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African Sri Lankans, mainly the Sri Lanka Kaffirs, are a very small Ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of African mercenaries, musicians, and labourers taken to what is now Sri Lanka by Portuguese colonists during the period of Portuguese colonial rule on the island. [3] There are currently around 1,000 African Sri Lankans.
Pushpakala Thuraisingham (10 May 1973 – 10 August 1994; commonly known by the nom de guerre Captain Angayarkanni) was a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka. She was the LTTE's first female Black Tiger (suicide bomber).
Classification: People: By nationality: Sri Lanka ... Sri Lankan men (3 C) Sri Lankan women (10 C, 3 P) C.
Premala Sivaprakasapillai née Sivasegaram (born 22 April 1942) is a Sri Lankan engineer.She is the country’s first female engineer and the first female civil engineer. [1] [2] She is also one of the prominent members of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.
About Category:National Heroes of Sri Lanka and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about National Heroes of Sri Lanka, which may be a contentious label. The following are people who contributed towards the movement to achieve independence for Sri Lanka from the British Empire .
Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke, the Civil Defence Commissioner complained that the British commander of Ceylon, Admiral Layton called him a 'black bastard'. Ceylonese in Japanese occupied Singapore and Malaya formed the 'Lanka Regiment' of the so called Indian National Army which had been established by Nazi Germany, directly under Netaji ...
Captain Miller shrine at Nelliady Madhya Maha Vidyalayam on Black Tigers Day, 2004. Disturbed by the Black July anti-Tamil riots, Vasanthan joined the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1983 as a driver. [7] [10] He became a full time member of the LTTE a year later. [10] He was given the nom de guerre Miller (Millar). [11] [12]
"Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka". International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 4. University of Jaffna: 4. doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-4-22. PMC 2923106. PMID 20667090. S2CID 40442344. "Proclamation By His Excellency The President" (PDF).