Suffering from the consequences of ethnic separatism, Sri Lanka has been embarked in ethnic conflict amongst its Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority for decades.
Following British rule in 1815, Tamils from India were shipped to Sri Lanka by the British for slave labor, while the Tamil middle class were educated to rule the colony. After the country’s independence in 1948, the new elite took control vowing to replace the English language with Sinhalese. Armed with Read the rest of this entry »
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