Sri Lankan Civil War
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title:
Sri Lankan Civil War
text:
The Sri Lankan Civil War was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north-east of the island, due to the continuous discrimination and violent persecution against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lanka government. Violent persecution erup
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1983–2009 conflict
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War
date created:
2003-05-11T19:46:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T02:46:27Z
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