Civil War Threat in Sri Lanka

The Dawn, Pakistan
Opinion

January 19, 2006

By Tayyab Siddiqui

An unfortunate feature of politics in the South Asian region during the last 50 years has been the birth of separatist movements based mostly on ethnic and linguistic basis and complicated by majority-minority politics.Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan, the Sikh uprising in Indian Punjab in the 1980s, current movements in northeast India, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the ongoing civil war in the north and northeast of Sri Lanka, all share a common feature.

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