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Posted on December 9th, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS
After
Eelam war IV ended, Tamil Separatist Movement returned to the topic of the Sinhalisation
of North and East. They were concerned about three matters, Sinhala
settlements, Buddhist temples and archaeological sites.
Sinhala colonies, Buddhist temples, and Buddha statues were being aggressively constructed with military sponsorship, said Tamil Separatist Movement. The purpose was to bifurcate Tamil speaking areas, alter the demography of the north and east, and to encourage ‘Sinhala Buddhisation’ of the Tamil homeland.
Settlements
There
were many allegations of state- and army-assisted Sinhala occupation of
agricultural and private land. In 2014,
Tamil Separatist Movement feared that