 On 22 May 2009, Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa akasimbisa kuti 6,261 vashandi veSri Lankan Armed Forces vakanga varasikirwa noupenyu hwavo uye 29,551 vakakuvadzwa panguva Eelam War IVkubva muna Chikunguru 2006. Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara akawedzera kuti vanenge 22 000 varwi veLTTE vakanga vafa munguva iyi. Hondo yacho yakaparira kufa kwavanhuwo zvavo 80 000-100 000. Kune zvirevo zvekuti mhosva dzehondo dzakaitwa nemauto eSri Lankan uye vapanduki Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Tamil Tigers panguva yeHondo yeVanhu yeSri Lankan, kunyanya mumwedzi yekupedzisira yeHondo yeEelam Phase IV muna 2009. Mhosva dzehondo dzinonzi dzinosanganisira kurwiswa kwevagari vemo nezvivakwa zvevagari vemo nemativi ese ari maviri; kuurayiwa kwevarwi nevasungwa nemativi ese ari maviri; kutsakatika kwevanhu nemasoja eSri Lanka nemapoka emasoja anotsigirwa navo; kushomeka kwakanyanya kwechikafu, mishonga, uye mvura yakachena yevagari vemo vakavharirwa munharaunda yehondo; uye kuunganidzwa kwevana neTamil Tigers. 