https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka Made with serendipity en-us 2017-01-26 18:16:51 UTC 2017-05-17 08:52:28 UTC hello@padlet.com 3014261 https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149708736 74% of the population is Sinhalese
Migrated from northern India in the fifth century B.C 
Occupy southern 2/3 of the island 
Converted to Buddhism 300 years later ]]> 2017-01-26 18:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149708736 3014261 https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149710542 16% of the population 
Migrated across the Palk Strait in the third century 
Occupy northern part of the island 
Are Hindu 
Tamil language spoken by 60 million people in India ]]> 2017-01-26 18:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149710542 3014261 https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149712326 10% of the population 
Ethnic Arabs descended from Southwest Asia 
Settled in the eighth century 
Adhere to Islam but speak Tamil or Sanhalese ]]> 2017-01-26 18:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149712326 3014261 https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149714036 Sinhalese and the Tamils have been at war from 1983-2009 
80,000 died 
Extends back more then 2,000 years 
died down during 300 years of European control 

]]> 2017-01-26 18:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149714036 3014261 https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149715907 Gained independence in 1948 
Sinhalese dominated the government, military, and most commerce 
Tamils feel they suffer discrimination 
War ended in 2009 and the Sinhalese took control 
Buddhism made the official language ]]> 2017-01-26 18:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149715907 3014261 https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149721223 Sri Lanka is off the coast of India 
19 million inhabitants ]]> 2017-01-26 18:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149721223 3014261 https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149722249 No wars 
But Tamils fear for the future of Sri Lanka as a multinational sate 
Fear the military defeat will jeopardizes their ethic identity again ]]> 2017-01-26 19:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3014261/sri_lanka/wish/149722249