what is the recent history behind the tussle going on in Sri Lanka? i want to know why Sri Lanka is again in n
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Sri Lanka was a British colaney and the English brought Tamil people from India to work in tea estates which they started. So many of them were brought and now they want a seperate state saying that this was their motherland. But does UK help Sri Lanka in this conflict ? No.They just give out smug ideas and advice.
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Sri Lanka is a secular state and belongs to the people
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problem; political war due to decolonisation without leaving a proper government behind. (this is a VERY VERY brief explanation)\n\nsolution; hmm.. if there was an easy one they probably would have thought about it and put in to action by now.Till then all that the advanced countries will do is send supplies, medical stuff and blue helmet soldiers(to make the situation even worse lol).\n\nThis is an interesting question, i'm sorry that my answer is so mean, but if I were you I'd look up for the answers my self so that I get better chances of understanding and remembering the information. I think I'll make a study about ti right now ^^
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i dunno but u can check out this site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/default.stm
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Here is what i found--\n\n"The recent events that took place in Tirumala Tirupathi are disheartening to every Hindu. It is stunning to find that nearly 50 Christian families are settled on Tirumala hill and no less than 20 persons of Christianity are employed in TT devastanam.\n\nThese families conducted Christmas prayers on the Tirumala Hill, which goes to prove the complacency of the TTD Board. These Christian elements are audacious enough to distribute Christian pamphlets to devotees going to Tirupathi Temple. What is the Devastanam's vigilance department doing? Such brazen acts on the part of Christians makes one suspect that these people are willy-nilly supported by the TTD Board.\n\nAdded to this sad state of affairs is the latest move by the authorities recognizing Tirumala as a township with the temple jurisdiction restricted to 27.5 sq.km. This move it is widely believed that this step is meant to make way for construction of Church(es?) on Tirumala hills. Above events lend evidence to this belief. Otherwise what is the reason to reduce the sacred seven hills area of 243 to 27.5 sq. km? They're drastically reducing the jurisdiction of Devastanams. Reducing the Lord Venkateswara's seven hills to two hills is an affront to religious sentiments of Hindus.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor, Dean and other functionaries of Padmavati University are believing Christians and they are forcing the students to participate in Christian Prayers, taking them to Church in vehicles owned by the University, conducting Christian religious propaganda in SV University Hostels, distributing Christian literature in educational institutions are some of the Christian activities that deeply perturb Hindu community.\n\nThe offerings made by devotees in Lord Balaji's Hundi should be used only for Hindu religion, spiritual activities. With that object in view the Hindu Dharma Prachara Samstha was started in the year 1968. But later in the year 1982 the word Hindu was removed from its name changing it to Dharma Prachara Parishat. The motive behind the change in name is to divert the huge funds offered by the devotees to Lord Sri Venkateswara as token of their religious devotion to populist Government schemes.\n\nAs a part of that move Rs. 500 crores worth of Hundi money is ought to be diverted in the name of "Irrigation Bonds". Going the way Govt. misutilization of public funds. How the religious funds are going to be spent in any one's guess. Thus to divert the money offered by devotees with specific religious motives to non-religious purpose is clear case of subversion of Hindu religion.\n\nTirumala is the most sacred place. To convert it into a tourist, recreational center as the Govt. is planning, is the sure way to ultimately make it in to a pleasure resort. This is reprehensible.\n\nIf the sacred Tirumala Temple Township is degraded in this fashion, where is the place left for Hinduism? What is the fate of Hindu Society?\n\nLet us all wake up before it is too late. Let us resolve to fight out to protect the sanctity and property of sacred TT Kshetram through all possible democratic means. Let us resolve to denote all our mite and might in this regard.\n\nSome Evidence from Telugu News Papers\n\n1. Bus No. AP11 Z 1130 belonging to RTC left Tirumala at 5.30 P.M. on Sunday 9.4.06 for Tirupathi. One Balaraju boarded the bus along with three others. They carried a handbag full of Christian Literature and started distributing the same to the passengers. The passengers objected to the distribution of Christian Pamphlets. Among those who objected was one Mr. Aravind a resident of Parimala Apartments of Kothapet, Hyderabad. (Andhra Jyothi – 10 April, 2006)\n\n2. Christian Propaganda in S.V.University – Students confront the Pastor:\n\nOn 11th April 2006 students belonging to TNSF and ABVP students unions obstructed the Christian carrying on propaganda within University campus. The enraged students vehemently opposed pasto
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Hmmmm.....tough to say because the people whom we want to bring charges against are the law makers themselves. There is a strong reason for putting up charges agains Bush and Blair in the Internation Criminal Court (some people didn't know the full form here) or Cour internationale de Justice/ International court of jusitce. Both these two have waged an illegal war (as per the United Nations charter on going to conflict and war) and both have violated some serious international laws\n\nIn UK some people already tried to bring charges against Blair.\n\nBut here we are talking about fighting against big countries and powerful people...every country has done some or the other wrong thing...China's government is blamed for gross Human Rights abuses, Indian government for supporting the terrorist organizations like LTTE in Sri Lanka and Maoist terrorists in Nepal and many others in South Asia...but hmmm...\n\nWe don't live in a perfect world and people can run away from the crime as long as they have the power and occupy the places that matter.
