Showing posts with label tamils. Show all posts
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Friday, 8 May 2009

The Elamites/ Sri lankan Tamils?

Is this lord siva?
The Elamites
The people of Elam (yes in Tamil, Eelam means homeland), were the first to civilise the Iranian Peninsula. in the 2700 BC period. They were contemporaries of the Egyptians, the Mittanis and the Hittites. The Elamites were a significant people. till the 800BC in Persia (modern day Iran).
The Elamites concluded a major treaty with the Akkadian King King Naram-sin (Naram to Narain and Sin is the moon goddess, Chandra; possibly Narayan Chandra). Akkadian language is itself implicated in being in cahoots with Sanskrit and Indus Valley languages – and the creation ans spread of most modern languages except Sino languages. One of the most prominent rulers of Babylon was Nebuchadnezzar (as spelt in English). Replace ‘b’ with ‘d’ and you are very close the Tamil name of Neduncheziyan (Nedunchedianuru) – a current and modern Tamil name. Interestingly, Neduncheziyan is more famous as the fabled erring Pandyan King in the Tamil classic – Silappadhikaaram. Neduncheziyan mistaken justice, brings him grief and finally death. Neduncheziyan is overshadowed by the other King, Cheran Senguttuvan’s fame in the Tamil classic, written by Jain Saint, Elangovadigal.
Where It All Started
The oldest Indian language, not based on Sanskrit, is Tamil. There is 3000 year old history that Tamil language has, which makes it one the oldest, living language. Related languages are in use even today in Pakistan, where the Brahui tribe speaks a related version of the Tamil language. The Brahuis have marriage preferences which are similar to South Indians (cousins preferred in marriage) – rather than North Indians. BRAHUI, a people of Baluchistan, inhabiting the Brahui mountains, which extend continuously from near the Bolan Pass to Cape Monze on the Arabian Sea. The khan of Kalat, the native ruler of Baluchistan, is himself a Brahui, and a lineal descendant of Kumbar, former chief of the Kumbarini, a Brahui tribe. The origin of the Brahuis is an ethnological mystery.The origins of the Brahuis are even more puzzling than those of the Baluch, for their language is not Indo-European at all, but belongs to the same Dravidian family as Tamil and the other languages of south India spoken over a thousand miles away. One theory has it that the Brahuis are the last northern survivors of a Dravidian-speaking population which perhaps created the Indus Valley civilisation, but it seems more likely that they too arrived as the result of a long tribal migration, at some earlier date from peninsular India. Bishop Robert Caldwell and other authorities declare them Dravidians, and regard them as the western borderers of Dravidian India. The Brahuis declare themselves to be the aborigines of the country they now occupy, their ancestors coming from Aleppo. For this there seems little foundation, and their language, which has no affinities with Persian, Pushtu or Baluchi, must be, according to the most eminent scholars, classed among the Dravidian tongues of southern India. Probably the Brahuis are of Dravidian stock, a branch long isolated from their kindred and much Arabized, and thus exhibiting a marked hybridism.
If you are interested in doing further research around Tamils in Sri Lanka, Eelam, Elam, You might want to dig into these papers.
The most of infomation presented here is copied from: View From A Square Prism
http://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/india-the-second-history/
and rest http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Brahui
1.Velars, Uvulars and the North Dravidian Hypothesis
Journal article by David W. Mcalpin; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 123, 2003
2. http://www.harappa.com/index.html
3.http://www.harappa.com/script/maha3.html
4.http://digilander.libero.it/elam/elam/second_column_speech_pf.htm
5. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/anwrite.htm
6. http://books.google.com/booksid=UUiuFvYath0C&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=brahui+tribe+language&source=web&ots=fsJmqL3sEq&sig=lEZEZ5dS5Fvio3atKaGRUKpUtgI 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam

Friday, 1 May 2009

Trail Of Tears


Given the conditions of contemporary civilization, how can one claim that the 'normal' man is sane? The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow men in the last fifty years-laing.

58BC- roman invasion of europe.
Julius Caesar became governor and military commander of the Roman province of Gaul, which at this time included modern france, Belgium, and areas of Switzerland, Holland and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years Caesar led military campaigns in the area. His next target was UK.
In the UK and mainland Europe the Dark Ages are characterised by barbarian invasions. Barbarians were any tribe or group who came from outside the bounds of the old Roman Empire and had not been "civilised". The term "barbarian" means "with a beard" - they generally did not shave unlike Roman men.
At the end of Roman Empire tribes such as the Goths, Vandals, Franks, Hun, Burgundians, Lombards, Picts, Scots, Angles and Saxons all invaded the lands of the disintegrating Western Roman Empire. In 410AD Rome itself was sacked by the Goths. Following this Britannia became self governing but fairly soon after this event was invaded by the Picts, the Scots and later by the Saxons and Angles.

In 1493, when Columbus returned to the Hispaniola, he quickly implemented policies of slavery and mass extermination of the Taino population of the Caribbean. It felt "normal" and the law was created to meet the needs of the SOCIETY. Within three years, five million were dead. Las Casas, the primary historian of the Columbian era, writes of many accounts of the horrors that the Spanish colonists inflicted upon the indigenous population: hanging them en mass, hacking their children into pieces to be used as dog feed, and other horrid cruelties. The works of Las Casas are often omitted from popular American history books and courses because Columbus is considered a hero by many, even today.

Mass killing did not cease, however, after Columbus departed. Expansion of the European colonies led to similar genocides. "Indian Removal" policy was put into action to clear the land for white settlers.

The Medieval History of India was full of genocides. According to Koenraad Elst more than 100 millions hindus were killed by the muslim invaders and perhaps the biggest holocaust in the world. Just in this century Tutsis, Tibetans, Cambodians, Bangladeshis, Gypsies, Ukrainians and Armenians have all suffered more than a million deaths in deliberate actions. Before them died possibly a hundred million natives in North and South America, tens of millions in the slave trade--and unknown millions of Hindus in India as a result of the invasions beginning in the 7th century
1900: Raphael LemkinRaphael Lemkin, who would later coin the word "genocide," is born into a Polish Jewish family in 1900. His memoirs detail early exposure to the history of Ottoman attacks against Armenians.

1915-1917-Armenian Genocide.

1947-1948: Creating an international convention on genocide Raphael Lemkin was a critical force for bringing “genocide” before the nascent United Nations, where delegates from around the world debated the terms of an international law on genocide. On December 8, 1948, the final text was adopted unanimously. The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide entered into force on January 12, 1951, after more than 20 countries from around the world ratified it.

1992- 1995: Wars of the former Yugoslavia
In one small town, Srebrenica, 7,800 Bosnjiak men and boys were murdered by Serbian forces.
1994: From April until July, up to 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi minority group, were killed in Rwanda
2004: Genocide in Darfur more than 100,000 people have been killed; the latter is a figure from the Coalition for International Justice. As many as 2.5 million people are thought to have been displaced as of October 2006.
1948-2009: Genocide of Tibetians:
China has for 40 years been engaged in a relentless program to destroy the Tibetan people, their culture and religion. Little or nothing has been done about it, particularly by the ever-impotent UN.
1948-2009: Genocide of tamils (hindus) in sri lanka, a place called Vanni continues in the name of "war on terrorism" more than 7000 pe0ple got killed, more than 20 000 wounded according to UN. International community is still keeping the silence as india, china, pakistan, russia are supporting supporting the sri lankan government??????? Politics !
I am truly sorry. I dont know what to say. Is there anything I could do?