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1995-10-01a- CIA Conference Report: THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER IN THE 1990S GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES 01-Oct-95

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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.

  • p. 129 …polity naturally emerges the social and political control of majority lowland from irrigated rice agriculture. By…
  • p. 188 …We deployed our attempts to draw up convoluted ethnic maps were forces and accomplished our mission…
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Figure 13
Ethnic Composition in Sri Lanka, 1981
. 4.
By Province By District
Sinhalese Majority
By Division
B DFvo Sinhalese Plurality
- - - -"Sri Lankan Tamil Majority
Sri Lankan Tamil Plurality
- - -- - - 'Indian Tamil Majority
.. . . . ." . - Indian Tamil Plurality
. - Moor Majority
S- - - - * Moor Plurality
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