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Troubled paradise: Sri Lanka’s history in nine dates

Troubled paradise: Sri Lanka’s history in nine dates

PARIS: Sri Lanka, a tropical paradise that has spent much of its modern history at war with itself, on Saturday marked 75 years since the end of British colonial rule.Here are nine key dates in the history of the island nation:1948: IndependenceOn February 4, 1948, the South Asian island of Ceylon is granted independence after more than 150 years as a colony under the British crown.Its first government inherits an economy more prosperous than other regional countries but largely dependent on tea plantations, worked by ethnic Tamil labourers brought over from neighbouring India.1972: Tamil Tigers formedThe same year Ceylon adopts a republican constitution and renames itself Sri Lanka, a separatist rebellion is launched by a Tamil armed movement.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), as the group later renames itself, soon begins a campaign of suicide bombings, assassinations and attacks on infrastructure that escalates into an all-out civil war.1987: Indian peacekeepers deployedNe

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