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The following lists notable events that took place during 2009 in Sri Lanka. The year 2009 was an eventful year for Sri Lanka, as it was the year of the conclusion of the Sri Lankan Civil War , ending the nation's near 26-year long conflict with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam .
On 10 March 2009, a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide bomber caused an explosion at a religious parade near Godapitiya Jumma mosque in Akuressa, Matara in southern Sri Lanka, killing 14 and injuring 35 civilians.
The entire Jaffna peninsula was captured by the Sri Lanka Army by 14 January 2009. [258] However, they were unable to hold out for long, and on 25 January, SLA troops captured Mullaitivu. [259] [260] The last Sea Tiger base in Chalai was next to fall on 5 February, reducing the territory under rebel control to less than some 200 km 2. [261]
In the Third Battle of Elephant Pass, Elephant Pass was recaptured from the Tamil Tigers by the armed forces of the Sri Lankan Army. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, declared that Elephant Pass was captured by the army on January 9, 2009. [1]
The Sri Lanka Air Force had been attacking LTTE positions in and around Mullaitivu for several days before the government troops claimed to have entered it. [3] After the Battle of Kilinochchi (23 November 2008 – 2 January 2009), during which the Sri Lankan military captured the LTTE stronghold of Kilinochchi , the Ministry of Defence had ...
The Battle of Chalai was an armed confrontation over control of Chalai, Sri Lanka between the 55 Division of the Sri Lankan Military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the Sri Lankan civil war, fought in February 2009.
With the Sri Lankan military on the verge of winning the war, the Tamil Tigers launched their first suicide air attack on the night of February 20, 2009. [13] Two aircraft took off from a narrow road in Puthukkudiyirippu in the Mullaithivu District, and were sighted by Sri Lanka Army personnel operating along the front lines around 8:30 pm.
On 17 May 2009 Marie Colvin received a call from Nadesan asking that she relay to the United Nations that, "they [The LTTE] would lay down their arms, they wanted a guarantee of safety from the U.S. or Great Britain, and an assurance the Sri Lankan Government would agree to a political process that would guarantee the rights of the Tamil minority".