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I'm an old timer who got interested in Sri Lank forty years ago. I was fascinated by the Kandy Empire, the legend of Adam's peak, the singing shellfish at Lake Batticaloa, the construction of the ancient tanks among many other things. I read a book that I still find interesting called "Jungle Tide". I forget the author's name but he must have written it during the British occupation as he was English. I am sure there are many other fascinating archaeological and educational opportunities in your country, which, I regret, I never did visit. Still, after 40 years, my interest has been retained by what I read. My very best wishes with your project.
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You are in a time warp. Slavery ended nearly 60 years ago. You are sure you haven't woken up from deep sleep like Rip Van Winkle or better still Kumbhkaran ? We are a free democratic country with duly elected government by people now in the year 2006..Wake up buddy !
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Unfortunately television is the way most people get their news...there are all sorts of issues that we Americans went forever without hearing turmoil in Sri Lanka...mass genocide in Africa just be glad that TV still gives some issues a voice otherwise everyone in this country that didn't read would be clueless...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka\n\nThe ongoing ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is between elements of the majority Sinhalese and minority Sri Lankan Tamils. Since 1983, there has been on-and-off civil war, mostly between the government (dominated by Sinhalese, although including some members of other ethnic groups, including Tamils) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE, who want to create an independent Tamil Eelam state in the northeast of the island. It is calculated that the war has left 65,055 people dead since 1983 and has caused great harm to the population and economy of the country. A cease-fire was declared in 2002, but incidents of violence in late 2005 and early 2006 led to fears of a renewed civil war.\n\nThere had been high hopes that the devastating Tsunami of December 2004 would force the government and Tamil rebels into a new, lasting dialogue to address the serious effects of the disaster on Sri Lanka as a whole. But these hopes were dashed by almost immediate accusations of bias and favouritism on the part of international aid agencies from both sides. In the spring of 2006, deep political unease and suspicion remained between the two factions, which resulted in the sinking of two government gunships by Tiger terrorists, while trying to sink a ship carrying around 700 unarmed army personnel. The ship was sailing under the flag of International Monitoring Mission and, there were Peace Monitoring officers on board. In self defence, the government sank five Tiger vessels and later bombarded Tiger strongholds.
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There has been 30 years of increased tension between these old enemies since Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus and occupied the Northern half (majority Turkish Cypriots) and evicted the Greek Cypriots to live in the Southern half.\n\nThere are also other disputed islands and patches of seawater!\n\nDespite the fact that a Greek and a Turkish F16 collided with each other whilst "dogfighting" and playing war over some disputed airspace last week and the Greek pilot was killed, both sides have played the incident down.\n\nThe reason is that Turkey is trying to join the European Union and therefore everyone is behaving themselves.\n\nTen years ago it would have been the pretext for war.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_lanka\n\nPrehistory\nArchaeological evidence suggests that the island now known as Sri Lanka might have been inhabited up to 125,000 years ago. Paleolithic human settlements by 125,000 year-old people using chert and quartz tools have been discovered at excavations in several cave sites in the Western Plains region and the South-western face of the Central Hills region. Paleo-anthropologists have shown that burial rites and certain decorative artifacts exhibit similarities between the first inhabitants of the island and the early inhabitants of southern India. One of the first written references to the island is found in the Indian epic Ramayana. The main written accounts of the country's history are the Buddhist chronicles of Mahavansa and Dipavansa.\n\n[edit]\nAncient history\nHistory of Sri Lanka\nseries \nEarly Sri Lankan History \nEuropean Occupation of Sri Lanka \nSri Lanka Independence Struggle \nIndependence of Sri Lanka \nEthnic conflict in Sri Lanka \nAccording to legend, the written history of the Sinhala people of the island begins with the arrival of an Indian prince named Vijaya and his followers. The story goes that when Vijaya arrived, there were indigeneous people already living in the country. Vijaya made a relationship with the queen of the indegenous people, Kuwani. Kuwani accepted Vijaya because she realized that her people could not successfully fight him. She gave birth to a son and daughter. There are two primary opinions about Vijaya's origins. Some historians believe that he set sail from what is now Orissa, while linguists point out that ancient Sinhala is closer to Sanskrit which is the basis for most Indian languages. Buddhism arrived from the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BC thanks to Arahath Mahinda Thero, missionary of Buddhist Indian Emperor Ashoka, and spread rapidly. Asoka requested his son Mahinda (Mahinda Thero) to spread Buddhism in Sri Lanka as a favour for his best friend King Devanampiyatissa, king of Sri Lanka.