Sri Lankan Conflict Combatants Military of Sri Lanka Indian Peace Keeping Force Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Commanders Junius Richard Jayawardene (1983-89) Ranasinghe Premadasa (1989-93) Dingiri Banda Wijetunge (1993-94) Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994-2005) Mahinda Rajapaksa (2005-present) Velupillai Prabhakaran (1983-present) Strength 111,000[1] 11,000[1] The Sri...

Background

Sri Lanka • History of Sri Lanka

Origins of the Civil War

Origins of the Civil War Black July • Riots and pogroms Human rights • State terrorism Tamil militant groups

LTTE

LTTE • Notable attacks Terrorist attacks • Attributed assassinations • Child soldiers Expulsion of Muslims from Jaffna

Major figures

Mahinda Rajapakse Velupillai Prabhakaran Karuna Amman Sarath Fonseka

Indian Involvement

Operation Poomalai Indo-Sri Lanka Accord Indian Peace Keeping Force Rajiv Gandhi • RAW

See also

Military of Sri Lanka TMVP • EPDP Notable assassinations This box: view • talk • edit

Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Tamil: தமிழீழ மக்கள் விடுதலைப்புலிகள், English: Tamileela Peoples Liberation Tigers) is a political party and paramilitary group formed in 2004 by break-away LTTE Military Head of Batticaloa district V. Muralitharan (Colonel Karuna). Karuna led a split in LTTE in 2003, breaking away chunk of the organization in the eastern part of Sri Lanka and adding another organization to the long-running Sri Lankan civil war. The president of TVMP is Colonel Karuna and the general secretary G.E. Gnanarajah. Image File history File links Flag_of_Sri_Lanka. ... The recorded History of Sri Lanka is usually taken to begin in the 6th century BCE, when the Indo-Aryan people migrated into the island from India. ... The origins of the Sri Lankan civil war lie in sharp disagreements over language, access to universities, and riots between Sri Lankas majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil community. ... 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Together with Indian-based Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front, TVMP has formed Tamileela Iykkiya Viduthalai Munnani as a united front. The purported aim and the motive of the party is to safeguard the rights of the Tamils from the district of Batticaloa.

The president of the party has consented his willingness to contest the forthcoming elections, and to enter the democratic political process.^[1]

The party claims no affiliations to any of the political parties nor the Sri Lankan government, although the LTTE claims that cadres belonging to the TMVP are used by the Sri Lankan government to kill LTTE cadres. Human rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch claim that this group is used to abduct civilians from the Jaffna peninsula.^[2] Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Human Rights Watch Banner Human Rights Watch is a United States-based international non-government organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. ... Several groups have alleged that there have been instances of state terrorism by Sri Lanka. ... Jaffna District. ...

See also

• Military use of children in Sri Lanka

Military use of children in Sri Lanka has been an internationally recognized problem since the inception of the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983. ...

References

External links

• Party website