Sri Lankan Civil War in popular culture

With the Sri Lankan Civil War spanning nearly 30 years, (1983-2009), it has been portrayed in a wide range of ways in popular culture.

Literature

Biography

Tamil Tigress, Niromi de Soyza, (2011)

Non fiction

Island of Blood, Anita Pratap, (2003)
The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka, Francis Boyle (2009)
The Cage, Gordon Weiss (2011)
Still Counting the Dead, Frances Harrison (2012)
Gota’s War: The Crushing of Tamil Tiger Terrorism in Sri Lanka, C. A. Chandraprema, (2012)
Dare to Dream - Heroic Tales for the Tamil Diaspora, JK Sivalingam (2012)
A Fleeting moment in my country, N. Malathy,(2012)

Novels

Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai (1994)
The Road from Elephant Pass, Nihal De Silva, (2003)
Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera, (2012)
Dare to Dream - Heroic Tales for the Tamil Diaspora, JK Sivalingam (2012)

Film & TV

Unakkaga Piranthen (1992) - Balu Anand
Purahanda Kaluwara (1997) - Prasanna Vithanage
Saroja (2000) - Somaratne Dissanayake
In the Name of Buddha (2002) - Rajesh Touchriver
Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) - Mani Ratnam
Ira Madiyama (2003) - Prasanna Vithanage
Aanivaer (2006) - John Mahendran
Kuttrapathirikai (2007) - R. K. Selvamani
Prabhakaran (2008) - Thushara Peris
The Road from Elephant Pass (2008) - Chandran Rutnam
Flying Fish (2011) - Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
Matha (2011) - Boodee Keerthisena
A Common Man (2013) - Chandran Rutnam
Madras Cafe (2013) - John Abraham
Ceylon (2013) - Santosh Sivan

Documentaries

Crayons and Paper - (2009) - Bruce David Janu
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - (2011) - Callum Macrae
Lies Agreed Upon - (2011) - Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished - (2012) - Callum Macrae
Ruthless - (2012) - Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka
No Fire Zone - (2013) - Callum Macrae
Sri Lanka's Unfinished War - (2013) - BBC

Music

Sebalanani, (2009) - Ranidu Lankage
Lions and Tigers, (1997) - Brown boogie nation

Video games

PSP

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator, (2010) - Ubisoft

See also

References

Sri Lankan Civil War in popular culture

Literature	Funny Boy (1994) Island of Blood (2003) The Road from Elephant Pass (2003) The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka (2009) The Cage (2011) Tamil Tigress (2011) Gota's War (2012) Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012) Still Counting the Dead (2012) Dare to Dream – Heroic Tales for the Tamil Diaspora (2012) Sri Lanka's Secrets: How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away with Murder (2014)

Films	Unakkaga Piranthen (1992) Purahanda Kaluwara (1997) Saroja (2000) Kaatrukkenna Veli (2001) In the Name of Buddha (2002) Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) Ira Madiyama (2003) Aanivaer (2006) Kuttrapathirikai (2007) Mission 90 Days (2007) Prabhakaran (2008) The Road from Elephant Pass (2008) Uchithanai Muharnthaal (2011) Flying Fish (2011) Matha (2012) A Common Man (2013) Madras Cafe (2013) Ceylon (2013) Pulipaarvai (2014) Dheepan (2015) Porkalathil Oru Poo (2015)

Documentaries	Crayons and Paper (2009) Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (2011) Lies Agreed Upon (2011) I Witnessed Genocide: Inside Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (2011) Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished (2012) Ruthless (2012) No Fire Zone (2013) Sri Lanka's Unfinished War (2013) White Van Stories (2013) This Land Belongs to the Army (2014) Sri Lanka: The Search for Justice (2015)

Other media	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator (video game, 2010)

Sri Lankan Civil War

Combatants

Sri Lanka	Army (LRRP) Navy Air Force Police Special Task Force Home Guards Attacks on civilians Assassinations

LTTE	Divisions Air Tigers Sea Tigers Black Tigers Attacks in the 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Assassinations Suicide bombings

Other militants (list)	ENDLF ENLF EPRLF EROS PLOTE TELO

India	Indian Peace Keeping Force

Paramilitary	EPDP TMVP

Phases

Major Events

Leaders

Sri Lanka

Military

Army	Tissa Weeratunga Nalin Seneviratne Hamilton Wanasinghe Cecil Waidyaratne G. H. De Silva Rohan Daluwatte C. S. Weerasooriya L. P. Balagalle Shantha Kottegoda Sarath Fonseka

Navy	Asoka de Silva H. A. Silva Clancy Fernando D. A. M. R. Samarasekara H. C. A. C. Thisera Daya Sandagiri Wasantha Karannagoda

Air Force	Dick Perera Andibuduge Fernando Makalandage Gunawardena Oliver Ranasinghe Jayalath Weerakkody Donald Perera Roshan Goonetileke

Civilian

LTTE

Militant	Velupillai Prabhakaran Pottu Amman Karuna Amman

Political	Selvarasa Pathmanathan Anton Balasingham S. P. Thamilselvan

India

Military	Harkirat Singh Ashok K. Mehta

Civilian	R. Venkataraman Rajiv Gandhi V. P. Singh

Aftermath

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