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Constant rabble-rousing by Sinhalese politicians intermittently led to race riots, in which Sinhalese mobs carried out pogroms and murders against Tamils.

The first image depicts a Tamil man being stripped and beaten before being murdered by grinning Sinhalese youths.

The result of this was a week of rioting where innocent Tamil civilians were murdered, raped and tortured by Sinhalese mobs.

I have no knowledge of Sinhalese -- but from the description above it sound surprisingly similar to Japanese.

This is in a country where Sinhalese make up about 70% of the population.

In fact, the Tamils in Sri Lanka wanted to create their own independent state because of discrimination they faced from the Sinhalese majority.

Fun fact: The mix of Sinhalese - English is called Singlish here.

My native language -- Sinhalese -- has two forms: written and spoken.

To me, this is groundbreaking - for a very long time, Sinhalese Sri Lankans would dismiss any atrocities against the Tamils out of hand.

And if the British colonisation had so much local support, then why did they import Tamils, surely the Sinhalese were eager to work for them?

Further barbarism from the Sinhalese majority, such as the destruction of culturally important Tamil heritage (for instance, the destruction of an important library), seeding racial tensions.

And if you click through, you'll find that they don't have the Sinhalese word for monitor lizard, but you can contribute it for them to monetize.

Don't forget the asinine translation sites with page descriptions like "Have you ever wondered what the Sinhalese word for 'monitor lizard' is[1]?

Using "sir" everywhere you'd say "you" feels like the same sort of high respect that merkitt was describing in Sinhalese.

“The rest were Sinhalese and one Muslim.” Nonetheless, the report suggested that a handball team full of Tamil terrorists had been smuggled into Germany.

I recently saw a video where an agitator came up to a mob of mostly Sinhalese people (Sinhalese being the majority ethnic group) and said "The Muslims are coming after me with swords!" only to be told by the mob to take his racism and nationalism elsewhere.

Both Thai and Khmer are Indic abugida scripts that derive (just like Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, Balinese, etc.) from Brahmi.

That means, just life in Sinhalese, it is correct to address the individual in the third person with the most appropriate title (and falling back on Sir/Madam when the title isn't known).

Did British colonisation really have significant local support from the Sinhalese?