As a schoolboy, teacher, accountancy student and accountant, octogenarian author Suppiramaniam Makenthiran has had the experience of observing Plantation Tamils in the tea estates of Sri Lanka and possesses intimate knowledge of the squalor, economy and political conditions in which they have lived.  In continuation of its series on the rights of Eelam Tamils, this first-person report which was first published in by WSN in February 2008, is still relevant and provides a genesis of the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.  Living in … Continue reading Eelam Tamils, Plantation Tamils and Sri Lanka -the genesis of a conflict