Genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka
Tamil genocide தமிழர் இனப்படுகொலை Tamil civilians being displaced from parts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts as a result of the Sri Lanka Army's military offensive in September 2008.
Location Sri Lanka Date 1956-2009 Target Sri Lankan Tamils Attack type
Genocide , Mass Murder , Ethnic Cleansing , Genocidal rape , Collective Punishment , mass arrests Deaths 1956–2009 : 154,022 to 253,818 Tamil civilians killed:[ 1]
1956–2001 : 79,155 Tamil civilians killed: 54,044 killed + 25,266 disappeared forever (TCHR, 2004)[ 2]
2002–2008 Dec : 4,867 Tamil civilians killed: 3,545 killed + 1,322 disappeared forever (Pro-rebel NESOHR )[ 3]
2009 Jan–May : 169,796 Tamil civilians killed (ITJP, 2021)[ 4]
2009 Jan–May Tamil civilians killed & unaccounted: 40,000 to 70,000 (UN )[ 5] [ 6]
Injured 1956–2004 : 61,132 Tamil civilians[ 2] Victims 1956–2004 : Tamil civilians[ 2]
Raped: 12,437 women
Arrest/Torture: 112,246
Displaced: 2,390,809
Perpetrators Sri Lanka Armed Forces , Sri Lankan government , Sri Lanka Police , Sinhalese mobsMotive Anti-Tamil sentiment, Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism , Sinhalisation
The Tamil genocide, also known as the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide, or the Eelam Tamil genocide , refers to the various acts of physical violence and cultural destruction committed against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka during the Sinhala –Tamil ethnic conflict beginning in 1956, particularly during the Sri Lankan Civil War . Various commenters have accused the Sri Lankan state of responsibility for and complicity in Tamil genocide and point to state-sponsored settler colonialism , state-backed pogroms , and mass killings , enforced disappearances and sexual violence by the security forces as examples of genocidal acts.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 11] [ 12] The conflict and its brutal end have sparked an international debate and they have also led to calls for accountability and justice.[ 13] [ 14] [ 15]
^ WP:CALC from below
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^ "Collection of NESoHR's Human Rights Reports 2005-2009" (PDF) . NESHOR . p. 659-861. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2024.
^ Death Toll In Sri Lanka's 2009 War https://itjpsl.com/assets/ITJP_death_toll_A4_v6.pdf
^ "Report of the Secretary-General's Internal Review Panel on United Nations Action in Sri Lanka" . United Nations . November 2012. p. 14. Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2021 .
^ Macrae, Callum (3 September 2013). "Sri Lanka: Slaughter in the no fire zone" . The Guardian . London, U.K. Archived from the original on 13 June 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2021 .
^ Veerasingham, Ramanan (11 December 2013). "Sri Lanka guilty of genocide against Eelam Tamils with UK, US complicity: PPT" . Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) . Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .
^ Fernando, Jude Lal (2014). "The Politics of Representations of Mass Atrocity in Sri Lanka and Human Rights Discourse: Challenges to Justice and Recovery". In Admirand, Peter (ed.). Loss and Hope: Global, Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Perspectives . A&C Black. pp. 28–35. ISBN 978-1-4725-2907-7 .
^ Kingsbury, Damien (2012). Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect: Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide . Routledge . pp. 82–93. ISBN 978-0-415-58884-3 .
^ MacDermot, Niall, ed. (December 1983). "THE REVIEW" (PDF) . ICJ Review (32). International Commission of Jurists: 24.
^ Harman, William (1 July 2021). "Dying to be Remembered: Tamil Warriors' Desecrated Burial Plots (Tuyilum Illam) in Sri Lanka's Civil War" . Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies . 6 (1): 66–87. doi :10.36886/nidan.2021.6.1.5 .
^ Waldock, Charlotte (26 June 2022). "The Tamilian Struggle For Justice In Sri Lanka: Acknowledging The Tamil Genocide" . Human Rights Pulse . Human Rights Pulse, Make justice a priority. Retrieved 21 March 2024 .
^ "Still No Justice on Sri Lanka War Anniversary" . Human Rights Watch . 16 May 2023. Archived from the original on 11 May 2024.
^ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (22 June 2022). " 'We want justice, not fuel': Sri Lanka's Tamils on north-south divide" . The Guardian . Archived from the original on 7 May 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .