You don’t even know the basics of what’s happening in your country much less Toronto. How can you deny all the evidence of atrocities committed by the Sinhala supremacist state against Tamils? Literally directing them to places where they were supposed to have safe haven and then endlessly shelling it and killing tens of thousands. Militarizing the north and the east, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, etc., continues unabated. Consider some self-reflection rather than reflexive chauvinistic ramblings.

Videos of papare bands at cricket matches.
No idea if Sri Lanka won or lost. I am not a cricket fan
The music is based on hindu kavaadi, jazzified with trumpets and some african origin baila beats thrown in.

sri lanka papare band in action after finished 2ndT20 match sri lanka vs pakistan 13/12/2013
women also have brought musicals to the party, sorry cricket match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agrxbyolvKA

Papare Band Melbourne – After Party in to the night…. (Sri Lanka tour of Australia 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulH3CU_KkN4

Violet
over petty arguments of social superiority.
I dont think we are much better than anyone one else.
The big difference is we think all have abilities and opportunities should be provided to develop those abilities. So more social capital.

Most Indians dont get Sri Lankans Island mentality.
The oft repeated “Win or Loose we Booze” says it all.

Ever seen a video after Sri Lanka looses a cricket match.
One would think Sri Lanka won the match.
Papare bands and dancing.

It was pro bono, meaning that it was done without any remuneration, in part because most of them are poor and in desperate circumstances

Hoju big joke, noh. Yes the refugees are poor but specially in Canada they have a huge support system and deep pockets.

The refugee business is big business and big money. eg the guy who runs a refugee org (oferrindia.org and oferrceylon.com) in India and has a pretty cushy lifestyle. Huge Toyata Land Cruiser with a driver. Eat out at top restaurants.

Hoju, you forget I am a Tamil and quite a few cousins living in Toronto. Plus, visited Toronto a couple times around 2000 during the height of the war. So I get the inside stories.

I think there were mistakes made by Sri Lankan and Pakistani elites in the first decade after partition that have nothing to do with caste.
In the year 1956, Nehru after much convincing and agitations from many states, acceded to linguistic states in India. At roughly the same time, Sri Lanka imposed Sinhala as the sole national language and Jinnah imposed Urdu in Pakistan. Pakistan came apart in 1971. Sri Lanka almost came apart in the mid-80’s. Both the Sri Lankan and Pakistani impositions of a single national language had far reaching consequences.
In the case of Sri Lanka, the Sinhala-Tamil conflict diverted resources from economic development and eventually led to the anointing of the Rajapaksa family as the de-facto rulers of Sri Lanka. The rest is recent history.
Yes, India dabbled in Sri Lanka and also in East Pakistan. But this was after “own” goals were scored by the respective political elites of Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

superior productivity of the Sri Lankan agricultural worker
Is that sarcasm.
SL hs extremely low productivity, specially compared to SE Asia.

Heck we even import rice.

The only thing we dont import are veggis and fish because they spoil.
I think we import tinned fish and dry fish from India

Violet
Sri Lanka is a very very small country, though the perception is that we are much bigger. Population wise, 22 million (too many in my opinion) about the size of greater Mumbai.
We have had 500 years to play the great game because we are in a strategic location. Portuguese, Dutch and finally the Brits. The only reason Brits completely took over was because helped by traitor South Indian Chetty Tomby Mudali, a direct ancestor of former President JR Jayawardena
The history of how the Sinhalese played one European power against the other is taught from around Grade 5. (No Ramayana or Mahabharata).

Now to Debt
Market Borrowings (International Sovereign Bonds) 47%
Asian Development Bank 13%
China 10%
Japan 10%
World Bank 9%
India 2%

ISB are high interest (~10%) and SL has defaulted on them.
The big holders of ISB are BlackRock, JP Morgan Chase, and Prudential (United States), as well as Ashmore Group and HSBC (Britain) and UBS (Switzerland)

China interest 3%.
10% of Debt is about the same as Chinese held US debt 13% and UK debt 10%

The port project was offered to India. China jumped in.
There was no question about default on the Port.
The west leaning liberal economy govt of 2015-2019 needed money.
To fund consumption and keep voters happy (still lost big time in 2019)
The west was not will to fork money out.
So the West leaning PM who had bad mouthed the Chinese bum sucked.
The Chinese had not forgotten, they wanted their pound of flesh, the Port.

The Chinese have deep pockets, plus they are not dependent on the vagaries of a democracy and keeping voters happy.
They own many ports all over the world. eg Port Darwin, Australia, Piraeus, Greece; Haifa in Israel.

US, Europe, World bank etc borrow from China and then lend it back to us third worlders at high interest rate SL cut out the middle men and went direct to the source.

Petrol lines are over since about the beginning of August.
There is ration system with QR code using smart phones.

Two ships of Russian crude due in next couple of day. 100,000 tons of crude on 14th night and 120,000 tons due around 23rd to 29tth. Refining in Sapugaskanda will resume..

And in the US SL Tamils get withholding of removal status. Almost every single one of them. Just establish that you are a Sri Lankan Tamil from the northern part of Sri Lanka.

What happened in SL was entirely predictable since China lent them money. India lacks strategic vision to not let SL to default to China (ie buying the port instead) and now China can engage India closer to home on one aspect of Indian defence that India has advantage on, while they take over Taiwan. Also get to secure Malaya straits once gets hold of Taiwan. Operation String of pearls is finally being activated.

Things are going to get much worse for everyone soon before they get better. But folks are entertained over petty arguments of social superiority. It is also hilarious how one Sri Lankan can engage so many Indians, law of conservation of Ninjitsu in effect. Lol.

One hero fights many goons. Lol.