Sri Lankas Civil War.

Sri Lanka community.

Tamils arrived on the island of Sri Lanka as invadors and traders from India.

Sinhalese woman, shown smiling.

Tamil Woman, woman usually work on tea, coffee, and rubber plantations.

Tamil Tigers, little boys who were apart of the rebel group in Sri Lanka

Sinhalese male, said male has several rounds of bullets around his neck

Disputes.

Sinhaleses disliked Tamils from the start due to the British favorism that the Tamils recieved.

With the number of disputes, eventually Sri Lanka went to a civil war that some would even call a genocide due to the targetting towards a race, though others don't classify it as a genocide but an attrocity.

Civil war begins.

Civil War Cont.

The Prime Minister of India offered a settlement with the Sri Lanka government, but they were suspicious of it. Later on, they found that she was training Tamils secretly in camps. The relationship between Sri Lanka and India was ruined and over the years, violence escalated with suicide bombings, car bombs, suitcase bombs, and landmines.The Sri Lanka army responded by gathering Tamil children, tourtering them, and kidnapping them

First Eelam War.

In 1987, India sent peacekeepers to the Sri Lanka war. India was afraid of potential harm in it's own Tamil community and floods of Tamil refugees. It was the peacekeeper's job to disarm both militants and prepare for peace talks. The peacekeepers were not able to help the scenario, if anything, they had made it worse. The Tamils refused to make peace and began sendind bombers to the Indians, over 1,200 peacekeepers died. The year after this, Tamil had sent a suicide bomber to assisinate the prime minister of India in 1990.

Second Eelam war.

When the peacekeepers withdrew, the war got even worse. It had begun when the Tamil Tigers killed 600-700 Sinhalese police officers on June 11th, 1990. This was an effort to weaken the Sinhalese Government. The police laid their weapons down and surrendered witht he promise that no harm was going ot happen to them, they then took the police officers to a forest, forced them to kneel, and shot them all. The Sri Lanka minister of defense announced that this meant all out war. The government stopped shipping medicine and food to them, the Tigers responded by killing hundreds of Sinhalese villiagers and Muslims. This caused the Muslim government to get very angry and kill many Tamils in their villiage, as well as Sinhalese school children. During July of 1991, 5,000 Tamil Tigers surrounded a governemts base, after 2,000 soilders on both sides had died they were not able to capture the key point, Jaffna.

Second Eelam War.

Third Eelam War.

In January of 1995, the Tamil Tigers signed a peace treaty with the new Government President, three months after this, they planted bombs on the gunboats, this overthrew the peace treaty. The president then declared a war of peace, which meant air force jets flying over and pounding Jaffna, with the refugee camps. whilst ground troops commited massacres elsewhere. 350,000 Tamil refugees fled, the Tamil Tigers did not like this, they launched an 8 day assault on the town, Mullaitivu, which was armed and protected by 1,400 troops. Even with air force support, it was overthrown by 4,000 guerrilla army in defensive tiger victory. More than 1,200 government soldiers were killed, the Tigers lost 332 troops.

The last major attacks.

The last Major Attacks.

The Tamil Tigers launched their first major attack after a year or so on the military, killing at least 12 Navy soldiers, to which a series of attacks followed. This cause the Sinhalese governemtn to overthrow them and declare vicotry against the Tiger Tamils.

Videos.

https://youtu.be/u2nf46cxsz4

Here is a video to watch to see how Sri Lanka was like during the war, it is quite graphic so I apologize for any blood or gore shown.

Videos.

https://youtu.be/jHM5XE9Gr5k