It is a small Island having 66,000 sq.meters of area. 80% of the 19m population are ethnic Sinhalese, while the rest comprises of tamil,muslam, and burgher communities. They fought together to win independence from the British colonial rulers. The british regime created a distinguished and previleged class to help their administrative machinery which was run entirely in English language. To reject the injustice done to common people, "sinhalese only" slogan was put forward by the majority of the people who are sinhalese. In this process, they forgot the tamil language, but they did not intend to consider tamil as an inferior language. However, after they realised the mistake, the rulers tried to correct it, but the attempts were foiled by the opporsition. However, now the people have accepted the equality. Other than in the north of the country, every university (free education) is made available to people belonging to any ethnic group, and lot of tamil students are studying in south.
2006-08-29 05:42:34 · 4 answers · asked by future_mathematician 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I would give a confederacy a chance. Its worked in Switzerland for about 600 years, they have catholics, protestants, French, Autstrian, German ethic groups and each Canton is more or less self governing.
2006-08-29 06:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
India needs to stop funding the insurgents and let the Sri Lankans decide their own destiny.
2006-08-29 05:48:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
India must be forced to stop its policy of destabilisation ,who arms the Tamils.
2006-08-29 05:47:32 · answer #3 · answered by joseph m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nuke it
2006-08-29 05:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by Edward B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