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Sri Lanka

Country overview

Sri Lanka is often portrayed as a tourist paradise torn apart by war. The conflict between the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has badly affected the population and the economy.

The island of Sri Lanka has been marred by violent inter-ethnic tensions, which first emerged in the late 1950s. Tensions reached an unprecedented ferocity in the early 1980s and surfaced again in 1997.

The conflict between the Tamil militants from the north and east, and the majority Sinhalese Sri Lankan government, has led to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.

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