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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3725183" data-attributes="member: 120286">Timeline of the War<img src="http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/TagImg/NO%20TAG.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                                                                                                                                                                 1972: Velupillai Prabhakaran forms a Tamil militant group which in 1976 changes its name to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).   July 23, 1983: LTTE ambush an army patrol, killing 13 soldiers in the Jaffna peninsula and sparking anti-Tamil riots elsewhere, leaving some 600 people, mostly Tamils, dead.   July 8, 1985: Government opens first direct talks with Tamil guerrillas. Talks fail.   July 29, 1987: India and Sri Lanka reach agreement on deployment of Indian peace-keeping force.   March 24, 1990: Indian troops withdraw with LTTE in control of large areas of northern Sri Lanka. Tigers begin running a de facto separate state.   May 21, 1991: Former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi killed allegedly by LTTE suicide bomber.   May 1, 1993: President Ranasinghe Premadasa killed by LTTE suicide bomber.   1994: President Chandrika Kumaratunga comes to power pledging to end war and opens peace talks with the LTTE. Fighting resumes in April 1995.   December 2, 1995: LTTE bastion of Jaffna falls to Sri Lankan army.   January 31, 1996: Tigers bomb the central bank in Colombo, killing 91 people.   July 18, 1996: Tigers overrun army camp in northeastern town of Mullattivu.   October 8, 1997: The United States declares the LTTE a foreign terrorist organisation.   January 25, 1998: An LTTE suicide bomb devastates Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist shrine, the Temple of the Tooth, killing 17 people. The government slaps a ban on the Tigers.   September 26, 1998: Tigers overrun Kilinochchi army camp.   December 18, 1999: President Kumaratunga wounded in assassination attempt blamed on the Tigers. Twenty-six others die.   December 30, 1999: Kumaratunga announces she has invited Norway to help bring Tigers to peace table.   February, 2001 Britain outlaws LTTE as terrorist organisation, followed swiftly by Canada and Australia.   July, 2001: Suicide attack by LTTE on the international airport kills 14.   February 21, 2002: Government and the LTTE sign a permanent ceasefire agreement, paving the way for talks to end the long-running conflict. The peace initiative is sponsored by Norway. Truce ends in January 2008.    December, 2002: At peace talks in Norway the government and the LTTE agree to share power. Under the deal, minority Tamils would have autonomy in the mainly Tamil-speaking north and east.   April 21, 2003: Tigers suspend participation in peace talks saying they are being marginalised.   March 3, 2004: Renegade Tamil Tiger commander, V. Muralitharan, known as Karuna, leads split from main LTTE movement.   Feb. 22, 2006:  Government and the LTTE meet in Switzerland for peace talks.    Nov. 2, 2007:  Tigers' political wing head S.P. Thamilselvan is killed in a government air raid.   Aug. 2, 2008:  Sri Lankan troops enter the Kilinochchi district which has been the LTTE's de facto political capital, for the first time in 11 years.    Jan. 2, 2009:  Sri Lankan forces enter Kilinochchi, leaving Tigers only the jungle district of Mullaittivu.</blockquote>

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