Civil+War+in+Sri+Lanka

Sri Lanka: Civil War against Government Forces // The Sri Lankan Civil War is an ongoing conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers that has caused destruction to property and land of both opponents, a large amount of deaths, and disturbance to the civilians. //

 The Sri Lankan civil war is a war fought between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Also known as the Tamil Tigers. The Tamil Tigers are a separatist militant organization who fought to create an independent Tamil state. They want to name the state Tamil Eelam and locate it in the north and east of the island. The government and the Tamil Tigers have been through more than two decades of fighting and three failed attempts at peace talks. After a 30-month-long military campaign, the Sri Lankan government defeated the Tamil Tigers in May of 2009.                 // The political cartoon above shows the Tamil Tigers as the Tigers and the government and they are fighting with a gun and a sword. //  The violent and devastating civil war was on the island of Sri Lanka. It was not just in one specific spot in Sri Lanka, it was all over the island.  The conflict of the Sri Lankan civil war begun in 1983 and ended in May of 2009. In May, the Sri Lankan military defeated the remaining Tamil Tigers and declared the victory after the twenty-six year war. As a result, celebrations broke out all over the 20 mile island of Sri Lanka.   This conflict of a civil war in Sri Lanka is a conflict because the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also known as the Tamil Tigers, wanted an independent state for all of the Tamil Tigers. The government did not approve of this matter and as a result of this decision, the Tamil Tigers decided to go to war. A civil war that is.  The effects of this particular conflict were devastating. On this twenty mile long island, over seventy thousand people died. That is the total number of people who died since the start of the war in 1983. The land that the Tamil Tigers and the military forces have been fighting on since the start of the war has also been damaged due to the weapons used during these battles.  The major groups involved in this Sri Lankan civil war are the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also known as the Tamil Tigers as stated in earlier paragraphs, and the Sri Lankan government/military.      //
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The above picture shows the Sri Lankan military on their form of transportation after the army captured the Tamil Tigers. //