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And of that country s long running civil war but it is still struggling with the scars and the conflict left behind the war broke out in 1903 pitting the singhalese military against the toggle liberation tigers the tunnels were fighting for an independent state for this ethnic minority in may of 2009 the sri lankan military defeated thomas separatists but at a huge human cost it s believed that some $50000.00 fighters and over 100000 civilians were killed many of them tom else today some 20000 people are still missing their fates on know d.w. went to northern sri lanka where survivors have taken the search into their own hands. 10 years of demanding an answer do you have anything still doesn t know what happened to her missing daughter the war was winding down she says when masked men tore 16 year old jeromey from her arms and fled. there were did i let go of ....
We re turning now to sri lanka and saturday will mark 10 years since the end of that country s long running civil war but is still struggling with the scars a conflict left behind the war broke out in 1903 fitting the singhalese military against the tommy oh liberation tigers the tom eagles were fighting for an independent state for this ethnic minority and may have 2009 the sri lankan military defeated the tumble separatist but at a huge human cost sought that some 50000 fighters and over 100000 civilians were killed many of them tommy else they at least 20000 people are still missing their fates unknown d.w. went to northern sri lanka where survivors have taken the search for missing family members into their own hands. 10 years of demanding an answer j. have anything still doesn t know what happened to her missing daughter the war was ....
A certain degree of autonomy now there have been hopes there have been negotiations endless negotiations over the years in attempts to rejig their constitution to give the province s a greater power so tamils would have areas where they were the majority of where they could regulate their own affairs within certain limits what those limits are they have been negotiated you know for years but there was hope that this government would finally maybe sort this out at least to some degree with their plan for a new constitution that would change a lot of other things as well as deal with this issue but that is basically ground to a halt just not the other things always seem to be more important to the politicians in colombia and that means principally that the singhalese politicians they re more concerned with fighting their own battles and you know jockeying for power and they don t want to lose votes from some number of singhalese who might be aggravated at the thought the tamils are getti ....