Rajapaksa fears the expat Tamils more than anybody else

By Brian Senewiratne   09 Dec 2011

Posted 08-Dec-2011 Vol 2 Issue 49 Sinhalese are now learning that the guns that mowed Tamils will next be turned on them, says Brian Senewiratne, an Australia based Sinhalese doctor in the fourth and last of a series for TWL. (Also Read: First Part, Second Part, Third Part)  The Government of Sri Lanka claims that the Tamil Tigers were the problem. The reality is that they were not the problem but the result of the problem. The ‘problem’ was, and still is, Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism, and Sinhala political opportunism to get the votes of the majority Sinhalese (74% of the population) to get into or remain in power.             Read More