Sri Lankan Civil War

Sri Lanka is on an island off the coast of India

Date July 23, 1983 – May 18, 2009[1]

Location Sri Lanka
Result Decisive Sri Lankan government victory

 Rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization is wiped out

 Sri Lankan government reestablishes control over entire island

Territorial The LTTE had controlled most of the north of the country and half of the eastern coastline from 2002 to 2008.
changes In 2009 all of the territory was recaptured by the government.

Belligerents

 Sri Lanka Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

 Indian Peace Keeping Force (1987–90)

Commanders and leaders

Velupillai Prabhakaran(1983–2009)  †
 Junius Richard Jayawardene (1983–
89) Selvarasa Pathmanathan(2009) (P.O.W.)

 Rajiv Gandhi (1987–89)   †

 V P Singh (1989–90)
 Ranasinghe Premadasa (1989–93)  †
 Dingiri Banda Wijetunge (1993–94)
 Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994–2005)
 Mahinda Rajapaksa(2005–2009)

Strength
 Sri Lanka Armed Forces: LTTE:
95,000 (2001) 6,000 (2001)
118,000 (2002) 6,000 (2002)
158,000 (2003) 7,000 (2003)
151,000 (2004) 7,000 (2004)
111,000 (2005) 11,000 (2005)
150,900 (2006)[2] 8,000 (2006)
 Indian Peace Keeping Force: 7,000 (2007)[2][3]
100,000 (peak)
Casualties and losses
23,327+ killed 27,000+ LTTE's and other Tamil militants killed [8][9][10][11]
60,000+ wounded (Sri Lankan military and 1,800 Tigers captured[12]
police)[4][5][6]
1,200 killed
(Indian Peace-Keeping Force)[7]
80,000–100,000 killed overall (estimate)[13]