![]() Her new novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, tells the story of the conflict from the perspective of two girls who witness the horror - one Tamil, one Sinhalese. They arrived in the United States in 1984. Nayomi Munaweera, who is Sinhalese, left with her family in the 1970s and went to Nigeria. ![]() Over the course of the conflict, as many Sri Lankans were killed, tens of thousands of others - both Tamil and Sinhalese - left the war-torn island. ![]() The civil war officially began in 1983 and continued until 2009. The United Nations estimates that between 80,000 and 100,000 people lost their lives in the conflict - all on an island just slightly larger than West Virginia.Įthnic tensions between two main ethnic groups in Sri Lanka - the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils - simmered through the '60s and '70s. ![]() It's hard to comprehend the toll Sri Lanka's civil war took on the South Asian country. Her family emigrated to Nigeria and later to Southern California. ![]()
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