Tamil Tigers
...of LTTE are trying to take over a part of northern and eastern Sri Lanka because they consider it their “own” state wanting to make it independent through a violent campaign of terrorist acts all around Sri Lanka. The biggest enemy of the Tamil Tigers, the other way to call them, is the government of Sri Lanka.
Dravidian people that were originally from the south of India are named Tamils after their own language, Tamilian. When India was still a British colony, British colonial authorities made all the Tamilian people move, they moved to a lot of countries among them, Sri Lanka, with one of the biggest population of Tamils. Tamils were people who worked on the tea plantations before they were moved, but they still continue that since it became something like a tradition that most of them have to be tea planters. These peoples main religion is Hinduism but they practice a lot of other religions, though their official is Hindu.
Difference among ethnicity, religion, language, and history, as well as some others, are probably the most spread topics for conflicts. In every conflict there has to be some background that might have lead to it. The problem occurred when the Tamils first moved from India, since they were all new to the country and to all the traditions those people had, they started to be treated in a different way, not the way they treated others. The government did not support them and they started to live in poverty, but even though a lot of time passed since then, nothing changed, many of Tamilians are still experiencing poor living conditions as well as working conditions. There are also some differences in religion and the language between the Tamils and the native Sri Lankan people. After the riots in Sri Lanka, which occurred because of the government changing the official language and because of the government refusing to give more power to...
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