THE HISTORY OF TAMIL EELAM
For more than 2500 years Ceylon has consisted of two Nations, the Sinhalese Nation and the Tamil Nation. Because of fundamental differences of language, religion, culture, social customs and traditional ways of life, these two races polarized into two distinct Peoples, each gravitating in its distinct territory, with the Tamils mainly in the North, East and North Western parts of the Island and the Sinhalese in the rest of the Island. These territories constituted the separate Tamil and Sinhala homelands in the Island with separate kingdoms of the Tamils and Sinhalese and peripheral chieftainships like those in the Tamil Vanni region.
