Sri Lanka: The Need for Reconciliation after Atrocities By pearlaction | February 29, 2012 | 0 Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war ended in May 2009 when the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). For more than 25 years, the LTTE had been fighting for a separate state for the nation’s minority Tamil population. Posted in Articles and tagged attacks on journalists, civilian deaths, crimes of humanity, Disappearances, justice, lack of accountability, lack of political progress, LLRC, LTTE, political settlement, reconciliation, reconstruction programs, rehabilitation, Sri Lankan military, torture, United Nations panel of advisors