Sri Lankan Civil War
Sri Lankan Civil War
Sri Lankan Civil War
Index
Introduction
Civil war erupt
India Intervene
Second Eelam war
Third Eelam war
Long road to peace
Bibliography
Introduction
In the late 20th century, the island nation of Sri Lanka tore itself
apart in a brutal civil war. At the most basic level, the conflict
arose from the ethnic tension between Sinhalese and Tamil
citizens. The Sri Lankan Civil war was fought in Sri Lanka
from 23 July 1983 to 20 May 2009 between Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers) and
Sinhalese dominated Sri Lankan Government.
Civil War Erupts
The British granted Ceylon independence in 1948. The Sinhalese
majority immediately began to pass laws that discriminated
against Tamils, particularly the Indian Tamils brought to the island
by the British. They made Sinhalese the official language, driving
Tamils out of the civil service. The Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948
effectively barred Indian Tamils from holding citizenship, making
stateless people out of some 700,000.
Ethnic riots broke out in Colombo and other cities in 23 July 1983.
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. The Tamil Tigers
declared the "First Eelam War" (1983-87) with the aim of creating a
separate Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka called Eelam.
India Intervenes
1)
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sri-lankan-c
ivil-war-195086
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2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_
Civil_War.
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