delivered during the course of the debate on the "State of Emergency" in1958 june by a Tamil member of parliament.
“…. We are willing to go. Every Tamil man, woman and child is willing to go...We do not want language rights from you. We will look after our language..... Please have Sinhalese only. No Tamil worthy of his name is ever going to study the Sinhalese language. You have stamped it out... We only want the right to live in our areas. We want the right to be able to walk the streets without being molested….”
Here we can realize the fundamental arisen of the concept, “separatism”.
1. Federal Constitution
2. Parity of Status for Tamil and Sinhala languages;
3. Repeal of citizenship laws which had discriminated against Tamils of Indian descent;
4. Immediate halt to the colonisation of the Tamil homelOn 26 July 1957, an agreement was
On 26 July 1957, an agreement was entered into between Mr.S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon and Mr.S.J.V. Chelvanayagam, Leader of the Thamil Arasu Katchi (Federal Party) - the Bandaranaike Chelvanayakam Pact.
The agreement was repudiated by Mr. Bandaranaike in April 1958 in view of a campaign led by the Buddhist clergy and sections of the Sinhala political leadership.
In May and June 1958, was the outcome of that funda¬mental error there were a huge violence had been made against the Tamil people in capital and any part of the country. Gangs of hoodlums made assaults on whom they fine as the Tamil, Genocide were made in 1958 in Srilanka. Incalculable people were assassinated and many made in to as refugee in to the country. The elementary duty of a Government is to afford protection to its subjects, at moment the Srilankan Government failed to afford that protection, negatively they who were in to the government bodies, encourage the riots in order to gain the cheapest political benefits.
Thisis part of Speech delivered during the course of the debate on the "State of Emergency" in1958 june by a Tamil member of parliament.
“…. We are willing to go. Every Tamil man, woman and child is willing to go...We do not want language rights from you. We will look after our language..... Please have Sinhalese only. No Tamil worthy of his name is ever going to study the Sinhalese language. You have stamped it out... We only want the right to live in our areas. We want the right to be able to walk the streets without being molested….”
Here we can realize the fundamental arisen of the concept, “separatism”.