According to the Defence Ministry, over 2,500 LTTE cadres have been killed by the military since 1 January 2008, and more than 7,200 Tigers have been killed since December 2005.
Timeline of events under "Death toll" issue
LTTE attacks army bases in Mannar and Vavuniya districts, leaving 82 combatants dead; both sides confirm the attacks.
SLMM reports that nearly 4,000 people have been killed in Sri Lanka in the previous 15 months, compared with 130 conflict deaths from the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement until the end of 2005. Total conflict related deaths: 69,000.
Almost 40,000 people are killed and 2.5 million displaced when a tsunami devastates coastal communities in the North, East and South of the island. The Government declares a national disaster.
An estimated 65,000 people have been killed to date as a result of the conflict between the LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka, according to official figures.
Operation Jayasikuru is in to its twelfth month and has resulted in over 70,000 newly displaced persons, adding to the 300,000 IDPs who were already in the Vanni. The military confirmed the death toll of some 1,100 soldiers plus over 3,000 wounded.
Nearly 1,400 soldiers are killed in an LTTE attack on the Mulaitivu army camp.
A suicide bomb explosion by the LTTE at the Central Bank building in Colombo kills more than 100 civilians. Approximately 1,300 others are wounded.
