Eelam War II

Eelam War II

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict = Eelam War II
partof = the Sri Lankan civil war


caption =
date = 1990 – 1995
place = Sri Lanka
casus =
result =
combatant1 =
combatant2 = Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
commander1 = Ranasinghe Premadasa (1989–93)
Dingiri Banda Wijetunge (1993–94)
Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994–1995)
commander2 = Velupillai Prabhakaran
strength1 =
strength2 =
casualties1 =
casualties2 =

"Eelam War II" is the name given to the second phase of armed conflict between Sri Lankan military and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The war started after the failure of peace talks between the Premadasa government and the LTTE. This phase of the war was initiated by the LTTE who massacred almost 600 Tamil and Muslim police personnel after they were ordered by the Premadasa government to surrender to the LTTE. The truce was broken on June 10, 1990. The LTTE in October expelled all the 28,000 Muslims residing in Jaffna.

Civilian killings

Palliyagodella massacre

The Palliyagodella massacre is an incident in October 1991 in which LTTE cadres massacred 109 Muslim men, women and children in Palliyagodella. The background to this massacre was the growing tension between the LTTE and the Muslim community. The Palliyagodella villagers had asked the Sri Lankan military for protection from LTTE extortion. The Sri Lankan forces issued shotguns to the Muslim villagers but these were inadequate to beat off LTTE attacks. Female LTTE cadres and child soldiers were involved in this attack.

ee also

*Sri Lankan Civil War
*Eelam War I
*Eelam War III
*Eelam War IV

External links

* [http://www.defence.lk/ Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka]
* [http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org/ GoSL Peace Secretariat]
* [http://www.ltteps.org/ LTTE Peace Secretariat]
* [http://www.slmm.lk/ Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission]
* [http://www.theacademic.org/ Lanka Academic, news site sponsored by Sri Lankan academics worldwide]
* [http://www.sangam.org/ Sangam.org]
* [http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/sri-lanka/key-texts.php Texts of key agreements in the peace process and an analysis of the process by Conciliation Resources]
* [http://www.asiafoundation.org/Locations/srilanka_publications.html Report on the Sri Lankan peace process by Asiafoundation]
* [http://www.hweb.org.uk/content/view/27/4/ hWeb - Sri Lanka’s recent history of ethnic conflict and political crisis originates from its colonial legacy]
* [http://nesohr.org/human-rights-reports/StatisticsOnCiviliansAffectedByWar.pdf?PHPSESSID=8204ff9bfa58e205f71a95c3899f8835 NorthEast Secretariat report on Human rights 1974-2004]
* [http://www.hweb.org.uk/content/view/27/4/ hWeb - Sri Lanka’s recent history of ethnic conflict originates from its colonial legacy]
* [http://www.peaceandwar-ha.blogspot.com/ Peace&War: Humanity Ashore Pictorial]


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