| Tamil genocide தமிழர் இனப்படுகொலை | |
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| Part of Sri Lankan Civil War | |
 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, ethnic cleansing, genocidal rape, collective punishment, mass murder, mass arrest, forced displacement, bombardment, targeted killings, starvation as method of war, torture. |
| Deaths | 1956–2009: 154,022 to 253,818 Tamil civilians killed:[1]
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| Injured | 1956–2004: 61,132 Tamil civilians[2] |
| Victims | 1956–2004: Tamil civilians[2]
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| Perpetrators |  Sri Lanka Armed Forces, Sri Lankan government, Sri Lanka Police, Sinhalese mobs |
| Motive | Anti-Tamil sentiment, Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, Sinhalisation |
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The Tamil genocide refers to the various systematic 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 a genocide of Tamils, 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]
The conflict and its brutal end have sparked an international debate and they have also led to calls for accountability and justice.[10][11][12] The framing of the atrocities as a genocide has also been advocated by various organizations in the Tamil diaspora as a contentious feature of their campaigns.[13] The Sri Lankan government has rejected the charges of genocide.
- ^ 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.
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- Fernando 2014, pp. 28–35
- Kingsbury, Damien (2012). Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect: Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide. Routledge. pp. 82–93. ISBN 978-0-415-58884-3.
- Short 2016, pp. 93–126
- 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.
- ^ MacDermot, Niall, ed. (December 1983). "THE REVIEW" (PDF). ICJ Review (32). International Commission of Jurists: 24.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Walton, Oliver (2015-05-03). "Framing disputes and organizational legitimation: UK-based Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora groups' use of the 'genocide' frame since 2009". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38 (6): 959–975. doi:10.1080/01419870.2014.948478. ISSN 0141-9870.