Sri+Lankan+Civil+War

Allison Mailloux Period 2 World History Ms. Dettman On the tiny island of Sri Lanka, off of the coast of India, the Tamils and the Sinhales have been fighting for 25 year. The civil war has caused the country to divide, mass destruction, and thousands of casualties and refuges throughout the island. In 1988 a civil war broke out between the Sinhales and the Tamils. This war has been going on for 25 years. The fighting finally stopped in 2009 and peace war restored to the island of Sri Lanka.
 * // Sri Lankan Civil War //**
 * // What: //**

The war has taken place mostly in the northern and eastern parts of the country. This is where most of the Tamil communities are located. The Sinhales have held the Tamil Tigers back for most of the war and did not let the tigers gain much land.
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After 11 year of arguments between the Sinhales and Tamils, Vellupilla Prabhakaran formed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE). This group war devoted to gaining control over the government and restoring the Tamil society. The LTTE became violent once they were not allowed to make the changes necessary to restore their community.
 * // Who: //**

The war started in 1983 but the arguing started much sooner. In 1972 the Sinhales took over the government and changed the language to Sinhala and the religion to Buddhism. The Tamils were outraged because they already had their own language, Tamil, and religion, Hinduism. The Sinhales did not think twice about the change because 72% of the population where Sinhales and only 10% where Tamil.
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1983 marks the official start of the war. The tiger became very aggressive fast and developed a very efficient and destructive bombing method. This method is called suicide bombing. These bombing were used by the tigers and used women to perform the bombings. These bombings and attacks have caused over 60,000 deaths, including 2 world leaders. With all of the destruction over 260,000 citizens became refuges of war. On May 14, 2009 the LTTE leader Vellupilla Prabhakaran was killed when trying to flee the country.
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During the course of the war the International Community has stepped in and tried to force peace within the country. In 1996 the International Community placed and NGO forum on the Sri Lankan government. The NGO is an international organization that was worried about Sri Lanka’s social justice and developmental progress. This program did not do much to stop the war and was removed soon after. 
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This cartoon is about all of the bombs that where dropped and how many people they killed. Sri Lankan Civil War By: Klaressa Deinhammer Period 4 Thesis: The battle of Sri Lankan was a violent war and was fought over three main reasons; religious, ethnically, and linguistically differences. The battle of Sri Lanka was fought because of the differences between the native Sinhalese people and the minority group the Tamils. The Sinhalese are mainly Buddhist and the Tamils are mainly Hindu. The differences of these two groups caused many problems but in 1983 when the Sinhalese made the official language Sinhala and the official religion Buddhism which made the Tamils feel very discriminated against and the main fighting in the civil war started. During this civil war many riots had begun and as many as 2,500 Tamils died during these riots. The civil war of Sri Lankan was between two major groups the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The Sinhalese are the native people of Sri Lanka. The Tamils live in Sri Lanka but they are the minority group. In Sri Lanka the Sinhalese make up about 82% of the population and the Tamils make up about 9.4% of the population. Due to the fact that there is not many Tamils, the Sinhalese start to try to take away some of the rights of the Tamils and the Tamils did not like that so they started to fight back. This problem with the minority ethnicity caused the beginning of the civil war. During the war about 70,000 people both Sinhalese and Tamils died. By having this many civilians and soldiers died in the 26 year war, it devastated the Tamil minority. Once this war ended both the Tamils and the Sinhalese were being accused of human right abuse. Both these ethnicity were being accused of abduction, conscription, and child soldiers. The battle of Sri Lankan has caused many problems but one of the main long term causes is terrorist attacks. Many new terrorist attacks have been taking place in Sri Lanka since the end of the war in May of 2009. Another effect in the international community is that the Tamil people surrendered and they are accepting their defeat. The Sinhalese people view this in high respect and give them credit for accepting their defeat. Their defeat was due to the death of their leader Velupilliai Prabhakaran in May of 2009. The Sri Lankan civil war started due to anti – Tamil riots, which made the Tamil people not feel good about the security of their own people. This also stated due to the Sinhalese people wanting the Tamil people out of their land. The Sinhalese people did not want the Tamil people to be in their territory because they had differences in religion. This civil war took place on a small pear shaped island in South Asia, called Sri Lanka. This is a small island and is only twenty two miles away from an Indian homeland. By having this war taken place on such a small island it caused the Sinhalese and Tamils to be close and not much space for fighting. The lack of space led to this being violent because they had nowhere to get away from the other group. This caused the war to kill many and injure many.
 * What is the Conflict? **
 * Who are the major groups involved in the conflict? **
 * What effects did the conflict have on the people/place involved then? Now? **
 * What are the effects on the international community then? Now? **
 * Why is the conflict a conflict? **
 * Where did the conflict take place? **

This cartoon is showing that the Sinhalese people are trying to force the Tamils into the ocean with the sharks and out of their land. This cartoon is also showing that the Sinhalese people also have a dog which represents the arms that the Sinhalese people used to get rid of the Tamils. This cartoon is showing that the Tamil people don’t want to fall and go away, this is true because in the Sri Lankan civil war the Tamils did not see a reason to have to leave Sri Lanka but they were forced out by the Sinhalese people without a say ing anything.