Topic: Conflicts in Multi-Ethnic Societies - Sri Lanka
Essential Question: Why do ethnic conflicts occur?
- Understanding goals: Why did ethnic conflict occur in Sri Lanka?
- Effects of History
- Colonial Policies
- Discrimination of Sinhalese
- Acts of Discrimination-Retaliation against Tamils
- Citizenship Rights
- Official Language Act
- University Admission Quota
- Resettlement Policies
- Response-Retaliation against Sinhalese
- Demonstration
- Resistance-Liberation: Tamil Tigers
- Effects:
- Political Violence
- Foreign Intervention
- Economic decline
- Humanitarian crisis
- Performances:
- Travel advisory: Should you visit Sri Lanka?
Conflict in Sri Lanka
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