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Peace talks eventually broke down, and the Sri Lanka Army launched a military campaign to defeat the LTTE in 2006. Prabhakaran, who had said, "I would prefer to die in honour rather than being caught alive by the enemy", [19] was killed in a firefight with the Sri Lankan Army in May 2009. [20] Charles Anthony, his eldest son, was also killed. [20]
International condemnation against the LTTE skyrocketed following the attempted assassination of the commander of the Sri Lanka Army, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, by a female LTTE Black Tiger suicide bomber named Anoja Kugenthirasah, who concealed the explosives by appearing to be pregnant and blew herself up at army headquarters in Colombo. For ...
2008–2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive. The 2008–2009 SLA Northern offensive was an armed conflict in the northern Province of Sri Lanka between the military of Sri Lanka and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The battle began with a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive attempting to break through the LTTE defence lines ...
Jai Hind. Jai Hind (Hindi: जय् हिन्द्, IPA: [dʒəj ɦɪnd]) is a salutation and slogan that originally meant "Victory to Hindustan ", [1] and in contemporary colloquial usage often means "Long live India" [2] or "Salute to India". Coined by Champakaraman Pillai [3][4] and used during India's independence movement from British ...
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).
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (abbr. RSS; Rāṣṭrīya Svayaṃsevak Saṅgh, Hindi pronunciation: [raːʂˈʈriːj (ə) swəjəmˈseːʋək səŋɡʱ], lit. 'National Volunteer Organisation') [7] is an Indian right-wing, [8][9] Hindu nationalist [10][11] volunteer [12] paramilitary organisation. [13] It is the ...
National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ; Arabic: جماعة التوحيد الوطنية; Jamā‘at at-Tawḥīd al-Waṭanīyah, "National Monotheism Organisation") is a Sri Lankan Islamist jihadist militant group implicated in the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. [4][5] It is believed to have ties to the Islamic State (ISIL). [6] President of Sri ...
Black July (Tamil: கறுப்பு யூலை, romanized: Kaṟuppu Yūlai; Sinhala: කළු ජූලිය, romanized: Kalu Juliya) was an anti- Tamil pogrom [5] that occurred in Sri Lanka during July 1983. [6][7] The pogrom was premeditated, [8][9][10][11][note 1] and was finally triggered by a deadly ambush on a Sri Lankan Army ...