Mullaitivu
| Mullaitivu முல்லைத்தீவு මුලතිව |
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 Sri Lanka
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| Province : | Northern Province | ||
| District : | Mullaitivu | ||
Mullaitivu ( Tamil முல்லைத்தீவு Mullaittīvu [ ˈmulːɛi̯t̪ːiːʋɯ ], Sinhala මුලතිව Mulativa [ ˈmulət̪iʋə ]; also: Mullaithivu, Mullaitheevu ) is a city in northern Sri Lanka. It is located on the east coast in the Vanni region and is the administrative seat of the Mullaitivu district of the northern province .
Mullaitivu is located in the Tamil- populated north of Sri Lanka. The city is one of the areas that were claimed by Tamil separatists as part of an independent Tamil Eelam state and was affected by the civil war in Sri Lanka (1983-2009). In the early stages of the war, the Sri Lankan army maintained a large base in Mullaitivu. The rebel organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) captured Mullaitivu on July 25, 1996 and controlled the city until the end of the civil war. In the course of their offensive in the final phase of the war, the Sri Lankan army captured Mullaitivu on January 25, 2009 as a city held by the LTTE.
In addition to the civil war, Mullaitivu was badly affected by the tsunami disaster on December 26, 2004 . A large part of the city was destroyed, and a total of 3,000 people were killed in the Mullaitivu district.
Web links
- Wolfgang Bauer: The city that no longer exists. (Report on the tsunami disaster in Mullaitivu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC News: Last Tamil Tiger bastion 'taken', Jan 25, 2009.
- ^ Assessment of the Tsunami Recovery Implementation in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts. (PDF; 76 kB) (No longer available online.) Asian Development Bank, archived from the original on June 24, 2007 ; accessed on January 8, 2016 .