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The Sri Lankan civil war was very costly, killing more than 100,000 civilians [320] and over 50,000 fighters from both sides of the conflict. Around 27,000+ LTTE cadres, 28,708+ Sri Lankan Army personnel, [ 321 ] 1000+ Sri Lankan police, 1500 Indian soldiers were said to have died in the conflict.
Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island nation, a human ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A series of blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, blamed on religious extremists, recalled the worst days of the country's 26-year civil war.
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. The last evidence she has is a photo from a newspaper ...
His military background and role as defense secretary in ending the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War in May 2009 contributed to his public image. [ 20 ] He received significant public attention and support, as reported by, when he was nominated as the presidential candidate for the 2019 elections, after Sri Lanka was still reeling from the ...
The Sri Lankan government tried to intimidate and silence the media and other critics of the war using a variety of threats and actions, including the use of white vans to abduct and to make people disappear. The Sri Lankan military shelled on a large scale the three Safe Zones where it had encouraged the civilian population to concentrate. It ...
The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Peace Keeping Force entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60 and 70 patients and staff. [4]
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 ...