A hospital volunteer and Sri Lankan native gives her firsthand account of the horrible sights she witnessed when civil war broke out in the region. She discusses families being torn apart, camps that the government forced civilians to live in, and children dying on the side of the road.
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The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), an independent militant organisation which fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island.
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