What is majoritarianism measures
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Majoritarianism:- A belief that the majority community should be able to rule a country in whichever way it wants, by disregarding the wishes and needs of the minority.
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- (i) Government adopted majoritarian measure to establish Sinhala Supremacy. In 1956, an Act was passed to recognise Sinhala as the only official language thus disregarding Tamil.
- (ii) The governments followed preferential politics that favoured Sinhala applicants for university positions and government jobs.
- (iii) A new Constitution stipulated that the state shall protect and foster Buddhism.
- (iv) Sri Lankan Tamils felt that none of the major political parties led by the Buddhist Sinhala leaders were sensitive to their language and culture.
- (v) As a result, the relations between the Sinhala and Tamil communities strained overtime and it soon turned into a Civil War.
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