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Chronology of the war

AFP, Colombo
Sri Lanka’s president has declared victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels after decades of ethnic bloodshed.
Here are the key dates in the island's long-running civil war
1972: Armed with just a revolver, Velupillai Prabhakaran forms a Tamil militant group, which eventually morphs into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LIT E).
July 23, 1983: LTTE ambushes an army patrol, killing 13 soldiers in the Jaffna peninsula and sparking anti-Tamil riots elsewhere that leave about 600 people dead.
July 8,1985: Sri Lanka opens first direct talks with Tamil guer-rilias They fail
July 29, 1987: India and Sri Lanka reach agreement on deployment of Indian peacekeepingforce.
March 24, 1990:India loses 1,200 troops at the hands of the LTTE, and withdraws to leave the Tigers in control of large swathes of northern Sri Lanka.
May 21, 1991: Former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi killed. allegedly by an ETTE suicide bomber.
May 1, 1993: Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe
Premadasa killed by LTTE 'suicidebomber.
December 2, 1995: The Sri Lankan army captures the Jaffna peninsula.
October 8,1997: The United States declares the LIT E a foreign terrorist organisation.
January 25, 1998: .An LITE suicide bomb devastates Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist shrine, die Temp le oftheToo th. killing 17 people.
September 26, 1998: Tigers overrun Kilinochchi army camp, killing more titan 1,000 government soldiers.
February 2001: Britain outlaws the LITE as a terrorist organisation, followed swiftly by Canada and Australia.
February 23, 2002: Government and Tamil Tiger rebels sign a Norwegian-brokered ceasefire agreement.
December 2002: At peace talks in Norway, the government and rebels agree to share power, with the minority Tamils enjoying autonomy in north and east.
March 3, 2004: Renegade Tamil Tiger commander, V. Muralitharan, known as Karuna, leads split from main rebel movement.
November 2,2007: The head of the Tamil Tigers' political wing, S.R Thamilselvan, is killed
in a government air raid.
January 2, 2008: Sri Lanka withdraws from the ceasefire agreement and steps up attacks against theTigers
January 2, 2009: Sri Lankan forces capture Kilinochchi, leaving the Tigers only the jungle district of Mullaittivu.
January 25,2009: Sri Lankan troops capture Mullaittivu town, confining the rebels to a stretch ofjungle.
February 20, 2009: Tamil Tiger planes conduct suicide raids against the capital Colombo
March 13,2009: The United Nations' human rights chief says both sides could be guilty ofwar crimes.
April 14, 2009: The Tamil Tigers say they are ready to nego -bate a ceasefire and restart peace talks The government refuses, telling them to surrender.
April 20,2009: Tens of thousands of trapped civilians manage to flee from the shrinking area under rebel control.
May 13, 2009: The United Nations Security Council for the first time asks warring parties to spare civilians.
May 16. 2009: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse says the rebels have been defeated.