From Sri Lanka with “Love”
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by JULIAN VIGO-MAY 20, 2015
On 16 May, 2009, the Sri Lankan military announced its defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Two days later the LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed and the military insurgency was over. The Sri Lankan Civl War was officially declared over on 19 May, 2009 having taken the lives of between 80,000 and 100,000 people. Aside from leaving a legacy of human rights violations that are still being addressed within and outside the country, this conflict resulted in many former UN workers coming forth to report egregious violations by two agencies of the United Nations, UNICEF and UNHCR.
