![]() ![]() ![]() After a 26-year military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, bringing the civil war to an end. Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), a separatist militant organisation which fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Massacres: Black July - 1985 Valvettiturai - Kumudini - Akkaraipattu - Prawn farm - Eastern University - 1990 Batticaloa - 1991 Kokkadichcholai - Jaffna lagoon - Navaly - Nagerkovil- Allaipiddy - Vankalai - Muttur - Kent and Dollar Farm - Anuradhapura - Aranthalawa - Kattankudi mosque - Palliyagodella - Kallarawa - October 1995 - Gonagala - Kebithigollewa - Jaffna Hospital - 1989 Valvettiturai Mass graves: Chemmani - Duraiappa - Mirusuvil - Sooriyakanda : Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declares civil war over in parliament.įirst – IPKF intervention – Second – Third – Fourth – Battles and operations – Bombings and terrorist attacks – Other military attacks : LTTE admit defeat by Sri Lankan Government. : Sri Lankan Government declared a military defeat of LTTE. In 2009 all of the territory was regained by the government.Ħ0,000+ wounded (Sri Lankan military and police) Ģ7,000+ LTTE's and other Tamil militants killed Ħ0,000–100,000 killed overall (estimate) ![]() The LTTE had controlled most of the north of the country and half of the eastern coastline from around 2002 to 2008. Tamil National Alliance drops the demand for a separate state.Sri Lankan government reestablishes control over entire island.Rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organisation is wiped out. ![]() Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India ![]()
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