Eelam

...However, the weight of English in university education has decreased, an admission system that is unfavorable to Jaffna Tamils ​​from the Jaffna region has been adopted, and the doors to professional careers are becoming narrower. In opposition to the Sinhalaization policy, voices calling for a federal state have grown stronger, especially among the Tamil middle class in the north, and from the mid-1970s this has developed into a movement calling for separation and independence as the "Eelam State" (Tamil problem). On the other hand, there was great dissatisfaction among Sinhalese rural youth who had been excluded from the drama of the middle class's change of power, and they formed the People's Liberation Front, which launched a large-scale armed rebellion against the left-wing united front of the Liberal Party, the Equality Socialist Party, and the Communist Party in 1971.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Eelam" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかし，大学教育における英語の比重が低くなり，ジャフナ地方出身のジャフナ･タミル人に不利な入学制度が採用され，専門職の門戸も狭くなりつつある。北部のタミル人中産階級を中心に，シンハラ化政策に反発して，連邦制国家を求める声が強くなり，70年代中ごろから〈イーラム国Eelam〉として分離独立を主張する運動へと発展している(タミル問題)。　他方，中産階級の政権交替劇から排除されていたシンハラ人農村青年の不満も大きく，人民解放戦線を結成し，71年には自由党，平等社会党および共産党の左翼統一戦線への大規模な武装反乱を行った。…

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