Ethnic Background Toward Crimes in Sri Lanka (1948

Ethnic Background Toward Crimes in Sri Lanka (1948 – 1970)

There emerged so many contributory factors for the rise of LTTE as Tamils were highly discriminated. During 1948 – 1949, “Anti Tamil Legislation” was passed by the newly appointed government. Indian Tamil lost their citizenship in Sri Lanka with the enactment of Ceylon Citizenship Act. In 1956, Tamil was established as the second language while Sinhala was established as the official language. With the enactment of Sinhala Only Act, many Burghers went abroad, because they felt discrimination. There arose a communication issue between Sinhala and Tamils, as they had communicated in English up to then.

In 1957, with the objective of providing more rights to Tamil people, Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike signed an agreement with Chelvanayakam, the leader of Tamil Arasu Katchi Party. However, P. G. Ponnambalam, and J. R. Jayawardene, a former UNP member, opposed to this agreement. J. R. Jayawardene also organized a march from Kandy to express his objection. Sinhala community opposed to some reformations over Buddhism and other cultural practices done by Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike.

In 1958, a large riot between Sinhalese and Tamils arose in Colombo as a result of those discriminations. From 1965, bond between Sinhalese and Tamils started to recede.

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