expelled 72,000 Muslims from the Northern Province. In the early years of Tamil political struggle for linguistic parity, a few Sri Lankan Muslims as a Tamil-speaking...

Sri Lankan Muslims) are an ethnic minority group in Sri Lanka, comprising 9.3% of the country's total population. Most of them are native speakers of...

adhere to Islam as per the Sri Lanka census of 2012. The majority of Muslims in Sri Lanka are concentrated in the Eastern Province of the island. Other areas...

fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

affected by the Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern Province of Sri Lanka by the LTTE to return to their homeland. After the end of the civil war, allegations...

saṁvidhānaya; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought to create...

The Sri Lankan anti-Muslim riots were a series of religiously motivated riots targeting Muslims in Sri Lanka. The riots originated as isolated incidents...

Sri Lanka Police (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලීසිය, romanized: Shrī Lanka Polīsiya; Tamil: இலங்கை காவல், romanized: Ilaṅkai Kāval) is the civilian national...

Expulsions in Sri Lankan Civil War may refer to Expulsion of non-resident Tamils from Colombo Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern province by LTTE...

STF is mostly stationed in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka where the LTTE was wiped out. Some small number of units are placed in Mannar District and...