How it all ended: Timeline by Sri Lanka Diaries

The story of Sri Lanka India relations had its own meanderings. A tipsy-topsy ride that changed the South Asian history forever.

Sri Lanka diaries bring for you a curated timeline so how it happened as it happened:

• In 1975 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam forms, start of the war for the rights of Tamil minority of Sri Lanka.

• Army blocks Jaffna routes which LTTE forays into so as to start what was next going to be called as Sri Lanka civil war.

• July 1987 India Srilanka go for a peace agreement which was followed by a peace accord signed between the two parties leading India to send peace keeping force in the Sri Lanka.

• Next came the horrendous event that shook India Sri Lanka relations were the LTTEs successful attempt in assassinating Rajiv Gandhi. A garlanding was done by a suicide bomber on May 1991 which in fact was a murder attempt.

• Tamil tigers kill Sri Lankan president Premdasa. May 1993.

• By 1995 Jaffna, the cultural capital of Sri Lanka was under control of Sri Lankan forces.

• By December 2002, Major military outbreak 

• Several outbreaks by military, rebels and vice versa for next 5 years.

• Major capture of Tamil Tiger's region Killinochchi on 2nd Jan

• Another stronghold of rebels Mullaitivvu captured by January 25th of 2009.
• After 5 months of struggle, rebels offer to lay down arms
  
  
  
  
  and it ended.............