Sri Lanka's structural adjustment program and its impact on Indo-Lanka relations

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Sri Lanka has enjoyed 50 years of independence yet its ethnic Sinhalese inhabitants are engaged in bitter warfare with minority Tamil rebels who aim to fashion a separate state. This conflict, the Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil sentiment in India's Tamil Nadu state, the 1983 anti-Tamil riots and India's nearly 60 million Tamils are significant variables in any analysis of Sri Lanka-India relations. The effect of Sri Lanka's post-1977 structural adjustment reforms on relations between both nations from 1977-1987 is analyzed.

Evaluation, Indian foreign relations, India, Minorities, Tamils, Tamils in Sri Lanka, Tamils in India, Sri Lankan foreign relations

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Sri Lanka in 2004: Enduring political decay and a failing peace process

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Sri Lanka's peace talks remained suspended, with a newly formed leftist alliance headed by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga seizing power, and with the separatist Tamil rebels factionalized. While the president seeks to change the constitution to extend her tenure as head of state and the opposition vowing to overthrow her government, the island appears poised to experience even more instability and chaos.

Public affairs, Political activity, Kumaratunga, Chandrika, Pacific settlement of international disputes, Peace negotiations, Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes, Rebels

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Sri Lanka in 2003: seeking to consolidate peace

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The international support encouraged Srilanka's government and separatist Tamil rebels to evaluate ways to end the two decades of ethnic killing for seeking peace. Sinhalese opposition parties unwilling to cooperate with the government reveals that Sri Lanka in 2003 was far from achieving consolidated peace.

Peace movements, 2003 AD

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