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The Battle of Mullaitivu was a significant milestone in the civil war, it was the worst military defeat suffered by the Sri Lankan military to that point in its history, in terms of loss of life, equipment and land since it effectively handed over control of the Mullaitivu District by its decision not to reestablish its base in the Mullaitivu ...
The Battle of Mullaitivu was a land battle fought between the Sri Lankan Military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for the control of the town of Mullaitivu in the Northern Theatre of Eelam War IV during the Sri Lankan civil war. The town of Mullaitivu was the last stronghold of the LTTE.
The Battle off the coast of Mullaitivu was a naval battle fought between the Sri Lanka Navy and Sea Tigers on 23 March 1997, off the coast of town of Mullaitivu which has been under control of the LTTE since the Battle of Mullaitivu in 1996.
Battle of Weli Oya: 28 July 1995: Weli Oya, Mullaitivu District: 2: 330: SLA victory Operation Riviresa / Battle of Jaffna: 17 October – 5 December 1995: Jaffna, Jaffna District: 500: 2,000: SLA victory Battle of Mullaitivu (1996) (a.k.a. Operation Unceasing Waves) 18–25 July 1996: Mullaitivu, Mullaitivu District: 1,242: 332: LTTE victory ...
The Mullivaikkal massacre was the mass killing of tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils in 2009 during the closing stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which ended in May 2009 in a tiny strip of land in Mullivaikkal, Mullaitivu. The Sri Lankan government had designated a no-fire zone in Mullivaikkal towards the end of the war.
At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. The former Tamil fighter ...
Battle of Mullaitivu may refer to: Battle of Mullaitivu (1996) , occurred between July 18 and July 25, 1996. Battle of Mullaitivu (2009) , occurred in January 2009 as part of the 2008 – 2009 SLA Northern offensive.
Operation Unceasing Waves may refer to three operations by the Tamil Tigers against the Sri Lankan Army: . Operation Unceasing Waves I - assault on the SLA base at Mullaitivu in July 1996; also known as the First Battle of Mullaitivu