Significant1983 – 2009 · 26 years

Sri Lankan Civil War

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Sri Lanka · Colombo · Jaffna

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Lengthy civil war between government and Tamil separatist LTTE. Government victory ended conflict in 2009.

Belligerents2

Sri Lanka
LTTE

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Sri Lankan Civil War (1983 – 2009). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/sri-lankan-civil-war · Sources & methodology