Eelam War II

Eelam War II
Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War
Improvised armored bulldozer of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam used in First Battle of Elephant Pass. Today, it is one of the Sri Lankan Civil War memorials.
Date 1990–1995 Location Sri Lanka Result Indecisive
Belligerents
Sri Lanka Military of Sri Lanka	File:LiberationTigersofTamilEelamFlag.jpg Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Commanders and leaders
Ranasinghe Premadasa (1989–93) Dingiri Banda Wijetunge (1993–94) Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994–1995)	Velupillai Prabhakaran

Main article: Sri Lankan Civil War

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 sinhalese 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.

LTTE launched their largest military operation known as Operation Frog in 1993.

Civilian killings

Palliyagodella massacre

Main article: 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.

See also

• Phases of the Sri Lankan Civil War
• Eelam War I
• Eelam War III
• Eelam War IV
• Sri Lankan Civil War

External links

• Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka
• GoSL Peace Secretariat
• LTTE Peace Secretariat
• Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
• Lanka Academic, news site sponsored by Sri Lankan academics worldwide
• Sangam.org
• Texts of key agreements in the peace process and an analysis of the process by Conciliation Resources
• Report on the Sri Lankan peace process by Asiafoundation
• hWeb - Sri Lanka’s recent history of ethnic conflict and political crisis originates from its colonial legacy
• NorthEast Secretariat report on Human rights 1974-2004
• hWeb - Sri Lanka’s recent history of ethnic conflict originates from its colonial legacy
• Peace&War: Humanity Ashore Pictorial