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Let us understand the basic , Sri Lanka is a diverse country with 3 major ethnic
groups, 75% of the country are Sinhalese, 11% form the Sri Lankan Tamils and
4.2% are Indian Tamils. and the problems of sri lanka started way back in 1948,
when they came up with something called the Ceylon Citizenship Act. This act
was specifically aimed to turn sri lanka into a land where only Sinhaleese citizens
live!! and they did that by putting 2 important qualifiers in the act.
• This Act granted citizenship to only to those people who had 10 years of
uninterrupted residence in Sri Lanka.
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