Ethnic tensions re-emerge in Sri Lanka

Some new developments indicate that the ethnic tensions, which inflicted serious injuries on the life of Sri Lankan people, have re-emerged in the civil war distorted island nation.

It seems that this time the rival factions are not Sinhala Sri Lankans and Tamil Sri Lankans or ruling and rebels, but are a section of Muslims and a section of Tamils (both are actually minority factions in the island country).

Actually, it was during the last phase of the Sri Lankan civil war the tensions between Tamils and Muslims originally emerged. Though there were many Muslims in the rebel faction fighting for a separate Tamil nation, a section of the Tamil community began to see the Muslim community as an accomplice of the ruling regime dominated by the Sinhala community.

As the ruling government’s efforts to bring an end to the rebel faction succeeded to embrace victory, all misunderstandings emerged as a by-product of the civil war gradually dissolved.

But, a recent report which exposes the Tamil community’s hostility towards the Muslim women’s new outfit choice (Abaya) indicates that somehow the disastrous issue of ethnic tensions between the Muslims and Tamils living in the island country has re-emerged.

It is the high time for the intervention of the responsible International authorities and neighbours to make sure that the past is not repeated.

Ethnic conflicts and tensions are often created for political benefits purposefully, political observers said. It is the duty of the common public to pin point those political miscreants and keep them away from the corridor of power as the common people are only one who are going to suffer if any kind of violence, conflict or tension inflict a society, they add.

Vignesh. S. G

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