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During the war no foreign groups participated directly in the conflict but after the war human rights activists came to investigate if any human rights had been violated. A UN commissioner accused both sides of the conflict of having committed violations of human rights.

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The truth is nothing probably could have been done to stop it besides full scale international invasions to keep control of both sides. The Sinhalese were extremely nationalistic and likely would not have been stopped by normal peacekeepers.

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The war caused the Hindu-Tamil population to drop from 18% of the total down to 9%. Most were not killed but rather emigrated.

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The war began in 1983 and officially went on until 2009 when the Sri Lankan government declared victory by claiming all enemy controlled territory

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In 1948 the  Buddhist-Sinhalese people of the nation felt very discriminated by the British rulers of the time. When the British gave Sri Lanka independence the Sinhalese took over the government by using the fact that the represented a majority of the population. Due to their majority they ruled most of the government and began to discriminate against Hindu-Tamil minority of the state. Tensions rose up until 1983 when the civil war finally broke out.