All three games will now be played at another Colombo venue, the Sinhalese Sports Club.
This will antagonise Tamils at large, and widen the gulf between them and the Sinhalese.
The general, a Sinhalese chauvinist, won almost exclusively in areas with many Tamils and Muslims.
Moreover, the government argues, most Sri Lankans meaning primarily the ethnic-Sinhalese majority that elected it support its war-plan.
On one side, the parties of the Sinhalese majority have been bitterly divided, regularly swapping power.
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In a divided country, Mr Rajapaksa's ruthless victory is the main reason the Sinhalese love him.
Even the tea estates, which were well run by Tamils, were turned over to Sinhalese control.
The Sinhalese, some 80% of the population, are Buddhists, who pride themselves on tolerance and calm.
He says, without giving any evidence, that Muslims propagated a message that Sinhalese families should be small.
Mr Rajapaksa's military campaign is hugely popular among the Sinhalese Buddhist who make up the majority population.
The danger to Mr Rajapaksa does not stem from Sinhalese voters' sympathy for foreign criticism of him.
In fact statistics show that both the Sinhalese and Muslim population percentages have grown slightly over three decades.
The authorities are tough on perceived insults to Buddhism - the religion of the island's majority ethnic Sinhalese.
Whereas the president has an earthy charm that appeals to rural Sinhalese, Gotabaya Rajapaksa wields power more bluntly.
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Far from the war wreckage in the north, some Sinhalese, albeit a minority, are enjoying a peace dividend.
Evidence of reconciliation between Tamils and the Sinhalese-dominated government, which the president has promised, is hard to find.
But in January the Tigers bombed Kandy's Temple of the Tooth, holiest shrine of the nation's majority Sinhalese.
There is no prospect of this happening, because of the strength of Sinhalese nationalist parties in the parliament chamber.
Would any solution acceptable to most Sinhalese and Muslims also satisfy Mr Prabhakaran?
Right-wing nationalist parties, which regarded the devolution plan as an affront to the Sinhalese majority, were trounced in the election.
Mined in Sri Lanka, this stone has an unusual pinkish orange hue, dubbed Padparadscha, which means lotus blossom, in Sinhalese.
Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority, to which both candidates belong, mostly voted for the president, whom they credit with ending the war.
If devolution actually happens, what will be the fate of the Sinhalese and Muslim minorities left in a Tamil-controlled north-east province?
School history books were rewritten to give prominence only to Sinhalese heroes.
Her government nationalised the country's main industries, and placed Sinhalese in charge.
She gave the country its present Sinhalese name, changing it from Ceylon.
Many worry that without them Sinhalese hegemony will become more entrenched.
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He says the Sinhalese have real grievances, that Muslims are trying to convert people, building too many mosques - even having too many children.
Repelled by the Tigers' terrorism, and with little sympathy for Tamil grievances, most Sinhalese support the government in its campaign to obliterate the LTTE.
These Sinhalese say they fled ethnic violence in Jaffna at the start of the war in 1983, and were dispersed in various southern districts.
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