PEACE DIVIDEND FOR SRI LANKA TEA TAMILS
August 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNEP) is pushing the Sri Lankan government to use the country's hard won peace to bring social and economic justice to tea plantation Tamils. These communities are not the long-established Tamils who supported the Tamil Tigers in the civil war that recently reached its bloody climax. Instead, they live in the island's southern-central highlands, having moved there in the Nineteenth Century. They have always been very poor and only received full Sri Lankan citizenship in the 1970s. UNEP wants the ...
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