Better Must Come Overall, would you say your community has benefitted from the 2003 grant of citizenship? Results by Region Total Men 7 0 5 5 7 8 7 Women Figure 9 9 4 Dickoya Women No 6 12 5 Passara 26 24 6 No Nanu Oya 25 25 12 6 Dickoya Yes 1 Passara 51 49 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Nanu Oya Yes Nuwara Eliya 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Nuwara Eliya Totals Men Figure 10 Would you say your community has achieved equality with the majority of Sri Lankan citizens as a result of the 2003 grant of citizenship? Results by Region 20 0 Total 22 Women 28 22 No Men 6 7 9 3 6 6 8 Women Figure 11 5 7 5 4 9 Dickoya 28 12 6 No Passara 40 Yes 6 Dickoya 44 1 Nuwara Eliya 60 56 Passara 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 80 Nanu Oya Yes Nanu Oya 100 Nuwara Eliya Totals Men Figure 12 When asked whether the Up-Country Tamil population has achieved equality with the majority population following the 2003 grant of citizenship, the majority of interviewees (19/30) do not view their community as having achieved such equality, with a near equal representation of women and men indicating that this was so (nine women and 10 men). The leading reason provided as to why interviewees are of this opinion is that the Sinhala majority are still very much perceived as the dominant ethnic group at the expense of the Up-Country Tamil community, wherein the needs and wants of the former take precedent over those 27