Civil War in Sri Lanka

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Global June 3, 2012 Civil War in Sri Lanka The civil war in Sri Lanka took 25 years to finally end taking a lot of people down with it. For this to happen there were events that lead up to the civil war to start it and events that happened to make it come to a stop. The civil war in Sri Lanka impacted a ton of people’s lives during and after the war. This started with two ethnic groups, the Sinhala and the Tamils. The Sinhala called their country Sri Lanka while on the other hand the Tamils called their country Tamil Eelam. The start of the civil war in Sri Lanka was in 1983, and the European powers colonized the globe. The European powers modified and replaced native governments and customs and they redrew map boundaries to suit their narrow interests. During the war the British took control of Ceylon in early 1800s, when they finally left in 1948 they installed a form of government that gave Sinhala control of entire island essentially. Some disagreements between Tamil and Sinhalese ethnic communities rose up when drawing of the first post-independence constitution for the country happened. If the two ethnic groups had gotten along in the beginning this wouldn’t have happened and it would have saved a ton of innocent people’s lives and could have saved a lot of pain for the country. Not only did the Civil war in Sri Lanka affect the men and women fighting in the war but it also affected a lot of the innocent civilians in the country and around the war. More than 60,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the war including the innocent civilians. Everyone was affected this war because each person that died during the war had a family that cared about them, Children from Sri Lanka have been particularly at risk for malnutrition, shelling and aerial bombing, displacement, poor health care and education, disappearance, rape, torture, mass
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