Sri Lanka's Tamils fear discrimination under new president

Sri Lanka's minority Tamils who are concentrated in the country's north, say the area still suffers from a lack of development, despite promises by its new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

As defence minister during the civil war, he oversaw a campaign which led to the defeat of the Tamil separatist movement.

Analysts say despite the building of a new railway and road linking the peninsula and mainland, the gulf between the majority Sinhalese and Tamil community is still wide.