Weeks before Black July, Jayewardene stated in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom: “Really, if I starve the Tamil people out, the Sinhala people will be happy.” ...

in ‘The Island’ of 8th February 2021. This is nothing to get excited about. It is not long ago that the Sinhala people (Sinhalayo) began to lose their love and pride of Sinhala – the language that ...

When the war started I was nine years old. I have never been to Colombo. I haven’t met any Sinhala speaking people other than those who are in the armed forces. Most of the young people are like me.

Indeed, what has this so-called ‘Sinhala supremacy’ got for the Sinhala people, except for devious politicians to use as a ralllying call for votes every time an election comes around? Each crisis ...

Since we don’t have a better understanding of language we have communication problems with each other, especially between Tamil and Sinhala people. Since the Sinhala Only Act, we have removed ...

Essentially however Weliweriya represents the gauntlet flung down by this Government to the Sinhala people. Its deliberate barbarity is a warning to other villages and other protestors in the South.

Saturday, April 13 marked the Sinhala and Tamil New Year ... New Year fetes are held before the day of the festival, here people get together and engage in fun activities. One of the most popular ...

When I raise this question, one may wonder why I raise this question 64 years after Sinhala was made the Official Language of Sri Lanka by the Official Languages Act, No. 33 of 1956. The people in the ...

Police, backed by Sinhala chauvinist thugs, fired on protesters, killing three people and injuring 49. The government and the Colombo media have attempted to blame Tamils for the deaths.