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1. Objective (READ) SWBAT identify who is fighting in the Sri Lanka conflict.

1. Objective (READ) SWBAT identify who is fighting in the Sri Lanka conflict. 2. Question of the Day. (TURN OBJECTIVE INTO A QUESTION) 3. Warm-up (ANSWER) A. How does the US economy influence migration in India? B. Why do people leave rural areas in India?. Table of Contents.

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1. Objective (READ) SWBAT identify who is fighting in the Sri Lanka conflict.

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  1. 1. Objective (READ) SWBAT identify who is fighting in the Sri Lanka conflict. 2. Question of the Day. (TURN OBJECTIVE INTO A QUESTION) 3. Warm-up (ANSWER) A. How does the US economy influence migration in India? B. Why do people leave rural areas in India?

  2. Table of Contents 1. Turn to the next available fresh page after your Kashmir page and title it “Review”

  3. Sri Lanka READ ONLY • Small Island nation. • Sacred religious land for both Hindus and Buddhists. Pakistan India Sri Lanka Bangladesh

  4. COPY Sri Lanka Conflict • Sinhalese  Majority, Buddhists VS. • Tamils  Minority (18%), Hindus • Sinhalese government stops giving Tamils civil rights – 1970s

  5. COPY Tamil Tigers • Want to divide country in half • Terrorist group - uses suicide bombings, kidnappings, child soldiers, assassinations

  6. Tamil Tigers READ ONLY • The Tamil Tigers are currently proscribed as a terrorist organization by 32 countries (see list of countries). They have a well-developed militia cadre, and are notorious for committing atrocities against civilians, for carrying out high profile attacks, including the assassinations of several high-ranking Sri Lankan and Indian politicians, and for recruiting child soldiers. The LTTE invented the suicide belt and is widely known for suicide bombing as a tactic. They also pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks.[3][4][5] The LTTE has carried out more suicide bombings than Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al-Qaeda combined.[2] The LTTE is the only rebel organization known to have possessed aircraft.[6]

  7. Questions – record these before getting a laptop 1. How serious is the violence? 2. Why the upsurge in violence? 3. Describe the peace moves. 4. What do the rebels want? 5. What are the human and economic costs? 6. How did the conflict end in 2009? - Record each question. - Write one sentence summarizing the answer.

  8. Part 1 (Questions 1-5) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2405347.stm • Part 2 (Questions 6) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5340065/Defeat-of-the-Tamil-Tigers.html

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