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Sri Lanka—Profile Summary
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(2001 est. pop. 19.4 million). A small island nation located at the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent and measuring only 65,610 square kilometers, Sri Lanka has a diversified geography that includes harmoniously associated landscapes of...
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Sri Lanka Summary
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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is an island, roughly the size of West Virginia, at the southern tip of India. It is separated from its large neighbor, India, by about 29 kilometers (18 miles) of sea. The Sinhala, who constitute about 75 percent of the...
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Sri Lanka—Human Rights Summary
376 words, approx. 1 pages
Sri Lanka is a democratic island-state with a multiparty system. After attaining independence from the British empire in 1948, Sri Lankan ruling elites retained the colonial constitution while from time to time incorporating legislative acts. A new...
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Sri Lanka—Education System Summary
309 words, approx. 1 pages
Education in the sense of a state's obligation to provide for a tax-financed general system of primary, secondary and "high"-schools did not exist in Sri Lanka's Buddhist medieval society. Buddhist monasteries imparted...
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Sri Lanka Information
9,509 words, approx. 32 pages
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhalese: , Tamil: இலங்கை; known as Ceylon before 1972) is an island nation in South Asia, located about 31 kilometres (19.3 mi) off the southern coast of...
 


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Sri Lanka violence timeline
11/2/2007: 698 words, approx. 2 pages
Major developments in Sri Lanka's conflict._ 1975: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group forms. The group demands a separate state for minority ethnic Tamils in the island's north and east._ 1983: Civil war begins, sparked by anti-Tamil riots in the capital, Colombo. Many believe the...
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Sri Lanka bomb kills 7 civilians
5/28/2007: 250 words, approx. 1 pages
A roadside bomb exploded during the evening rush hour near Sri Lanka's capital on Monday and killed seven civilians, the military said.Military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said a truck carrying police commandos to the capital was hit by the blast in Ratmalana, a suburb of...
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Sri Lanka suicide bombing kills 11
2/3/2008: 326 words, approx. 1 pages
A female suicide bomber attacked the main railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 92 others, officials said.Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said the bomber got down from a train and then blew herself up."I was near...
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Tamils launch airstrike in Sri Lanka
3/26/2007: 469 words, approx. 2 pages
Tamil rebels launched their first airstrike in the nearly quarter-decade conflict with Sri Lanka's government, using at least one small plane to bomb an air base outside the capital Monday and killing three airmen, officials said.Tamil Tiger rebels said the overnight raid, which also injured...
 


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