Safety of a southern Sri Lankan in Tamil Nadu

1. Are Tamils discriminated in Sri Lanka?
2. How many Sri Lankans are Tamil?
3. Can Sinhalese understand Tamil?
4. How many Sri Lankan refugees are there in Tamilnadu?
5. Why were Tamils killed in Sri Lanka?
6. How many Tamils were killed in Sri Lanka?
7. Are Sri Lankans Indian?
8. Is Sinhala similar to Tamil?
9. Is Sri Lankan Tamil different?
10. Do Tamil Muslims speak Tamil?
11. Are Tamil Tigers bad?
12. Are Tamils Indian or Sri Lankan?

Are Tamils discriminated in Sri Lanka?

More than a decade after the Mullivaikkal massacre, Tamils remain heavily discriminated against by a state that has yet to reckon with its violent past. Children pass a burned vehicle in Mullivaikkal, a village which saw the massacre of over 40,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan military in the final stages of the war.

How many Sri Lankans are Tamil?

According to the 2012 census there were 2,270,924 Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka, 11.2% of the population. Sri Lankan Tamils constitute an overwhelming majority of the population in the Northern Province and are the largest ethnic group in the Eastern Province. They are minority in other provinces.

Can Sinhalese understand Tamil?

Most Tamils living in the south of the country speak Sinhala, but very few Sinhalese speak Tamil, and few of the increasing number of Sinhalese tourists visiting the north are able to converse easily with their fellow Sri Lankans in the north.

How many Sri Lankan refugees are there in Tamilnadu?

There are nearly 80,000 refugees 132 camps in Tamil Nadu and one in Orissa. All refugee camps are registered. This entitles them to government assistance-cash, shelter, health facilities, clothing and provision of essential items.

Why were Tamils killed in Sri Lanka?

Attacks were often carried out in revenge for attacks committed by the Sri Lankan Army, such as the Anuradhapura massacre which immediately followed the Valvettithurai massacre. The Anuradhapura massacre itself was answered by government forces with the Kumudini boat massacre in which over 23 Tamil civilians died.

How many Tamils were killed in Sri Lanka?

Security Council issued a report estimating that around 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in Mullivaikkal in the final stages of the civil war, which ended less than three months after Varnakulasingham's death.

Are Sri Lankans Indian?

However, subsequent research has shown that the Sinhalese, who make up about 75 per cent of the Sri Lankan population might very well have descended from inhabitants of ancient East India.

Is Sinhala similar to Tamil?

Sinhala is classified as an Indo-Aryan language and Tamil is classified as a Dravidian language. Separated from its sister Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi and Bengali by a large belt of Dravidian languages, Sinhala along with Dhivehi of the Maldives evolved somewhat separately.

Is Sri Lankan Tamil different?

Characteristics. As Tamil is a diglossic language the differences between the standard written languages across the globe is minimal but the spoken varieties differ considerably. ... In general Sri Lankan Tamil dialects are considered to be more conservative than the continental Tamil dialects.

Do Tamil Muslims speak Tamil?

Why Tamil-speaking Muslims in Sri Lanka broke away from Tamil identity. ... The radicals may speak the language of Tamil but don't identify themselves as Tamils. Though Sri Lanka has seen a powerful Tamil nationalist movement, Muslims, though Tamil-speaking, have not been a part of it.

Are Tamil Tigers bad?

The Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka are undoubtedly one of the most organized, effective and brutal terrorist groups in the world. They invented the suicide vest and, according to the FBI, are the only terrorist group to have assassinated two world leaders.

Are Tamils Indian or Sri Lankan?

demography of Sri Lanka

Tamil segment comprises two groups—Sri Lankan Tamils (long-settled descendants from southeastern India) and Indian Tamils (recent immigrants from southeastern India, most of whom were migrant workers brought to Sri Lanka under British rule).