[20160603]IF10420_斯里兰卡：改革与和解.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov June 3, 2016Sri Lanka: Reform and ReconciliationOverview Since January 2015, there has been a fundamental shift in Sri Lankas domestic politics. This shift raises the possibility for deeper United States engagement. Sri Lankas civil war between the Sinhalese majority government troops and the forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) ended in 2009 after 26 years, having claimed over 100,000 lives. U.S.-Sri Lankan relations deteriorated during the closing phase of the war, under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Disagreements between the United States and Sri Lanka stemmed from concern over how the Sri Lanka government fought the LTTE, particularly in the final phase of the war. United States, Western, and Indian concerns over human rights had the effect of causing Sri Lanka, under former President Rajapaksa, to turn to China for assistance as it pressed what was viewed by many as a ruthless military solution to defeat the LTTE. In presidential and parliamentary elections in January and August 2015, voters ousted the Rajapaksa regime and brought President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to power in a national