Describe any three demands of the Sri Lankan Tamils. How did they struggle for their demands
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Answer:
Three demands of Sri Lankan Tamils
i) Their language i.e. the Tamil should be given equal status with that of the Sinhala language.
ii) Their should be no discrimination between them and the Sinhala residents of Sri Lanka in government jobs and university posts.
iii) Their religion whether Hinduism or Christianity should be equally respected with that or Buddhism.
iv) They should be given equal political rights.
How did they struggle for their Demands.
i) They launched struggles for the fulfilment of their above demands.
ii) They established several political organisations and demanded regional autonomy.
iii) They started some sort of a civil war when their legitimate demands were denied by the Lankan government.
Explanation:
✔‘Sri Lankan Tamils’ started their struggle by lanching their political parties for the;
(i) recognition of Tamil as an official language and regional autonomy.
(ii) For regional autonomy.
(iii) Equality of opportunity in securing education and jobs.
⭐In order to protest for their demand they started a political struggle in the way of conflict with the government.
(i) By 1980s several political organisation were formed demanding an independent Tamil Elam (State) in northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka.
(ii) The distrust between the two communities turned into wide spread conflict which soon turned into a civil war.
(iii) Asa resultthousandsofpeopleof posh communities have been killed and caused a terrible set back to the social, cultural and economic life of the country.
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