The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" id="mwAXo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">LTTE</a> are defeated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Sri_Lanka" id="mwAXs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Government of Sri Lanka">Sri Lankan government</a>, ending almost <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" id="mwAXw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">26 years of fighting</a> between the two sides.