Can you provide a source for that? I can't find anything in a casual Google search.

Sure: https://thuppahis.com/2022/07/28/the-mahaweli-project-the-mo...

> One underlying motive of the settlement pattern was to change the demographics of the Eastern Province, and it was clearly UNP policy laid down by JR and energetically implemented by Gamini. In Systems H and C 90% of the settlers were Sinhala and 10% Muslim – there were no Tamils although the land was in the Eastern Province, a majority Tamil province.

It's one of the many dark parts of our history.

Colonization? Like the rethoric around Panama, Greenland, and Canada?

What? No I mean actual colonization. You can look up the Mahaweli Development programme, it was specifically designed (under the guise of creating fertile land/pastures) to colonize more of the Sri Lankan region. "Somehow" there ended up being cities that were 94% Sinhalese and only Sinhalese-language was used in USAID made documents/guides/brochures, despite being the least used language among 3.

USAid wasn’t even in existence for six months after the program you’re talking about. That had nothing to do with us.

https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnabr388.pdf https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/ar/5177914681133389...

By this point you could have just googled this yourself, I’m left to wonder why you’re making me do it for you. It’s not a secret.