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In Sri Lanka, a country divided by religion and language, the civil war between the pro-Sinhalese government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist organization, has claimed an estimated 68,000 lives since 1983.

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Today I want to talk to you about ethnic conflict and civil war.

This quickly escalated into a five-day war between Russia and Georgia, leaving Georgia ever more divided.

In Sri Lanka, a decades-long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.

They exclude people that died as a consequence of civil war, from hunger or disease, for example.

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