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BBC: In pictures: Women in Sri Lanka conflict. ⇒

   9 May 2006, lunch time

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  1. I’m naive – is there a short explanation for the conflict in Sri Lanka…

    by Ryan on May 10 2006, 12:15 am   #

  2. Not really, but briefly: the country has a majority Singhalese population, and a minority Tamil population. The two groups don’t get along, mostly over issues of language. There is a lot of discrimination in the way the country works against the Tamil minority, and no real way to address it through the political system, because its essentially majority rules in Sri Lanka, and the ethnic majority rule in their interest alone.

    I imagine now the two sides don’t get along because they have been killing each other for the past 20 odd years.

    by ramanan on May 10 2006, 1:07 am   #

  3. There’s never a short answer for wars, but oversimplifying, it boils down to language and education.
    Moreover, nothing has changed.
    Usual caveats regarding the sources applies.

    by Haran on May 24 2006, 4:02 am   #

  4. I totally missed the story about official correspondence from the Ministry of Education—classic. I actually wrote the previous comment several times, trying to distil the whole conflict down to a paragraph, which is very tricky.

    by ramanan on May 24 2006, 12:33 pm   #

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