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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 [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. In 2008, the LTTE revealed that 22,390 fighters ...
Military history of the Sri Lankan civil war (4 C) ... Military operations involving Sri Lanka (5 C, 3 P) P. Paramilitary organisations based in Sri Lanka (1 C, 16 P) R.
The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping role. The deployment followed the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord between India and Sri Lanka of 1987 which was intended to end the Sri Lankan civil war between separatist Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists, principally the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ...
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]
Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was the Indian military contingent performing a peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990. It was formed under the mandate of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan Accord that aimed to end the Sri Lankan Civil War between Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan military.
This category contains historical military operations which were planned or executed by independent state(s) of Sri Lanka (c. 250 BC–present). Please see the category guidelines for more information.
The operation started with Sri Lankan Army securing Kayts Island in late August, 1990 with a combined amphibious and airbone force. The First Battalion of the Gajaba Regiment (1 GR) and the First Battalion of the Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (1 SLSR) commanded by the Lieutenant Colonels Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Sarath Fonseka, respectively, cleared the Kayts Island and them jumped to the Mandaitivu ...