Tamil refugees. (editorial)

The Nation | September 13, 1986| | Copyright

Tamil Refugees

The discovery last month of 155 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who had been set adrift in lifeboats off the coast of Newfoundland by a West German captain awakened many Americans to the existence of the bloody separatist war on the South Asian island. Since 1983 violence between the mainly Hindu Tamil minority and the Buddhist Sinhalese majority has claimed at least 4,000 lives, most of them Tamil. The Tamils who live in the island's northern and eastern regions make up 12.6 percent of Sri Lanka's population of 15 million and have been demanding an ...

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