ДЄn estimated 70,000 had been killed by 2007. After a 26-year military campaign, the Sri Lankan Armed Forces militarily defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, bringing the civil war to an end. Shortly after gaining independence, Sinhala was recognized as the sole official language of the nation. These were carried out by the majority Sinhalese mobs often with state support, in the years following Sri Lanka's independence from the British Empire in 1948. Violent persecution erupted in the form of the 1956, 1958, 1977, 19 anti-Tamil pogroms, as well as the 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north-east of the island, due to the continuous discrimination and violent persecution against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese dominated Sri Lankan Government. Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Velupillai Prabhakaran-led Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers). : President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declares end of civil war in parliament. : LTTE admit defeat by Sri Lankan Government.

: Sri Lankan Government declared a military defeat of LTTE. Territorial integrity of Sri Lanka preserved.Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam ( government in exile) established.Tamil National Alliance drops its demand for a separate Tamil state.Collapse of the Tamil Eelam de facto state.Sri Lankan government reestablishes control over entire island.Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam militarily defeated.

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