Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
It is not my intention to recapitulate all you know about your former colony, Ceylon. Political convenience prompted a name change to Sri Lanka, as other beneficial changes were beyond the Sinhala leadership. People take responsibility to help themselves and thrive only in free societies. Tamils shelved this important factor of life in the name of unity. Total abdication from their pledge to your government and to the Tamil people left no alternative for the Tamils but to seek independence from Sinhala hegemony.

Don Stephen Senanayake the first Prime Minister of Ceylon, in his “(Tamils) great men of the last generation” speech in Parliament on November 8, 1945, fooled everybody:

“I put this question bluntly to my Tamil friends. Do you want to be governed from London or do you want, as Ceylonese, to help govern Ceylon? … I am glad that there is hope in the hearts of the minorities. There is determination on our part to cement the good feelings that exist in the Country now. My good friend the Member for Balangoda (Mr. Molamure) and the Minister of Local Administration have given to our feelings, and can assure those communities that every Sinhalese here is worthy of the trust placed in us and will not disgrace our ancestors. We shall see that good feeling is fostered as far as the Sinhalese, to the best of our ability.”

By the Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1949 and by the Ceylon (Parliament Elections) Amendment Act No. 48 of 1949, D. S. Senanayake did countenance the betrayal of Tamils, within a few months.

Mr. Prime Minister, your government has a moral obligation to protect Tamil interests, if not any legal responsibility, for failing to act, when the only protection under the Soulbury Constitution was cleverly mitigated in promoting Sinhala chauvinism with the unilaterally adopted 1972 Sri Lanka Constitution that left the Tamils destitute.

Unlike successive governments of the United States, your government is fully aware of the antics of the Sri Lankan Government and particularly that of the Foreign Minister a foreigner among Tamils. His threats and tantrum could be ignored in the light of the belated “mea culpa’ by Lord Soulbury:

“Unhappily and for reasons indicated by Mr. Farmer, the death of Mr. D. S. Senanayake led to the eventual adoption of a different policy which he would never have countenanced. Needless to say the consequences have been bitter disappointment to myself and to my fellow Commissioners. While the Commission was in Ceylon, the speech of certain Sinhala politicians calling for the solidarity of the Sinhalese and threatening of the suppression of Tamils emphasized the need for constitutional safe guards on behalf of that and other minorities, despite the confidence felt by the Commission in Mr. D. S. Senanyake and any Government under his control.”
 - (Soulbury's Foreword, B. H. Farmer, Ceylon: A Divided Nation.)