How LTTE chief start the Battle:1975: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group forms and demands a separate state for Tamils in the island’s north and east.
July 1983: LTTE ambush Army patrol in Jaffna, killing 13 soldiers and sparking anti-Tamil riots.
Estimated 300 to 600 people die. The civil war begins.
July 1987: Capt. Miller drives a truckload of explosives into an Army camp in the Jaffna peninsula, killing himself and 40 soldiers in the first LTTE suicide attack.
July 1987: India and Sri Lanka sign pact to end Tamil separatism. India sends peacekeeping troops who ended up fighting the rebels.
March 1990: Indian troops withdraw.
1991: bomber assassinates India’s then-PM Rajiv Gandhi.
1993: A rebel suicide bomber kills Sri Lanka’s President Ranasinghe Premadasa.
1995: Sri Lankan forces capture Tamil rebels’ cultural capital of Jaffna.
July 1996: Rebels overrun Army camp in northeastern town of Mullativu, LTTE suicide killing 1,200 troops.
October 1997: United States bans LTTE.
January 1998: LTTE bombs Sri Lanka’s holiest Buddhist shrine, the Temple of Tooth Relic, in Kandy, killing 17 people.
July 2001: Rebels attack main air base and only international airport in Sri Lanka, destroying 13 aircraft and leaving at least 12 dead February 2002: The government signs a ceasefire agreement with LTTE.
August 2005: Foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, an ethnic Tamil who opposed a separate state for the minority, is assassinated.
November 2005: Hardliner Mahinda Rajapaksa elected president.
December 2005: Rebels launch first major attack since truce, killing at least 12 Navy sailors.
June 2006: Talks in Norway begin, aimed at restoring peace collapse.
July 2006: Rebels close sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people.
In response government launches offensive to crush the Tigers.
July 2007: Sri Lanka announces ouster of rebels from eastern zone.
November 2007: Tamil Tigers’ political wing head S.P. Thamilselvan, believed to be the second-in-command of the group, killed in a government air raid.
January 2008: Sri Lanka ends ceasefire deal.
January 2009: Military captures the Tamil Tigers' de facto capital, Kilinochchi.
January 2009: Government captures rebels last major stronghold of Mullaittivu.
May 2009: Army killed rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, his top deputies and his son Charles Anthony.
July 1983: LTTE ambush Army patrol in Jaffna, killing 13 soldiers and sparking anti-Tamil riots.
Estimated 300 to 600 people die. The civil war begins.
July 1987: Capt. Miller drives a truckload of explosives into an Army camp in the Jaffna peninsula, killing himself and 40 soldiers in the first LTTE suicide attack.
July 1987: India and Sri Lanka sign pact to end Tamil separatism. India sends peacekeeping troops who ended up fighting the rebels.
March 1990: Indian troops withdraw.
1991: bomber assassinates India’s then-PM Rajiv Gandhi.
1993: A rebel suicide bomber kills Sri Lanka’s President Ranasinghe Premadasa.
1995: Sri Lankan forces capture Tamil rebels’ cultural capital of Jaffna.
July 1996: Rebels overrun Army camp in northeastern town of Mullativu, LTTE suicide killing 1,200 troops.
October 1997: United States bans LTTE.
January 1998: LTTE bombs Sri Lanka’s holiest Buddhist shrine, the Temple of Tooth Relic, in Kandy, killing 17 people.
July 2001: Rebels attack main air base and only international airport in Sri Lanka, destroying 13 aircraft and leaving at least 12 dead February 2002: The government signs a ceasefire agreement with LTTE.
August 2005: Foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, an ethnic Tamil who opposed a separate state for the minority, is assassinated.
November 2005: Hardliner Mahinda Rajapaksa elected president.
December 2005: Rebels launch first major attack since truce, killing at least 12 Navy sailors.
June 2006: Talks in Norway begin, aimed at restoring peace collapse.
July 2006: Rebels close sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people.
In response government launches offensive to crush the Tigers.
July 2007: Sri Lanka announces ouster of rebels from eastern zone.
November 2007: Tamil Tigers’ political wing head S.P. Thamilselvan, believed to be the second-in-command of the group, killed in a government air raid.
January 2008: Sri Lanka ends ceasefire deal.
January 2009: Military captures the Tamil Tigers' de facto capital, Kilinochchi.
January 2009: Government captures rebels last major stronghold of Mullaittivu.
May 2009: Army killed rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, his top deputies and his son Charles Anthony.
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