Toronto's Sinhalese community set up a counter-demonstration, condemning the Tamil protesters.

The Sinhalese community was at its most racist there.

The authorship of the letters were never verified, thus leading some to dismiss it as the concoction of ultra-nationalistic groups within the Sinhalese community.

Sri Lanka's government represented only the majority community, the Sinhalese community, and had marginalized the minorities, causing a "severe degree of alienation" among the minority communities.

The governments adopted these policies in order to assist the Sinhalese community in such areas as education and public employment.

The newspaper Lanka Viththi was created in 1997 to provide a Sinhala newspaper for the Sinhalese community.

The Sinhalese community forms the majority of the population, with Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island, forming the largest ethnic minority.

The main opposition in the Sinhalese community came from the opposition United National Party, headed by J. R. Jayawardene.

This was met with anger amongst the Sinhalese community, who painted over Tamil characters in billboards around the south of the country.

Since 1948, successive governments have adopted policies that had the net effect of assisting the Sinhalese community in such areas as education and public employment.