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Six rounds of peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and LTTE were held, but they were temporarily suspended after the LTTE pulled out of the talks in 2003 claiming "certain critical issues relating to the ongoing peace process". [90] [91] In 2003 the LTTE proposed an Interim Self-Governing Authority (ISGA).
The general non-Tamil public of Sri Lanka took to streets to celebrate the end of the decades-long war. Streets were filled with joyous scenes of jubilation. [311] [312] Opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe, through a telephone call, congratulated President Rajapaksa and the state security forces for their victory over the LTTE. [313]
Prabhakaran was a major figure of Tamil nationalism, and the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE was a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in reaction to the oppression of the country's Tamil population by the Sri Lankan government.
Kokilai massacre: LTTE cadres kill eleven Sinhalese civilians in the fishing village of Kokilai. Kokkilai, Mullaitivu District: 11: 11 [3] December 31: LTTE members kill 4 Tamil civilians and dump them outside of Batticaloa for refusing to fight for the group. Altogether 30 Tamil civilians were killed for similar reasons in 1984.
Eelam War I (23 July 1983 - 29 July 1987) is the name given to the initial phase of the armed conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE. [1]Although tensions between the government and Tamil militant groups had been brewing since the 1970s, full-scale war did not break out until an attack by the LTTE on a Sri Lanka Army patrol in Jaffna, in the north of the country, on July 23 ...
Operation Definite Victory (Sinhala: නියතයි ජය මෙහෙයුම) was a military operation launched by Sri Lankan Special Task Force commandos on January 4, 2007 to liberate the Kanchikudichcharu and Thoppigala regions of the Ampara District of Sri Lanka from the LTTE.
However a Sri Lanka analyst for the prominent Indian English daily The Hindu, whose chief editor N. Ram was awarded the Sri Lanka Rathna and is noted for being virulently anti-LTTE, [11] [12] states "TamilNet (www.tamilnet.com) is the unofficial mouthpiece of the Tigers in English. It is a kind of news agency chronicling the conflict as ...
A fact-finding mission by the International Center for Ethnic Studies observed that, even though Tamil and Sinhalese houses were side-by-side, only the latter were targeted. The LTTE left at around 2:30 a.m. with the Tamil villagers. The Mahaweli Authority stated that two women were raped and 29 Tamil families had fled into the jungle. [7]