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  2. 1956 anti-Tamil pogrom - Wikipedia

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    Gal Oya settlement scheme was begun in 1949 to settle landless peasants in formerly jungle land. Gal Oya river in the Eastern province was dammed and a tank was created with 40,000,000 acres (160,000 km 2) of irrigated land.

  3. 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom - Wikipedia

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    In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka. RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1681-5. Chattopadhyaya, Haraprasad (1994). Ethnic Unrest in Modern Sri Lanka: An Account of Tamil-Sinhalese Race Relations. South Asia Books. ISBN 81-85880-52-2. Manor, James (1989). The Expedient Utopian: Bandaranaike and Ceylon. Cambridge University Press.

  4. Timeline of Sri Lankan history - Wikipedia

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    1971 JVP insurrection: Marxist insurrection conducted by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the government of Sri Lanka. 1972: Sri Lanka becomes a republic, and country's name Ceylon was changes to Sri Lanka: 1983 24–30 July Black July by the government and Sinhalese mobs; Beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War: 1987 29 July Signing of the ...

  5. Tamil genocide - Wikipedia

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    In response to Trudeau's statement, Sri Lanka stated: "Sri Lanka rejects the reference to Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day by the Canadian Prime Minister and that it is a distorted narrative of the past conflict in Sri Lanka is aimed solely at achieving local vote-bank electoral gains, and is not conducive to broader goals of communal harmony." [121]

  6. List of wars involving Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of wars involving the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and ... Government of Sri Lanka confirms that future patrols would take place. [3 ...

  7. Factbox-What are the five key issues in Sri Lanka's ... - AOL

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    Whoever wins the election will have to ensure Sri Lanka gets its economy on a sustainable and inclusive growth path, reassure local and international markets, attract investors and help a quarter of t

  8. History of Sri Lanka (1948–present) - Wikipedia

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    The Sri Lankan Stalemate: Going Off the Screen in the Post Cold War Rajiv Gandhi's offer to send troops into Sri Lanka was deeply unpopular with the Sinhalese and, although initially popular with the Tamils, led to an outbreak of hostilities between the Tamil Tigers and the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) – Eelam War II.

  9. 30 One-In-A-Million Coincidences That Are Hard To Believe ...

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    Luck. Fate. Blessing. A glitch in the matrix. Or, if you’re more skeptical, just a coincidence.. It’s a phenomenon that, from a statistical perspective, is random and meaningless.