Civilians
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The final throes of the war last year were horrific, with 20,000-40,000
civilians
(mostly ethnic Tamils) killed in a period of a few months by both the Sri Lankan government forces and the Tigers.
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From over 12,000
civilians
deliberately killed in civil wars in 1997 and 1998, a decade later, this figure stands at 4,000.
But then 800,000
civilians
were slaughtered in a matter of just a few months.
To put it differently, for the
civilians
that suffer the consequences of ethnic conflict and civil war, there is no good war and there is no bad peace.
Ninety percent of modern war casualties are
civilians.
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