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How the war between the Sri Lankan state and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam unfolded: from the Thirunelvely ambush and Black July in 1983, through the Indian intervention, the attacks of the 1990s and 2001, the 2002 ceasefire and its end, to the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009. It links to the leaders on the government side who appear in the other maps. Dashed links are attributions and accusations that no court has upheld. Findings of the United Nations are not yet included.
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