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What is going on In SRILANKA is not a relligious fighting or persecutiom. It is a fight between the Government by Singaleese (Srilankans) and Tamils living in Srilanka. The Tamils want the country to be devided on the basis of language spoken by the people and want a seperate state for the ethnic and cultural and Tamil groups..

History - Guerrilla organization seeking to establish an independent Tamil state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. Formed in 1972, it is considered one of the world's most sophisticated and tightly organized insurgent groups. By 1985 it controlled the port of Jaffna and most of the Jaffna Peninsula in northern Sri Lanka. After losing control of Jaffna in 1987, it carried out several attacks, including the assassinations of the Sri Lankan president and the former Indian prime minister and a suicide bombing that killed 100 people in the capital, Colombo. Negotiations between the Tigers and the government broke down in the mid-1990s, and fighting subsequently intensified until February 2002, when a permanent cease-fire agreement was signed. Sporadic violence continued, however, and in 2006 the European Union added the Tigers to its list of banned terrorist organizations. Soon after, heavy fighting erupted between the rebels and government forces...

2007-05-30 17:30:55 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 2 0

Militant Bhuddists (this is about the only place they exist) have been going after Christians for the last couple of years. The tamils are fighting the gov., I don't know if that's so much religious as ethnic.

2007-05-30 15:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 0 1

Its a fight between government and terrorism

2007-05-31 10:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

tamil tigers...muslim whack jobs attacking christians and budhists and the government etc...

2007-05-30 15:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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