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clarification is required about the title of this article. I refer only
to a narrow segment, a very narrow segment, of the Tamils, not the
totality of them, or the generality or the majority of them. Does that
very narrow segment of Tamils merit a two or three part article? I
believe they do for several reasons. By and large the relations between
Muslims and Tamils are quite satisfactory. In fact, I am told, that
there is better rapport between the Muslims and the Tamils – the
Tamil-speaking peoples - than there is between either of them and the
Sinhalese. It is only in the Eastern Province that Muslim-Tamil
relations are troubled, already I suspect to a fairly serious extent.
There the Tamil lunatic fringe anti-Muslim racists could come to play a
catalytic role in creating yet another monstrous ethnic problem in Sri
Lanka.