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Johnson Period 5 Emily Lin, Anusha Vemuri, Vera Umansky, Lauren Strover

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Buddhist monk protest

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Tamil civilians get onto bus to go to a camp for displaced people after they leave Vishvamadu, a town captured by the LTTE

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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

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Civil protest in Sri Lanka (people from Mannar, a district NW of Sri Lanka)

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Interfaith Conflicts are conflicts that take place between groups of people from 2 different religions.
Examples: Nigeria, Sudan, Israel, Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, India (Kashmir), & the Horn of Africa.

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Religions involved: Buddhist Sinhalese (majority) Hindu Tamil (minority)

Time Periods: 1983-2009

Motives of the Conflict: Prior to independence in 1948, the Sinhalese felt discriminated against by their British rulers. This leading to Sinhalese political nationalism within the country. During the independence and the establishment of a first-past-the-post electoral system of the nation , much of the power was placed in the hands of Sinhalese governments. The governments brought in legislation leading to the increasing marginalization of the Tamil minority.This led to increasingly strained relations between the two groups.

Types of Warfare Used: Violence was also fueled by insurrections carried out by the Janathā Vimukthi Peramuṇa (JVP), a Marxist and Sinhalese nationalist political party. In 2008 President Rajapaksa began a military offensive aimed at achieving complete victory over the LTTE.

Solutions to the Conflict: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, President of The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka says that stepped needed to take towards peace are "Firstly, we recognize the need to build a pluralist, democratic State, where the human rights, freedom and equal opportunity for all will be guaranteed and practised. Then we undertake the actions required to achieve this. We believe that the solution lies in seeking alternatives to the concept of a monolithic, unitary state - to blend power with principle, to reconcile authority with freedom. " as well as "We do not believe that the dismemberment of the Sri Lankan State, demanded by the LTTE through the employment of terrorist means, would in anyway be a solution to the Tamil peoples’ problems."

Current State of the Conflict: