Impacts of the conflict on Sri Lankapor Benedict Ong
1. Causes large-scale displacement beyond it borders. In the early 1990s, High Security Zones (HSZ) were set up by the Sri Lanka Army to keep the LTTE away.
2. Sri Lanka Tamils driven out of their homeland
3. Tourism,which is one of the major income earners,was seriously affected due to the violence and internal conflict.
4. Fall in the numbers of tourists
5. India tried to play the mediator role but it failed as the parties involved could not come with a agreement.
6. The Sinhalese showed their hostility towards the Tamils, sometimes through violence.
7. The Tamil Tigers, which is the LTTE is a classified terrorist organization in many countries.They attack Sinhalese and Tamils members such as the police force, members who support the ruling party and politican who did not support the proposed separate state.
8. Armed Conflict
9. Political Consequence
10. Social consequencess
11. Investors from other countries may not have confidence to invest in Sri Lanka because of the conflicts happening in Sri Lanka.
12. In July 1983, Sri Lanka riots led to massive unemployment as thousand of factory workers,the self-employed and plantation workers lost their jobs.
13. Loss investment from other countries
14. Unemployment
15. In October 1987, Tamils Tigers failed to surrender their weapons and the Indian troops has to took control of them by force and from October 1987 to December 1987, clashes happen in the east and north between Tamil Tigers and India peacekeeping force.By March 1990, the peacekeeping force was withdrawn .
16. On 3 June 1987, India government sent 20 Indian ships to Jaffna to provide food and petroleum products to Sri Lanka Tamils and the Indian Air Force dropped food and medical supplies in Jaffna the following day. But by doing so, it violated the Sri Lanka airspace. In July 1987, Sri Lanka agreed to sign a peace record due to pressure from india.
