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After defeating the insurgency led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in 1971, the Sri Lanka Armed Forces were confronted with a new conflict, this time with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and other Tamil militant groups.
The Sri Lankan civil war was very costly, killing more than 100,000 civilians [319] and over 50,000 fighters from both sides of the conflict. Around 27,000+ LTTE cadres, 28,708+ Sri Lankan Army personnel, [320] 1000+ Sri Lankan police, 1500 Indian soldiers were said to have died in the conflict. In 2008, the LTTE revealed that 22,390 fighters ...
This battle was a part of operation Jayasikurui a Sri Lankan military offensive during the Eelam war III. It commenced on 13 May 1997 in order to open a land route to the government-held Jaffna peninsula through Vanni territory held by the LTTE, by linking the government-held towns of Vavuniya and Kilinochchi.
Military sources reported that more than 30 rebels were killed. Over the next seven months the LTTE reorganised and regrouped and in July 1996, the rebels launched Operation Unceasing Waves, which was the codename for the attack on the military base at Mullaitivu. More than 1,200 soldiers were killed and the base was destroyed. [4]
The Sri Lankan military began attacking Kilinochchi from three directions on 23 November 2008. [38] Throughout December the SLA conducted three offensives in an attempt to take Kilinochchi. Heavy monsoon rains affected both sides during November and December, [ 12 ] with floods covering a large area in and around Kilinochchi. [ 39 ]
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 ...
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 town.
With the resumption of hostilities and the start of the third phase of the civil war, skirmishes brock out. In June 1995, the military camp on Mandaitivu was garrisoned by a detachment of the newly formed 10 (V) Battalion, Gemunu Watch which was a volunteer unit under the command of Captain Kithsiri R. Dharmawickrama as acting officer commanding.