End of Sri Lankan Civil War

Date: May 18, 2009 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1983–2009.

The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization, that was based in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. LTTE sought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the northeast of the island in response to violent persecution and discriminatory policies against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government.