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Lasantha and I had always maintained that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) were a ruthless, bloodthirsty terrorist organization that had assassinated countless leaders including India's Rajiv Gandhi and had systematically eliminated the political leadership of the Sri Lankan Tamils and wiped out the entire moderate Sinhala majority leadership.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. English-language pay television channel This article is about the English-language audio-visual international news and current affairs operations of the BBC. For the BBC's corporate division administering it, as well as the audio-only ...
The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (including Tamil, Pāli, and English). However, the languages used in ancient times were very different from the language used in Sri Lanka now.
BBC News is an operational business division [2] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well ...
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...