Sri Lankans celebrate end of war - 18 May 09

  • 12 years ago
The Sri Lankan government has declared victory and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have announced they will "silence [their] guns".

Thousands of wounded and hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians are now left to pick up the pieces, following more than 25 years of conflict over a Tamil homeland.

Al Jazeera's Minelle Fernandez reports.

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