Heavy fighting erupted in eastern Sri Lanka between government troops and rebels from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

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In May 2009, Sri Lankan troops mounted a massive campaign to end the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist group better known as the Tamil Tigers.

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The result looks unlikely to advance a settlement of Sri Lanka's 17-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate state in the north-east for the Tamil minority.

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War there has been waged between the Sri Lankan government, tending to represent the interests of Sri Lanka's majority, and predominately Buddhist, Sinhalese ethnic group, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who claim to represent the mostly Hindu Tamil minority.

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