What is the root cause of the Tamil Problem in Sri Lanka? Is it language or something else?

Tamil is an Official language in Sri Lanka and every Sri Lankan Tamil can have their education in their mother tong up to University level. No other country provides this facility where there is a large minority of Tamils. The Tamil problem stems from British colonial era of the country due to Britain’s vicious divide-and-rule policies which made the Tamils, especially Jaffna Tamils, a privilege community over the Sinhalese majority of the country during their rule as the Sinhalese were not willing to corporate with the British rulers. The British kept on snatching lands from Sinhalese with vengeance and committed atrocities against them through out the island during their 100 year brutal rule and drastically changed the ethnic demographics by bringing in Indian Tamil/Telengu speaking plantation workers to Sri Lanka. With the independence in 1948 what Sri Lanka attempted was to minimise the cl differences created by Britain by way of providing access to education in local vernaculars -Sinhala/Tamil for all her citizens and giving the languages their due places in the Public Administration fields. Sinhalese was made the official language as it was the majority’s language and like in any other democracy majority gradually became the rulers. Sinhalese did not crush Tamil culture and they did not impose Sinhalese on Tamils rather what they did was promoting both cultures at the expense of English, the impact of which was felt equally by the English educated Sinhalese and Tamils. However the Tamils took the switching back to local languages in the administration spheres as a blow to them and their culture when infact it was English and the cultures of English educated Tamils and Sinhalese which were losing ground. As Tamils comprised mostly the then English educated elite in post independent Sri Lanka their actions and campaigns against the majority in the name of preserving their culture coupled with later economic difficulties with the opening up of the economy in 1977 which resulted in the loss of market value for Tamil farmers’ products over cheap imports, prepared the foundations and breeding grounds for radical uneducated elements like Prabakaran who saw only injustices caused by the Majority Sinhalese comfortably forgetting that their culture was not at stake under Sinhalese but heeded to the venom spewed out by the Tamil elite cl created by Britain who were agitating to regain their privileges masquerading as crusaders of Tamil rights. The whole problem of ethnic strife is a legacy of the Britain. It should be noted that Sri Lanka is only 62 years old since independence and wounds inherited and inflicted upon the inhabitants for more than hundred years during the British rule will take some more time to heal. Tamils who comprise only 10% of the total population of Sri Lanka do not have unique problems which are different to that of Sinhalese, both communities have the same set of economic problems but their perceptions are different due to one being the majority and the other the minority. It has to be remembered that Tamils as a race fiercely guard their culture and language against actual or the perceived threats from out side and they have the notion that they used to rule the whole of Asia in the past. The Jaffna Tamils specially boast of that their language is much purer than the South Indian Tamil but they forget that the purity in their speech is mainly due to the free quality Tamil education provided by the Sri lankan Government whereas in India it was only recently that Tamil was made compulsory in Tamilnadu- the authentic home land of Tamils. Therefore, it is imperative for any Sri Lankan Gvt to understand the problems perceived by Tamils as arising due to being Tamils and provide concrete counter arguments to eliminate the misconceptions amongst them.