Sri Lankan Civil War Wikipedia. Sri Lankan Civil War The area of Sri Lanka claimed by the LTTE as Tamil Eelam, where the vast majority of the fighting took place. Date. 23 July 1. 98. May 2. 00. 912. Location. Sri Lanka. Result. Territorialchanges. Government regains total control of former LTTE controlled areas in the North and East of the country. Belligerents. Sri Lanka. Indian Peace Keeping Force1. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Commanders and leaders. J. R. Jayawardene1. Ranasinghe Premadasa 1. Kingdoms Of War Conquest Hacked Game' title='Kingdoms Of War Conquest Hacked Game' />Scary squirrel world games. D. B. Wijetunga1. Chandrika Kumaratunga1. Mahinda Rajapaksa2. R. Venkataraman1. Rajiv Gandhi1. 98. V. Prabhakaran 1. Balraj. Karuna Amman1. KPMahattaya  Pottu Amman. Shankar Soosai Strength. Sri Lanka Armed Forces 9. Indian Peace Keeping Force 1. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelamexcluding Auxiliary forces 6,0. Auxiliary forces 2. Casualties and losses 2. Sri Lankan military and police678 1,2. Indian Peace Keeping Force9 2. May 2. 00. 9 Sri Lankan Government declared a military defeat of LTTE. May 2. 00. 9 LTTE admit defeat by Sri Lankan Government. May 2. 00. 9 President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declares end of civil war in parliament. The Coming of the Andals. The Andals came late to the westerlands, long after they had taken the Vale and toppled the kingdoms of the First Men in the riverlands. The Sri Lankan Civil War was an armed conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 2. 3 July 1. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers, which fought to create an independent. Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 2. 6 year military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2. For over 2. 5 years, the war caused significant hardships for the population, environment and the economy of the country, with an initial estimated 8. In 2. 01. 3, the UN panel estimated additional deaths during the last phase of the war Around 4. During the early part of the conflict, the Sri Lankan forces attempted to retake the areas captured by the LTTE. The tactics employed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam against the actions of Government forces resulted in their listing as a terrorist organisation in 3. United States, India, Canada and the member nations of the European Union. The Sri Lankan government forces have also been accused of human rights abuses, systematic impunity for serious human rights violations, lack of respect for habeas corpus in arbitrary detentions, and forced disappearances. After two decades of fighting and four failed tries at peace talks, including the unsuccessful deployment of the Indian Army, the Indian Peace Keeping Force from 1. December 2. 00. 1, and a ceasefire agreement signed with international mediation in 2. However, limited hostilities renewed in late 2. LTTE beginning in July 2. Mitsubishi Diagnostic Program. LTTE out of the entire Eastern province of the island. The LTTE then declared they would resume their freedom struggle to achieve statehood. In 2. 00. 7, the government shifted its offensive to the north of the country, and formally announced its withdrawal from the ceasefire agreement on 2 January 2. LTTE violated the agreement over 1. Since then, aided by the destruction of a number of large arms smuggling vessels that belonged to the LTTE,2. Tamil Tigers, the government took control of the entire area previously controlled by the Tamil Tigers, including their de facto capital Kilinochchi, main military base Mullaitivu and the entire A9 highway,2. LTTE to finally admit defeat on 1. May 2. 00. 9. 2. 8 Following the LTTEs defeat, pro LTTE Tamil National Alliance dropped its demand for a separate state, in favour of a federal solution. In May 2. 01. 0, Mahinda Rajapaksa, the then president of Sri Lanka, appointed the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission LLRC to assess the conflict between the time of the ceasefire agreement in 2. LTTE in 2. 00. 9. Origin and evolutioneditThe origins of the Sri Lankan Civil War lie in the continuous political rancor between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. The roots of the modern conflict lie in the British colonial rule when the country was known as Ceylon. There was initially little tension among Sri Lankas two largest ethnic groups, the Sinhalese and the Tamils, when Ponnambalam Arunachalam, a Tamil, was appointed representative of the Sinhalese as well the Tamils in the national legislative council. In 1. 91. 9 major Sinhalese and Tamil political organizations united to form the Ceylon National Congress, under the leadership of Arunachalam, to press the colonial government for more constitutional reforms. However, British Gov. William Manning actively encouraged the concept of communal representation and created the Colombo town seat in 1. Tamils and the Sinhalese. After their election to the State Council in 1. Lanka Sama Samaja Party LSSP members N. M. Perera and Philip Gunawardena demanded the replacement of English as the official language by Sinhala and Tamil. In November 1. 93. Municipal and Police Courts of the Island the proceedings should be in the vernacular and that entries in police stations should be recorded in the language in which they are originally stated were passed by the State Council and referred to the Legal Secretary. However, in 1. 94. J. R. Jayawardene moved in the State Council that Sinhala should replace English as the official language. In 1. 94. 8, immediately after independence, a controversial law was passed by the Ceylon Parliament called the Ceylon Citizenship Act, which deliberately discriminated against the Indian Tamil ethnic minority by making it virtually impossible for them to obtain citizenship in the country. Approximately over 7. Indian Tamils were made stateless. Over the next three decades more than 3. Indian Tamils were deported back to India. It wasnt until 2. Indian Tamils living in Sri Lanka were granted citizenship, but by this time they only made up 5 of the islands population. In 1. 95. 6 Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike passed the Sinhala Only Act, which replaced English with Sinhala as the only official language of the country. This was seen as a deliberate attempt to discourage the Sri Lankan Tamils from working in the Ceylon Civil Service and other public services. The Tamil speaking minorities of Ceylon Sri Lankan Tamils, Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Moors viewed the Act as linguistic, cultural and economic discrimination against them. Many Tamil speaking civil servantspublic servants were forced to resign because they werent fluent in Sinhala. This was a prelude to the 1. Gal Oya riots and the 1. Tamil civilians perished. The civil war was a direct result of the escalation of the confrontational politics that followed. In the late 1. 96. Tamil state of Tamil Eelam began to circulate. At this time Anton Balasingham, an employee of the British High Commission in Colombo, began to participate in separatist activities. He later migrated to Britain, where he would become the chief theoretician of the LTTE. In the late 1. 96. Tamil youth, among them Velupillai Prabhakaran, also became involved in these activities. They carried out several hit and run operations against pro government Tamil politicians, Sri Lanka police and the civil administration. During the 1. 97. Policy of standardization was initiated. Under the policy, university selection was calculated based on language. Numbers of allocations were proportional to the number of applicants who sat in the examination in that language. Under this policy, university admissions were standardized to correct the disproportionately higher number of Sri Lankan Tamil students entering universities. Officially the policy was meant to discriminate in favor of students from rural areas, but in reality the policy discriminated against Sri Lankan Tamil students who were in effect required to gain higher marks than Sinhalese students to gain admission to universities. For instance, the qualifying mark for admission to the medical faculties was 2.