What the records say
- When
- 26 Jul 2006 – 18 May 2009
- Kind
- War
- Coordinates
- 7.00° N, 81.00° E
- Description
- the fourth and final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Eelam War IV
Conflict between Sri lanka and LTTE separatists
Eelam War IV was the fourth and final phase of armed conflict between the Sri Lankan military and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Renewed hostilities began on the 26 July 2006, when Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets bombed several LTTE camps around Mavil Aru anicut, with the casus belli being that the LTTE had cut off the water supply to surrounding paddy fields in the area.
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