query: conflict parami kulatunga
supports: Captain general (and its literal equivalent in several languages) is a high military rank of general officer grade, and a gubernatorial title. The Sri Lanka Army (Sinhala:     "Sri Lanka Yuddha Hamudawa")(Tamil:   "Ilankai irauvam") is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is the nation's army. Established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, it was renamed when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. In 2010, the Army had approximately 200,000 regular personnel, between 20,00040,000 reserve personnel and 18,000 National Guardsmen and comprises 13 operational divisions, one air-mobile brigade, one commando brigade, one special forces brigade, one independent armored brigade, three mechanized infantry brigades and over 40 infantry brigades. From the 1980s to 2009 the army was engaged in the Sri Lankan Civil War. The Sri Lankan Civil War was an armed conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), which fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 26-year military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, bringing the civil war to an end. Lieutenant general, lieutenant-general and similar (abbrev Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a captain general. Lieutenant General Parami Sugandika Bandara Kulatunga RSP , VSV , USP , GW ( Sinhala :   ) ( born 9,October,1951 in Kandy , died 26,June,2006  ) was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army , its third highest - ranking officer . On the morning of 26 June , he was killed by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber who drove an explosives laden motorbike into his official vehicle as it was driving to a military base at Pannipitiya near Colombo . A Memorial Dedication service for Lt. Gen. Kulatunga was held at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania on October 11 , 2006 .
candidates: captain sri lankan civil war
answer: sri lankan civil war