| The pogrom was the reaction of the Sinhala ruling elite to a deepening economic and social crisis. |
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| He recalled Chennai's immense contribution to the initial growth and development of Sinhala cinema. |
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| A duly certified English translation of Fernando's Sinhala statement will be made available to all those countries and Executive concerned. |
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| The pristine Sinharaja Forest, Sinhagiriya and the Sinhala race all derive from sinha, the lion. |
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| Sri Lanka is a country that boasts of 23 centuries of well-recorded and documented history, where Sinhala kings reigned for nearly 2,300 years. |
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| The movie revolves around the bridging of the gulf between the Sinhala and the Tamil population. |
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| He displayed a copy of the Sinhala language publication of the World Socialist Web Site. |
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| The country's official languages are Sinhala and Tamil, but English is also spoken throughout Sri Lanka. |
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| Other languages in which material is posted regularly are German, French, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Indonesian, Russian and Sinhala. |
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| He took her to watch Sinhala-language theater, even though his own Sinhala was not sharp. |
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| The Sinhala supremacist organisation has declared that it will not allow such rallies. |
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| The Sinhala daily, Lankadeepa, published a 25 column-inch story based on an interview with Wije Dias. |
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| This was the first time a Sinhala director directed a Tamil language film. |
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| The first press reports claimed that a crowd of local Sinhala villagers, incensed at a protest by detainees, had spontaneously invaded the centre and carried out the murders. |
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| As a registered party, the SEP was allocated 15 minutes on state-run television and radio to present its program in the Tamil and Sinhala languages. |
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| The power of the English language in this era is indicated by the fact that Sinhala speakers subject to its force referred to it in the 1960s as the kaduva, or sword. |
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| However, to Sinhala extremists, including many in the Buddhist hierarchy, any talk of even limited autonomy for the country's Tamil minority is tantamount to treason. |
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| The principal medium of activity in the Vihara is the Sinhala language. |
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| Colombo obviously had an eye on the enormous tourist potential of a Sita temple, but diehard Sinhala groups opposed the Government gifting forestland for a Hindu temple. |
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| Tamil is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, along with Sinhala. |
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| Sinhala nationalists form their power base, and they must be fed. |
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| He introduced the controversial Sinhala Only Act, recognising Sinhala as the only official language of the government. |
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| This beautiful aquatic flower appears in the Sigiriya frescoes and has been mentioned in ancient Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhala literary works. |
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| Emboldened by this victory, the Sinhala Buddhist monks have turned their focus on Muslims probably with the intention of waging a similar protracted war with Muslims. |
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| The Sri Lankan teams will perform traditional dances, songs on Qatar in Sinhala and English, dance in Kandyan style as well as songs in English, Sinhala and Tamil. |
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| The aggressive Sinhala response to the moderate demands of Tamil nationalism encouraged some Tamils to seek violent alternatives to win justice and peace. |
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| Sinhala language in Sri Lanka has several words derived from Hela. |
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