The Sri Lankan Civil War and Its History, Revisited in 2020
· Sri Lanka's present is haunted by memories of the island's decadeslong civil war, which began in 1983 and ended just over 10 years ago. The war was mainly a clash between the Sinhalesedominated Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) insurgent group, the latter of which had hoped to establish a separate state for the Tamil minority. The mainstream .