 Eelam War I

Eelam War I is the name given to the initial phase of the armed conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE.Although tensions between the government and Tamil militant groups had been brewing since the 1970s, full-scale war did not break out until an attack by the LTTE on a Sri Lanka Army patrol in Jaffna, in the north of the country, on July 23, 1983, which killed 13 soldiers.