Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tsanantawa mai tsanani ya ɓarke a cikin 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 da kuma 1983
anti-Tamil pogroms, kazalika da 1981 kona Jaffna Jama'a Library. Yawancin 'yan Sinhalese ne suka aiwatar da waɗannan sau da yawa tare da goyon bayan jihar, a cikin shekarun da suka biyo bayan' yancin Sri Lanka daga Daular Burtaniya a shekarar 1948. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan samun 'yancin kai, Sinhalese an gane shi a matsayin harshen hukuma na al'umma. Bayan yaƙin soja na shekaru 26, sojojin Sri Lanka sun kayar da 'yan Tamil Tigers a watan Mayu na shekara ta 2009, wanda ya kawo karshen yakin basasa.