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• ETHNIC COMPOSITION IN     SRI LANKA

• SRI LANKA IS A MULTI ETHNIC NATION. HINDUISM , CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAMIC RELIGION WERE ALSO PRACTISED.

• TAMILS - 18% INDIAN TAMILS - 5%                      SRI LANKAN TAMILS - 13%

• SINHALA - 74%

• THEIR WERE ABOUT 7% CHRISTIANS WHO WERE BOTH SINHALA AND TAMIL SPEAKING.

• ACCOMODATIN IN SRI LANKA

• AFTER INDEPENDENCE IN 1948 LEADERS OF SINHALA COMMUNITY TOOK MAJORITARIAN MEASURES TO ESTABLISH POWER.

• 1956 ACT WAS PASSED WHICH FAVOURED SINHALA LANGUAGE AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE, STATE PROMOTED BUDDHISM ACCORDING TO NEW CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES ALSO FAVOURED SINHALA SPEAKING PEOPLE .

• BY 1980 SEVERAL POLITICAL ORGANISATION LIKE LTTE WERE FORMED .

• THIS LED TO CIVIL WAR AND DURING CIVIL WAR MANY PEOPLE DIED . MANY PEOPLE LOOSE THEIR LIVELIHOOD AND MANY MIGRATED AFTER THE WAR.