31. What was the reason of the Civil War in Sri Lanka? What was its impact on
the country?
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Explanation:
Since others already gave the correct answer, I like to give an answer from another perspective. Reason for the Civil war is people close minded view on other community. this mindset is not belong to particular community. All community in Sri Lanka have these kind of people. Following changes in our system is necessary to get our country to the right path.
1. Urge the Government to be secular and modifying the constitution as secular.
2. Making all school in the Island as secular as well. and banning any kind of religious activity inside the school. Except dedicated religious establishments such as madrasa for Muslims and Monastery for Buddhist etc.
3. Making English as the primary language in the Island; Government, Working places and Educational institutions.
4. Removing the Community enclaves and encourage the mixing of all community all over the island.
5. Teaching the basics for a peaceful community including openness, inclusiveness, communication skills and philosophy in school as a compulsory subject.
6. Introducing a subject in Schools with all religion's core belief. How they try do bring peace to the world, how they share exact same element among them, how and where they differ and how people abuse their own religion by using violence in the name of religion. Letting the students discuss about different religion will bring best result.
7. Reducing the unemployment, building the economy and improving the life of all citizen.
8. Discouraging the communal politics and encouraging the politicians and masses towards the secular politics which serves all same sugarless of their different identity.
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In the late 20th century, the island nation of Sri Lanka tore itself apart in a brutal civil war. At the most basic level, the conflict arose from the ethnic tension between Sinhalese and Tamil citizens. In reality, though, the causes were much more complex and arose in large part because of Sri Lanka's colonial history Background
Great Britain ruled Sri Lanka—then called Ceylon—from 1815 to 1948. When the British arrived, the country was dominated by Sinhalese speakers whose ancestors likely arrived on the island from India in the 500s BEFORE COMMON ERA. Sri Lankian people seem to have been in contact with Tamil speakers from southern India since at least the second BEFORE COMMON ERA , but migrations of significant numbers of Tamils to the island appear to have taken place later, between the seventh and 11th centuries CE.
In 1815, the population of Ceylon numbered about three million predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese and 300,000 mostly Hindu Tamils. The British established huge cash crop plantations on the island, first of coffee, and later of rubber and tea. Colonial officials brought in approximately a million Tamil speakers from India to work as plantation laborers. The British also established schools in the northern, Tamil-majority part of the colony, and preferentially appointed Tamils to bureaucratic positions, angering the Sinhalese majority.
This was a common divide-and-rule tactic in European colonies that had troubling results in the post-colonial era in places such as Rwanda and Sudan.