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Sri Lankan state-sponsored colonization schemes refers to the government program of settling mostly Sinhalese farmers from the densely populated wet zone in the sparsely populated areas of the dry zone in the North Central Province and the Eastern Province regions near tanks and reservoirs being built in major irrigation and hydro-power programs such as the Mahaweli project to create farming and fishing communities .Since irrigation settlements in the North Central and Eastern Provinces occurred under direct state sponsorship, it appeared to many Tamils as a deliberate attempt of the Sinhalese-dominated state to marginalize them further by decreasing their numbers in the area . It has been perhaps the most immediate cause of inter-communal violence.〔http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTSRILANKA/Resources/App1.pdf|title=The Root Causes of the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka〕〔http://mahaweli.gov.lk/en/pdf/Library/Implementtion%20Strategy%20Study%20-%20Volume%205.pdf|title= MAHAWELI GANGA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY STUDY〕 ==Introduction== Shortly after independence, the government of Ceylon started a program to settle farmers in the jungles of Trincomalee District. The forests were cleared and water tanks restored. As a consequence of these schemes the Sinhalese population of Trincomalee District rose from 11,606 (15%) in 1946 to 85,503 (33%) in 1981. In the 1980s the government extended the colonization schemes into the Dry Zone area of the Northern Province, drawing up plans to settle up to 30,000 Sinhalese in .〔 colonization schemes also took place in the areas of Amparai and Batticaloa districts where Sinhalese population rose from 61,996 in 1963 when the district was formed to 229,000 by 2007 according to Government census claims.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Population statistics in Amparai district in 2007 )〕 The notion of the ‘traditional Tamil homeland’ became a potent component of popular Tamil political imagination while the Sinhalese nationalist groups viewed the resettlement schemes in these areas as “reclamation and recreation in the present of the glorious Sinhalese Buddhist past”. the Muslim community tended to reject the countervailing notion of a traditional Tamil homeland in the North East region which resulted in animosity between the Muslim and Tamil communities in the region to rise 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sri Lankan state-sponsored colonisation schemes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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