Eastern Mullaitivu District including Ananthapuram witnessed particularly brutal fighting between the Sri Lankan military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the final months of the Sri Lankan Civil War in early 2009 . The Battle of Aanandapuram , one of the last major battles in civil war was fought at Ananthapuram . A United Nations report found that as many as 40,000 civilians may have been killed in the final months of the civil war , mostly as a result of indiscriminate shelling by the Sri Lankan military . There are widespread allegations that both sides committed atrocities and human rights violations including war crimes
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Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War
Ananthapuram, Sri Lanka