Ancient Sri Lanka: About 500 BC when a people called the Sinhalese migrated there from India. According to legend the first settlers were led by a man named Vijaya.
The Human Resource has always been a factor of critical importance to the organization as well as to our Nation. With the emergence of the market economy the need to manage people effectively has become an utmost priority to organizations in Sri Lanka.
Events of 2009: The endgame and aftermath of the armed conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) dominated events in Sri Lanka throughout 2009.
Sri Lanka received its independence from Great Britain in 1948, after being a Crown Colony in the British Empire. The British had conquered the last independent Sinhalese kingdoms and placed the island under a single administration in 1815.
Sri Lanka has been plagued by bloody violence since 1983, due to a secession movement in the North, anti-government insurrections in the South, and numerous disconnected local ‘micro-conflicts’ in the North and East.
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