Sri Lanka: Memorial to an LTTE female soldier and Tamil Tiger 'martyr', born 23 August 1981, died 2 May 2009, during the last phase of the Sri Lanka Civil War. Photo by LTTE (CC BY-SA 3.0 License)

The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 June, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers and other few rebel groups), a separatist militant organization which fought to create an independent Tamil state named Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 26 year long military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.

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LTTE (CC BY-SA 3.0 License)

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SRI LANKA CIVIL WAR