Sri Lankan Civil War

Sri Lankan Civil War
இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர்
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ත්‍රස්තවාදය

Date	23 July 1983 – 18 May 2009 (25 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
Location	Sri Lanka
Result	Sri Lankan government victory Rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam militarily defeated Sri Lankan government reestablishes control over entire island
Territorial changes	Government regains total control of former LTTE-controlled areas in the North and East of the country.

Belligerents

Sri Lanka

Indian Peace Keeping Force (1987–90)

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Commanders and leaders

Junius Richard Jayewardene (1983–89)
Ranasinghe Premadasa † (1989–93)
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1993–94)
Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994–2005)
Mahinda Rajapaksa (2005–2009)

Rajiv Gandhi (1987–1989) †

Velupillai Prabhakaran † (1983–2009)

Kumaran Pathmanathan

Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan †

Pottu Amman

Kandiah Balasegaran

Vaithilingam Sornalingam †

Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja

Strength

Sri Lanka Armed Forces:
95,000 (2001)
118,000 (2002)
158,000 (2003)
151,000 (2004)
111,000 (2005)
150,900 (2006)

Indian Peace Keeping Force:
100,000 (peak)

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(excluding Auxiliary forces):
6,000 (2001)
7,000 (2003)
11,000 (2005)
8,000 (2006)
7,000 (2007)
(including Auxiliary forces):
25,000 (2006)
30,000 (2008)

Casualties and losses

23,327+ killed
60,000+ wounded (Sri Lankan military and police)

1,200 killed
(Indian Peace Keeping Force)

27,000+ killed
11,644 captured

60,000–100,000 killed overall (estimate)
800,000 displaced at peak in 2001

16 May 2009: Sri Lankan Government declared a military defeat of LTTE.
17 May 2009: LTTE admit defeat by Sri Lankan Government.
19 May 2009: President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declares end of civil war in parliament.

Sri Lankan government victory

Sri Lanka

Junius Richard Jayewardene (1983–89)
Ranasinghe Premadasa † (1989–93)
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1993–94)
Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994–2005)
Mahinda Rajapaksa (2005–2009)

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