What the records say
- When
- 23 Nov 2008 – 2 Jan 2009
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 9.38° N, 80.40° E
- Description
- 2008 battle fought between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Battle of Kilinochchi (2008–2009)
Sri Lankan civil war battle
The Battle of Kilinochchi was a land battle fought between the Sri Lankan Military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for control of the town of Kilinochchi in the Northern Theatre of Eelam War IV during the Sri Lankan civil war between November 2008 and January 2009. The town of Kilinochchi was the administrative center and de facto capital of the LTTE's proposed state of Tamil Eelam.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2008 SLA Northern offensive: The Sri Lankan Army captures the Tamil Tigers' de facto capital of Kilinochchi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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