Sinhala Only Act
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The Official Language Act, commonly referred to as the Sinhala Only Act, was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956. The act replaced English with Sinhala as the sole official language of C
Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranayaka.
Fast unto death by Prof. F. R. Jayasuriya in 1956, to force Bandaranaike government to implement the Sinhala as the only State language excluding Tamil language of masses in the country's north and east provinces.
Tamil Eelam
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Tamil Eelam is a proposed independent state that many Sri Lankan Tamils and their diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka. Large sections of the North-East were under de facto con
Sinhala Only Act
…Sinhala Buddhist nation state, and for Tamils, it became a symbol of minority oppression and a justification for them to demand a separate nation-state, Tamil Eelam, which was a factor in the emergence of the decades-long Sri Lankan Civil War. During the British colonial era, English was the official language in…
Kilinochchi Court
Batticaloa Lagoon, an estuarine lagoon in Eastern province
The Bay of Bengal at Point Pedro, Northern province, the northernmost point of the island
Fire-wood sellers in Batticaloa district