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Battle scars : Sri Lanka's north counts the cost of a 26-year war World

Battle scars : Sri Lanka's north counts the cost of a 26-year war

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Sunday, June 12, 2016

On May 18, 2009, Colombo declared the end of the 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LT…

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Velupillai Prabhakaran

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Saturday, April 06, 2013

Tamil rebels in a pickup truck in Killinochchi The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( Tamil : , Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ ; commonly known a…

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The Sri Lankan Civil War United States

The Sri Lankan Civil War

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Saturday, April 06, 2013

The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka . Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency a…

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