Sri Lankan Civil War - Wikipedia
WEBThe Sri Lankan Civil War (Tamil: இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர், romanized: Ilaṅkai uḷnāṭṭup pōr; Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya) was a civil war …
15 years on, the Tamil survivors of Sri Lanka's brutal civil war live ...
WEBJun 1, 2024 · Members of the Tamil diaspora from across Europe gathered to remember Prabhakaran 15 years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, which pitted Sri Lankan government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists.
The Sri Lankan Civil War and Its History, Revisited in 2020
WEBAug 31, 2020 · Sri Lanka’s present is haunted by memories of the island’s decades-long civil war, which began in 1983 and ended just over 10 years ago. The war was mainly a clash between the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) insurgent group, the latter of which had hoped to establish a separate state ...
The Sri Lankan Conflict - Council on Foreign Relations
WEBMay 18, 2009 · The conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has lasted nearly three decades and is one of the longest-running civil wars in Asia....
UN to collect evidence of alleged Sri Lanka war crimes - BBC
WEBMar 23, 2021 · Many Tamils have no news of loved ones who disappeared during the war. The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has been authorised to collect and preserve evidence of alleged...
Overview of the Sri Lankan Civil War - ThoughtCo
WEBJul 8, 2019 · Tamil Tiger insurgents killed 13 army soldiers, prompting violent reprisals against Tamil civilians by their Sinhalese neighbors across the country. Between 2,500 and 3,000 Tamils likely died, and many thousands more fled to Tamil-majority regions.
Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war …
WEBMay 18, 2024 · A Sri Lankan Tamil war survivor is consoled by another as she cries for her deceased family members during a remembrance ceremony on a small strip of land where thousands of civilians were trapped during the last stages of the country’s civil war in Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 17, 2024.
Sri Lankans honour Tamil victims of civil war after 13 years
WEBMay 19, 2022 · Sri Lankan protesters have lit flames and offered prayers remembering thousands – including ethnic Tamil civilians – killed in the final stages of the country’s decades-long civil war.
For Sri Lanka, a Long History of Violence - The New York Times
WEBApr 21, 2019 · The Tamil Tigers, an armed insurgent group that identified itself as secular, launched deadly attacks, including some of the earliest use of suicide bombings as a tactic of insurgency. In...
U.N. to Gather Evidence of Atrocities in Sri Lanka Civil War
WEBMarch 23, 2021. GENEVA — Responding to a decades-long push for accountability in the Sri Lankan civil war, the United Nations will set up a team of investigators to collect evidence of...