It wasn't until 2003, 55 years after independence, that all Indian Tamils living in Sri Lanka were granted citizenship but by this time they only made up 5% of the island's population.
直到2003年，也就是斯里蘭卡獨立後的55年，住在斯里蘭卡的印度泰米爾人得到公民身分，但是在此時他們只占島上5%的人口。