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  2. Sri Lankan civil war - Wikipedia

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    Pictured are displaced persons from the civil war in Sri Lanka. The total economic cost of the 25-year war is estimated at US$200 billion. [336] This is approximately 5 times the GDP of Sri Lanka in 2009. Sri Lanka had spent US$5.5 billion only on Eelam War IV, which saw the end of LTTE.

  3. Timeline of Sri Lankan history - Wikipedia

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    1971 JVP insurrection: Marxist insurrection conducted by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the government of Sri Lanka. 1972: Sri Lanka becomes a republic, and country's name Ceylon was changes to Sri Lanka: 1983 24–30 July Black July by the government and Sinhalese mobs; Beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War: 1987 29 July

  4. History of Sri Lanka (1948–present) - Wikipedia

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    The History of Sri Lanka (Greenwood, 2005). Pieris, Anoma. Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous Nation (Routledge, 2019), 254 pp., Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Creating peace in Sri Lanka: civil war and reconciliation (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). Salter, Mark. To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka ...

  5. 15 years on, the Tamil survivors of Sri Lanka's brutal civil ...

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    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 ...

  6. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka's more recent history was marred by the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War, which began in 1983 and ended in 2009, when the Sri Lanka Armed Forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [19] Sri Lanka is a developing country, ranking 78th on the Human Development Index.

  7. Tamils faced torture in Sri Lanka long after war, rights ...

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    The 26-year civil war between separatist Tamil insurgents and government forces ended in 2009. Rights groups accuse both sides of abuses during the conflict in which 80,000-100,000 people died ...

  8. History of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka. ( Routledge, 2013). DeVotta, Neil. "From ethnic outbidding to ethnic conflict: the 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 147.1 (2018): 78–89. online

  9. Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil ...

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    MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war.