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  2. Sri Lankan Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Pictured are displaced persons from the civil war in Sri Lanka. The total economic cost of the 25-year war is estimated at US$200 billion. [353] This is approximately 5 times the GDP of Sri Lanka in 2009. Sri Lanka had spent US$5.5 billion only on Eelam War IV, which saw the end of LTTE.

  3. Tamils faced torture in Sri Lanka long after war, rights ...

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    By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in ...

  4. The Cage (Weiss book) - Wikipedia

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    The Cage. The Cage: The fight for Sri Lanka & the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers is a book about the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War written by journalist and former United Nations official Gordon Weiss. [1] Weiss was the UN's spokesman in Sri Lanka during the final months of the civil war. [2] Since leaving the UN Weiss has been a ...

  5. Casualties of the Sri Lankan Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Casualties of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The war was waged for over a quarter of a century, with an estimated 70,000 killed by 2007. [1][2][3] Immediately following the end of war, on 20 May 2009, the UN estimated a total of 80,000–100,000 deaths. [4][5] However, in 2011, referring to the final phase of the war in 2009, the Report of the ...

  6. Battle of Kilinochchi (1998) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Kilinochchi (codenamed Operation Unceasing Waves II by the Tamil Tigers) occurred in September 1998 over the control of the city of Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka (geographical coordinates 9.383333°N 80.4°E ). The battle was fought between the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

  7. Still Counting the Dead - Wikipedia

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    Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War is a book written by the British journalist Frances Harrison, a former BBC correspondent in Sri Lanka and former Amnesty Head of news. The book deals with thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians who were killed, caught in the crossfire during the war. This and the government's strict ...

  8. Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on ...

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    The Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka was a 2011 report produced by a panel of experts appointed by United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Ban Ki-moon to advise him on the issue of accountability with regard to any alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War. [1]

  9. Tamil genocide - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil genocide, also known as the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide, or the Eelam Tamil genocide, refers to the various acts of physical violence and cultural destruction committed against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka during the Sinhala – Tamil ethnic conflict beginning in 1956, particularly during the Sri Lankan Civil War.