1. The Tamil claim to a ‘homeland’ in the north-east of the Island is based on the claimed existence of a Tamil kingdom as a result of an invasion during the 13th Century. Yet, since not only were there Sinhela kingdoms in the same area both before and after this Tamil kingdom, a Tamil claim based on an imperialist occupation during a tiny slot in history cannot have more validity than the rights of the indigenous Sinhelas.

2. If this Tamil claim on the basis of an imperialist invasion is valid, then the Portuguese and the Dutch invaders would also be entitled to re-claim the colonial areas in Sri Lanka occupied by their own empires in the 16-18 centuries, and the British would have a claim to the entire Island based on their conquest and occupation from 1815 - 1948. Indeed, the British would be also able to re-claim much of the world (also India, including the Tamil motherland Tamil Nadu) on the basis of their own imperialist conquests. On the same basis, the Italians too would have a claim to England (and all of Europe and beyond) on the basis of the Roman Empire’s occupation for more than 450 years. And there would be similar ‘rights’ of the Mongolians, on the basis of the conquests by Genghis Khan..!

3. In fact, the implicit recognition during the Twentieth Century that a nation is entitled only to its own motherland (and that the occupation of any other nation’s land is colonialism and a violation of the human rights of the indigenous people of that land) led to all the imperial nations - Britain, France, Spain etc. – relinquishing their claims to the countries they invaded, and they are all now confined to their own motherlands.

4. The Tamils therefore, like all other nations, are entitled only to their motherland, Tamil Nadu (in south India), which is twice the size of Sri Lanka and has a population of 62 million Tamils. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, is the motherland of the Sinhela nation, which alone is entitled to it.