The Tamil Tigers conceded defeat in Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war on Sunday, after launching waves of suicide attacks to repel a final assault by troops determined to annihilate them.President Mahinda Rajapaksa had declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) the day before, even as combat raged in the island’s northeast and the military said it was freeing the last of thousands of trapped civilians.
By midday Sunday, the military said troops had freed all the civilians being held by the LTTE inside an area that was less than a single square km (0.5 sq mile). A total of 72,000 had fled since Thursday, it said.
What was the war about?
Prabhakaran began his fight for a separate state for Sri Lanka’s minority Tamils in the early 1970s, and it erupted into full-scale civil war in 1983.
Tamils complain of marginalization at the hands of successive governments led by the Sinhalese majority, which came to power at independence in 1948 and took the favored position the Tamils had enjoyed under the British colonial government.
I wonder if the wars we’re waging will be over in 25 years.
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