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The day the worm turned - kurukaalapoovan - 12-02-2005
Tamils learnt a valuable lesson. Their votes may decide which Sinhala politician is elected president, but absolutely nothing more. So, Tamils made the obvious deduction: there is no "parliamentary path" to secure Tamil national rights.
And most Tamils in the Tamil-majority North East Province (NEP) took the lesson to heart. On the 17th they turned away from the Sinhala presidential candidates for the first time. Tamils refused to vote.
They made Rajapakse sound pathetically hollow, when he alleged he is, "the president of all communities of my country" in his inaugural address. Hereafter Rajapakse is a SINHALA president who will represent Sinhala interests when addressing Tamils and their leader, Veluppillai Prabakaran.
This has sent shock waves of tsunamic proportions irreversibly altering the political landscape.....
More: http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?...ID=3636&SID=528