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    The Sri Lankan Civil War (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya; Tamil: இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர், romanized: Ilaṅkai...
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  • War crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War are war crimes and crimes against humanity which the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and the Liberation...
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  • of the civil war. Several human rights groups have even claimed that the death toll in the last months of the war could be 70,000. The Sri Lankan government...
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  • The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping...
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  • origins of the Sri Lankan Civil War lie in the continuous political rancor between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Sri Lankan Tamils. According...
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    beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War in the 1980s, it is distinguished by an emphasis on themes relating to the conflict. Sri Lankan Tamil dialects are...
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    Sri Lankan Moors (Tamil: இலங்கைச் சோனகர், romanized: Ilaṅkaic Cōṉakar; Arwi: اَیلَࢳَیچْ چٗونَكَرْ‎; Sinhala: ලංකා යෝනක, romanized: Lanka Yonaka; formerly...
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  • During the Sri Lankan Civil War militant groups, paramilitary groups and government security forces were accused of assassinating many public figures on...
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  • Between 2008 and 2009, major protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War (often referred to as the Tamil protests by Western news media) took place in several...
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  • rebel strongholds. The table below lists all major battles of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The information included in the table has been pieced together from...
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    imposed in Sri Lanka. As of 2021 it is the 14th largest military in the world, with 1.46% of the Sri Lankan population actively serving. Sri Lanka has a military...
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    India–Sri Lanka relations, Indian-Sri Lankan relations, or Indo-Sri Lanka relations, are the bilateral relations between India and Sri Lanka. India has...
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    Squadron (Sri Lanka) Rapid Action Boat Squadron Naval and Maritime Academy Hoods Tower Museum Sri Lankan Civil War  Sri Lanka portal "Sri Lanka's plan to...
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    throughout the Sri Lankan Civil War. The SLAF operates more than 160 aircraft. The Commander of the Air Force is the professional head of the Sri Lanka Air Force...
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    in Sri Lanka (12.6% of the country's population). During the Sri Lankan Civil War, many Tamils emigrated; Hindu temples, built by the Sri Lankan Tamil...
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    The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is native to Sri Lanka and one of three recognised subspecies of the Asian elephant. It is the type subspecies...
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    The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora refers to the global diaspora of Sri Lankan Tamil origin. It can be said to be a subset of the larger Sri Lankan and Tamil...
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  • The Sri Lankan diaspora are Sri Lankan emigrants and expatriates from Sri Lanka, and their descendants, that reside in a foreign country. They number...
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  • Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene. The accord was expected to resolve the Sri Lankan Civil War by enabling the thirteenth...
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    Inspector General of Police (Acting) is Deshabandu Tennakoon. During the Sri Lankan civil war, the police service became an integral part of maintaining of the...
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  • was formed in 1983 with the support of the Mahaweli Authority and the Sri Lankan armed forces. The Sinhalese settlers were trained in firearm use and strategic...
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  • Sri Lanka has been a highly destructive phenomenon during the 20th and 21st centuries, especially so during the periods of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)...
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  • Sri Lankan Americans (Sinhala: Sri Lankika Amerikanu, Tamil: Ilangkaī Amerikan) are Americans of full or partial Sri Lankan ancestry. Sri Lankan Americans...
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    the civil war found "credible allegations" which, if proven, indicated that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by the Sri Lankan Armed...
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  • Tamil phonology and Tamil script § Letters. Sri Lankan Civil War Tamil Eelam "Tagore's influence on Lankan culture". Hindustan Times. 12 May 2010. "The...
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  • under the control of the Sri Lankan government, which includes the Sri Lankan Army, Sri Lankan Navy, Sri Lankan Air Force, Sri Lankan Police Service, state-backed...
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  • Asian countries. Sri Lanka's poverty headcount index was 4.1% by 2016. Since the end of the three-decade-long Sri Lankan Civil War, Sri Lanka has begun focusing...
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    institutional bases for Sri Lanka's separatist war 1." Nations and Nationalism 11.1 (2005): 141-159. Ganguly, Sumit. "Ending the Sri Lankan civil war." Dædalus 147...
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    country's tourism industry, which began in earnest after the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009. The government initiatives in the development of tourism...
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    Province is sometimes referred to as "Sri Lanka's Tamil country". The majority of fighting in the Sri Lankan Civil War took place in the Northern province...
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