Sri Lanka civil war: 17 years later, the imprints remain
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“On May 18, the community will mark 17 years since the end of the long and horrific civil war”
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Wikipedia confirms the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009. If the current context is May 18, 2026, then 17 years have passed since 2009 (2026 - 2009 = 17). The date May 18 is widely recognized as the anniversary of the war's end.
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— SriLankan Airlines is the flag carrier of Sri Lanka and a member airline of the Oneworld airline alliance. It was launched in 1979 as Air Lanka following the termination of operations of the original …
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— Sri Lankan Moors (Tamil: இலங்கைச் சோனகர், romanized: Ilaṅkaic Cōṉakar; Arwi: اَیلَیچْ چٗونَكَرْ; Sinhala: ලංකා යෝනක, romanized: Lanka Yonaka; formerly Ceylon Moors; colloquially referred to as Sri La…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors
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— The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war
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“the memory of the war that the armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought”
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Multiple independent sources (Wikipedia and two separate web search results) explicitly state that the civil war was fought between the Sri Lankan government/armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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— The main languages spoken in Sri Lanka are Sinhala and Tamil. Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Austronesian families. Sri Lanka accords official status t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Sri_Lanka
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— The "Sri Lanka Matha" (English: "Mother Sri Lanka"; Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා මාතා, romanized: Śrī Laṅkā Mātā; Tamil: ஸ்ரீ லங்கா தாயே, romanized: Srī Laṅkā Tāyē) is the national anthem of Sri Lanka. "Sri La…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Matha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Matha
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— The Sri Lankan diaspora are a population grouping consisting of people who can trace their ancestry to the lands that make up the current modern-day state of Sri Lanka but live elsewhere.
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