\n\nAlthough the country's history is dominated by Sinhalese peoples, some chronicles do mention the presence of Tamil speaking people. There is no clearly established date for the arrival of Dravidian people on the island, but it is thought to have occurred soon after that group reached South India. South Indian kingdoms invaded Sri Lanka on several occasions because of the prosperity of the country, and parts of the island, especially areas close to India, were ruled at times by Dravidian dynasties such as the Cholas, Pandyas, Cheras and Pallavas. The island was also invaded and ruled by Kings of Kalinga (present-day Indian state of Orissa) and Malay Straits. In general, when Sinhalese kings became aware of Tamils' presence in the country they were able to expel them to India; however, Tamils were established on the island by the time the colonial period began.\n\n \nLanding of King Vijaya depicted in a paintingFrom the ancient period date some remarkable archaeological sites including the ruins of Sigiriya, the so-called "Fortress in the Sky", and huge public works. Among the latter are large "tanks" or reservoirs, important for conserving water in a climate that alternates rainy seasons with dry times, and elaborate aqueducts, some with a slope as finely calibrated as one inch to the mile (1:60,000).\n\n[edit]\nColonial rule\nIn 1505 the Portuguese arrived on the island, and colonial rule began. At that point the island consisted of several autonomous kingdoms, such as those of Yarlpanam (Anglicised Jaffna) in the north and Kandy in the central hills. The Dutch arrived in the 17th century. During Portuguese and Dutch rule of coastal areas, the interior, hilly region of the island remained independent, with its capital in Kandy. Great Britain replaced the Dutch in 1796, and the coastal areas became a crown colony in 1802. After the fall of Kandy kingdom in 1815, the British unified it with the 'l
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the Tamils have no choice but 2 revolt.The Sri Lankan gov is racist and tortures them.i heard there was a time wen they even killed the tamils and sold their meat.I don noe bout malaysia but in s'pore we r multiracial and united we(tamils) don get bullied by others.
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i guess to stop these ltte's from placing mines and killing innocent women and children.  if the tigers are so f'ing hot, why dont they face the sri lankan army like men instead of lizards?  you should bite into that cyanide vial you probably carry around your neck too.  do the world a favor.  damn terrorists
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http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items03/260703-2.html
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Ok.. We can find a few reasons as to why the British media don't praise the Lankans. I think the most obvious reason is this. When England won the Ashes against the Aussies, the British media "overrated" the British team "unnecessarily" and now the team has lost its pride as they're being trashed by Sri Lanka..Is it something that the British media has expected? Is there any way that the British media is going to put all blame on the British team now? No, because they know they are the ones who overrated the team a few months back.. So, the only thing they can do is to point out all those lame excuses. I don't think that England can come up with the same "injury" excuse over and over again. Even Sri Lanka is now out of some top players including Marvan,Dilhara and Murali. Therefore, they cannot take injuries as an excuse. The other reason is, they always say that the Asian cricket teams ( India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) struggle outside the subcontinent. So, when they are being trashed by the Lankans in their home soil, it is something that they can't take.. Another reason is that the media knows whatever they put in their  media in favour of Sri Lanka is gonna hit headlines in other news papers outside England. So, rather than saying that the Lankans are better than England, they just keep saying that injuries caused most of the defeats. After the 3rd match ODI, how many  British papers praised Jayawardene's century? Is it an easy task to hit three centuries by three batsmen in three games? England is not suffering from poor batting but bowling department is a bit poor but as a leading cricketing nation, they should be able to replace the injured with some top class players. Take Australia as an example. Sri Lanka is way behind England as far as the player facilities are concerned but they make the best use out of their talented players. Let's see what England have to say when they are defeated 5-0.. Let's hope they can come up with a better excuse than injuries.
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Let's see.. The LTTE is on record as a terrorist organization. \n\nThe LTTE extorts money from Tamil commuties in Canada and other expat communities. \n\nThe LTTE is responsible for atrocities. \n\nSo, yeah. They should be prevented from operating, fundraising, etc.