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Sri Lank A Diverse Population Of Ethnic Groups

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large and continuous outpour of refugees from Sri Lanka, the result this has had on surrounding countries such as Indian, Australia and some south east Asian countries. This case also accurately communicates the difficulties financially, physically, mentally and emotionally on refugees whilst fleeing their countries and seeking asylum. It is also indicates that refugees struggle with these same difficulties with the added complication of the language barrier and other social and cultural issues when trying to build their new life once granted asylum. origin of this group is from the Tamil Nadu state in India with the majority of this group practice Hinduism, though there is a significant amount that are Christian. The Tamil group is the …show more content…

Throughout the 1960s the Tamils were continually discriminated as Buddhism received primary placement within the state as well as a limit was put on the amount of Tamils employed by the state and admitted into higher learning institutions. To try and solve the statelessness issue of the Tamils in 1964 the Sri Lankan and Indian government signed the Srimavo-Shastri pact and both governments agreed on a three point solution. The first point was that 525,000 Tamils and their natural increase would be granted citizenship and be repatriated to India. The second point was that 300,000 Tamils and their natural increase would be given Sri Lankan citizenships and the third point being the final 150,000 Tamil people and their natural increase would be further negotiated between the Sri Lankan and Indian governments. The Tamil response to their oppression was through several political protest movements, in 1978 all the militant groups formed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which demanded the northern and eastern providences be a separate Tamil state.

The repatriation of the Tamils to India was a very slow process and only 337,066 Tamils and their natural increase had been repatriated by 1984 which was put on hold as there was extreme violence in Sri Lanka due to the LTTE’s demands of a separate state being ignored by the Sinhalese government. On the 23rd of July 1983 this escalated violence resulted

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