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There are already concerns in the country that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s remarks may have led to apprehensions among the minority communities, who are already worried about the possibility of the return of an iron-fist rule under the Rajapaksa-duo’s regime. Some seven per cent of the population is Christian. About 12 per cent of the population is Hindu, mostly from the ethnic Tamil minority. Muslims make up nearly 10 per cent of Sri Lanka’s over 21 million people in the predominantly Sinhalese Buddhist land. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier served as the country’s president from 2005-2015, a period that was mired by allegations of human rights abuses, especially against the Tamils.Īccording to UN figures, up to 40,000 civilians were killed by security forces during Mahinda Rajapaksa’s regime that brought an end to the brutal civil war with the defeat of LTTE in 2009. While the Tamils in 2016 appreciated the symbolic gesture of recognising them by adding the Tamil version at the Independence Day celebrations, the opposition, then led by the Rajapaksas and a majority Sinhala community member, filed a fundamental rights petition against the move. He also thanked the Sinhala-majority people for electing him. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after his swearing-in ceremony in November thanked the powerful Buddhist clergy for backing his presidential bid and vowed to protect all communities, while giving foremost priority to Buddhism. The Tamil version ‘Sri Lanka Thaye’ is a direct translation of ‘Namo namo matha’ in the Sinhala language. Sri Lanka’s Constitution provides for the singing of the national anthem in both Sinhala and Tamil. The Sri Lankan government in 2015 started including the Tamil national anthem as a means of achieving reconciliation with the Tamil minority community.

This was the first time since 2016 that there was no Tamil national anthem at the Independence Day celebrations in the country. He said he would ensure civil freedoms like free press and the right to expression.Īt on Tuesday’s ceremony, the national anthem was only sung in the Sinhala language. “As the president today, I represent the entire Sri Lankan nation irrespective of ethnicity, religion, party affiliation or other differences,” he said. In his first address to the nation on the occasion of the 72nd National Day here, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa however vowed there would be no discrimination. Sri Lanka on Tuesday dropped the rendering of the Tamil-version of the national anthem from its Independence Day ceremony for the first time since 2016, raising concerns over the government’s policy for national reconciliation after the end of the brutal civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

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