Civil war in Sri Lanka
| Sri Lankan Civil War இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர் ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය |
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 The area of Sri Lanka claimed by the LTTE as Tamil Eelam, where, vast majority of the fighting took place |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Indian Peace Keeping Force (1987–90)
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 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Rajiv Gandhi (1987–1989) †
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Velupillai Prabhakaran † (1983–2009) Kumaran Pathmanathan Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan † Pottu Amman Kandiah Balasegaran Vaithilingam Sornalingam † Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja 
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| Strength | |||||||||
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Indian Peace Keeping Force:100,000 (peak) |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (excluding Auxiliary forces): 6,000 (2001) 7,000 (2003) 11,000 (2005) 8,000 (2006) 7,000 (2007) (including Auxiliary forces): 25,000 (2006) 30,000 (2008) |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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1,200 killed(Indian Peace Keeping Force) |
27,000+ killed 11,644 captured |
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| 60,000–100,000 killed overall (estimate) 800,000 displaced at peak in 2001 |
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| 16 May 2009: Sri Lankan Government declared a military defeat of LTTE. 17 May 2009: LTTE admit defeat by Sri Lankan Government. 19 May 2009: President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declares end of civil war in parliament. |
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Sri Lankan government victory
Junius Richard Jayewardene (1983–89) Ranasinghe Premadasa † (1989–93) Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1993–94) Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994–2005) Mahinda Rajapaksa (2005–2009)
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