LTTE ON THE RUN : PLIGHT OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN SRILANKAN CONFLICT
A.M. Jamsheed Basha, Chennai-based columnist
Muslims in Srilanka were regarded as a separate ethnic group. But then their language Tamil led them to be close to the Tamil rank and file in the region. So much so that some of their youth had enrolled for military training with the rebels like LTTE in the Eastern and Northern Srilanka. Some of them joined and fought political elections too through Tamil ethnic parties. This relationship was always difficult to maintain, further deteriorated due to the ongoing conflict resulting in polarization between the two communities. Muslims have been systematically targeted, displaced, and dispossessed by armed actors of both the state and the LTTE and its breakaway faction TMVP.
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