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I strongly believed that Sri Lanka belongs to the Sinhalese, but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people, They can live in this country with us. But they must not try to, under the pretext of being a minority, demand undue things.
During 1988, when my wife and I lived in Sri Lanka for an extended period,its murder rate was one of the world's highest.
Sri Lanka long has been described as a paradise by travellers.
Sri Lanka's problems were caused by too much democracy.
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
If Buddhism preaches nonviolence,why is there so much political violence in Sri Lanka today?
The main question I shall probe is the extent to which, and the manner in which, Buddhism, as a religion espoused by Sri Lankans of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has contributed to the current ethnic conflict and collective violence in Sri Lanka.
For years, Sri Lanka was viewed as a model developing nations. It gained independence peacefully and sustained one of the feew authentically competitive democratic systems in the Global south.
SWRD Bandaranaike altered Sri Lanka's political landscape forever by beginning vocally advocate an overtly populist,pro-Sinhalese and pro-Buddhist political agenda.
The history of post-independence Sri Lanka, from a Sri Lankan Tamil perspective, is a history of lost privileges, intensifying discrimination, failure of democratic institutions to protect their rights and finally,coercion by an overwhelmingly Sinhalese security establishment.
Many younger elite Sri Lankans,especially young Tamils, have capitalised on foreign university credentials and their parents' dwindling wealth to escape from the daily stress and tragedy of life on the island.
Sri Lanka's problems were caused by too much democracy.
Sri Lanka's problems were caused by declining even-handedness and transparency of its democratic processes and institutions.
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