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Guns, knives, stones, burning. The 1985 anti-Tamil pogrom in Karaitivu refers to the organised violence directed at the Tamil civilian population of Karaitivu, Ampara by Sri Lankan Muslim mobs aided by Sri Lankan security forces. [1] [2] [note 1] In April 1985, President J. R. Jayewardene sent M. H. Mohamed, along with his supporters to attack ...
The district has a population density of 561 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,450/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 17.89%. [1] Mirzapur has a sex ratio of 900 females for every 1000 males, [1] and a literacy rate of 70.38%. 13.92% of the population lives in urban areas.
In 1955, the district replaced the province as the country's main administrative unit. Ampara District was created in April 1961, followed by the creation of Mullaitivu and Gampaha districts in September 1978 through a new constitution, which also reintroduced the province as the main administrative unit.
Kilinochchi Administrative District was created from southern Jaffna Administrative District in February 1984. Consequently, Jaffna Electoral District now consists of two administrative districts (Jaffna and Kilinochchi). Jaffna seats controversy. The annual updating of the electoral register in Sri Lanka is done by house-to-house enumeration.
Nintavur Electoral District. Coordinates: 7.3500°N 81.8500°E. Nintavur electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was renamed Sammanthurai electoral district in July 1977. The district was named after the towns of Nintavur and Sammanthurai in Ampara District, Eastern Province.
Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Amrapara had a total population of 3,898, of which 1,984 (51%) were males and 1,914 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 626. The total number of literate persons in Amrapara was 2,293 (70.08% of the population over 6 years). [1]
Sri Lanka. Province. Eastern. District. Ampara. DS Division. Karaitivu. Karaitivu ( Tamil: காரைதீவு, Sinhala: කාරතීවු) is a coastal village situated in the Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka about 30 miles (44 km) south of Batticaloa and is next to Kalmunai town. This is one of the oldest surviving village settlements in ...
Kilinochchi District's population was 112,875 in 2011. [2] The population of the district is almost exclusively Sri Lankan Tamil. The population of the district, like the rest of the north and east of Sri Lanka, has been heavily affected by the civil war. The war killed an estimated 100,000 people. [11]