斯里兰卡政府和泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织(简称猛虎组织)9月16日～18日在泰国举行了具有历史意义的和平谈判,双方就维护停火协议和继续推进和平进程达成了共识。久困战乱中的斯里兰卡人民总算看到了一线和平的希望。 民族矛盾:殖民时代埋下的祸根 斯里兰卡是个多民族的国家,主体民族是僧伽罗族,约占全国人口的74％,信仰佛教;其次是泰米尔族,约占全国人口的18％,信仰印度教。斯里兰卡于1948年摆 The Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held a historic peace negotiation in Thailand from September 16 to September 18, and both parties reached consensus on how to maintain the cease-fire agreement and continue to push forward the peace process. The Sri Lankan people in the long run of war have finally seen the hope of peace on the front line. Ethnic conflicts: the root cause of the colonial era Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic country, the main ethnic Sinhalese, accounting for about 74% of the country's population, Buddhism; followed by the Tamil, about 18% of the country's population, the belief Hinduism. Sri Lanka placed in 1948