Date: 26 December 2004 Magnitude: 9.0 The Indian Ocean Tsunami, triggered by a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake on Boxing Day, was one of the deadliest natural disasters in the world, claiming more than 250,000 lives and leaving at least two million homeless. The...
Date: January 2011 Relentless monsoon rains in January 2011 triggered severe flooding in the eastern part of Sri Lanka, killing over 40 people and forcing 400,000 to abandon their homes. More than a million people were affected in all, almost half of them...
Date: May 2009 The Sri Lankan government’s armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to an end after 25 years in May 2009, following the death of the LTTE’s leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. The conflict had torn the country apart and...
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