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“And on the democratic side, Sri Lanka is one clear case of a democratic regime that in 1989–90 authorized military squads to track down and summarily execute members and suspected supporters of the JVP (Peoples Liberation Party), which had begun its second rebellion that threatened to overthrow the state.
He wears a haramaki with a design based on the Stars and Stripes, and ends his sentences with "meow". He is a fan of Lady Nyanya. He and Jibanyan are similar in appearances and backstory, as, like him, he died saving his owner, Emily, from being hit by a truck. The Last Nyanmurai / Last Bushinyan (ラストブシニャン)
Classification: People: By nationality: Sri Lanka also: Countries : Sri Lanka : People This category is for notable Sri Lankan -born people, or people who identify themselves as Sri Lankan.
Sri Lanka-China relations started as soon as the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949. The two countries signed an important Rubber-Rice Pact in 1952. [247] Sri Lanka played a vital role at the Asian–African Conference in 1955, which was an important step in the crystallisation of the NAM. [248]
Afrikaans; Alemannisch; አማርኛ; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; অসমীয়া; Asturianu; Avañe'ẽ; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه
The outbreak in mid-August (1977) of the anti-Tamil pogrom (the third such outbreak in two decades) has brought out the reality that the Tamil minority problem in Sri Lanka has remained unresolved now for nearly half a century, leading to the emergence of a separatist movement among the Tamils.
Hindu temples, particularly in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka, have faced significant destruction and desecration by European powers during the Transitional, Kandyan and British Ceylon periods. The arrival of the Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial powers led to the demolition, looting and repurposing of many Hindu temples.
The Sri Lanka shama was formally described in 1941 by the English ornithologist Hugh Whistler as a subspecies of the white-rumped shama.He coined the trinomial name Kittacincla malabarica leggei where the epithet leggei was chosen to honour the memory of the ornithologist William Vincent Legge who had documented the birds of Sri Lanka.