Sri Lanka—Profile
(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 di...
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Sri Lanka—Education System
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 exis...
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Sri Lanka—Human Rights
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 colon...
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Sri Lankan Americans
Overview
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, is an island in the Indian Ocean approximately 20 miles off the southeastern tip of India. It occupies an...
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Sri Lanka
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya
CAPITAL: Colombo
FLAG: The national flag contains, at the hoist, vertical stripes of green and saff...
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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...
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Sri Lanka
POPULATION 19,576,783BUDDHIST 69 percentHINDU 15 percentCHRISTIAN 8 percentMUSLIM 7 percentOTHER 1 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
Sri Lanka (officially known as the Democratic So...
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Area: 65,610 sq km (25,332 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 19,879,000Capitals:
Colombo
(executive and judicial);
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
(legislative)Head of state and government:
President
Ma...
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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:...
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Fighting intensified Wednesday in Sri Lanka's war-wracked north
ahead of the government's presentation to parliament of a new budget
nearly doubling security-related expenditures.
There we...
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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 carr...
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Colombo (dpa) - Renewed fighting broke out in eastern Sri Lanka
near a jungle base where Tamil rebels are believed to be holed up
after more than five months of military ope...
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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 Nanayakk...
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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 kill...
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Tamil Tiger rebels kidnapped 24 Tamil teenagers, mostly girls, who were attending a class preparing them for school exams, the Sri Lankan military said Tuesday.But the rebels said the teenagers wan...
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The number of refugees in eastern Sri Lanka climbed past 100,000 after heavy fighting in rebel-held parts of the island forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes in recent days, the Red Cro...
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A rebel attack on an air base this week caused far more damage than previously acknowledged, destroying eight aircraft, including a vital surveillance plane, Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesd...
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