Eelam War I

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armed conflict phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War

Eelam War I was the initial large-scale armed conflict between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil militant groups, notably the LTTE, that marked the beginning of the protracted Sri Lankan Civil War.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Eelam War I canonical	3
First Eelam War	1
Phase I of the Sri Lankan Civil War	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	armed conflict ⓘ phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Eelam War I ⓘ surface form: First Eelam War Eelam War I ⓘ surface form: Phase I of the Sri Lankan Civil War
characterizedBy	counterinsurgency operations ⓘ guerrilla warfare ⓘ terrorist attacks ⓘ
conflictInvolving	Government of Sri Lanka ⓘ IPKF ⓘ Indian Peace Keeping Force ⓘ Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ⓘ surface form: LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ⓘ Sri Lanka Armed Forces ⓘ surface form: Sri Lankan Armed Forces Tamil militant groups ⓘ
endDate	1987-07-29 ⓘ
endYear	1987 ⓘ
followedBy	Eelam War II ⓘ
hasCause	Black July anti-Tamil pogrom ⓘ Tamil demands for autonomy and separate state of Tamil Eelam ⓘ ethnic tensions between Sinhalese and Tamil communities in Sri Lanka ⓘ
impact	escalation of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka ⓘ human rights abuses ⓘ large-scale displacement of Tamil civilians ⓘ
location	Eastern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ
partOf	Sri Lankan Civil War ⓘ
precededBy	Black July ⓘ
primaryBelligerent	EPRLF ⓘ Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front ⓘ PLOTE ⓘ Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front ⓘ surface form: People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam TELO ⓘ Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization ⓘ
region	South Asia ⓘ
relatedTo	Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism ⓘ Tamil Eelam ⓘ
result	Indo-Sri Lanka Accord ⓘ deployment of Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka ⓘ temporary cessation of large-scale hostilities in 1987 ⓘ
significantEvent	1983 Black July riots ⓘ Sri Lankan military offensives in the North and East ⓘ attacks on Sri Lankan security forces by LTTE ⓘ military operations in Jaffna Peninsula ⓘ
startDate	1983-07-23 ⓘ
startYear	1983 ⓘ
timePeriod	1980s ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sri Lankan Civil War → majorPhase → Eelam War I ⓘ

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam → notableBattle → Eelam War I ⓘ

Eelam War I → alsoKnownAs → Eelam War I ⓘ

this entity surface form: First Eelam War

Eelam War I → alsoKnownAs → Eelam War I ⓘ

this entity surface form: Phase I of the Sri Lankan Civil War

Eelam War II → precededBy → Eelam War I ⓘ