Fisherman Parasamy Thanabalasingam, 62, settles his bills after auctioning, outside a fish market in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils in the island nation say they have little hope that Saturday's presidential election will improve their lot by much.
Tamils form 12% of the country's 22 million population, but have long been electorally sidelined, as most candidates belong to the majority Sinhala population and many Tamils say they have no hope of a better future from those candidates.
