Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 116 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5086-1681-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The ethnic conflict of Sri Lanka is a conflict mainly between Sinhalese and Tamils and conflict between Tamils and Muslims. The conflict started to appear when Kalinga Magha, a Tamil invader claiming Kalinga (Orissa) lineage invaded Kingdom of Rajarata in 1215. He invaded the North part of Sri Lanka with a huge Pandyan army. From 1215 to 1326 significant Tamil migration happened from India to Sri Lanka in the form of invasions. They settled mainly in the Jaffna Peninsula. Small settlements were also occurred in Vanni. Many battles erupted between Sinhalese and Tamils between 1215 to 1450. But during the times of Portuguese, Dutch, British; conflicts between Sinhalese and Tamils settled down. They tried to cooperate with each other to face the common enemy. But since the later stage of British administration and after the independence, conflicts started rising again. It started as a political battle for power in the Parliament. In the 20th...