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Date: 2009\/04\/16 @ 2:30 PM [GMT-5]<\/p>\n
Dear Sir\/ Madam:<\/p>\n
I am very much disgusted reading one of your Feature Stories: The Pearl of Great Price: promoting equitable access to education in Sri Lanka over sixty years.<\/a><\/p>\n It is Sri Lanka’s quota system for education that infuriated youngsters of Tamils of Sri Lanka that now has ended up as a genocide. I am very much disappointed that the whole body did not know about this.<\/p>\n Please see below notes for further clarifications: \u201cThe [1972] constitution also sanctioned measures that discriminated against Tamil youth in university admissions. Tamil youth were particularly irked by the \u201cstandardization\u201d policy that Bandaranaike\u2019s government introduced in 1973. The policy made university admissions criteria lower for Sinhalese than for Tamils.\u201d Hopefully, you will not build such a standardization policies in another country and ignite another civil war.<\/p>\n
\nThe uprisings in the North were also against elected governments because if you take the North and South, the bulk of the people were highly educated. In fact, until 1970 the bulk of the university entrants were from the North, then from the South. Mrs Bandaranaike\u2019s Government, in 1971, introduced standardisation and the district quota system in order to enhance the opportunities for the vast majority from the not-so-developed areas to enter universities.
\nhttp:\/\/www.priu.gov.lk\/news_update\/Current_Affairs\/ca200205\/20020516terrorism.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.country-data.com\/cgi-bin\/query\/r-13157.html<\/a><\/p>\n