Sri Lanka's internal war between Sri Lanka Army and
LTTE which ended in May 2009 had cost the country Rs.200 billion according to the former Indian Foreign Secretary and National Security Advisor Shivhankar Menon.
This estimate does not include the opportunity cost which was once the fastest growing and the most open economy in South Asia according to the former Indian Foreign Secretary Menon's book "Choices inside the making of India's Foreign Policy" the Indian media has stated.
The book has stated that during 1983-2009 around 80,000 -100,000 lost their livesvdue to the war.Among them were 30,000-50,000 civilians ,23,790 Sri Lanka Army personal , 27,693 LTTE Rebels and 1155 members of Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF).
The final stages of war created a little over 300,000 refugees or internally displaced persons(IDP'S) and had also left around 1.6 million land mines in the north and eastern provinces.
The former Indian National Security Advisor Menon has stated from his book that LTTE Leader prabhakaren had left his Sri Lankan Tamil community gutted and brutalized by his war.
This estimate does not include the opportunity cost which was once the fastest growing and the most open economy in South Asia according to the former Indian Foreign Secretary Menon's book "Choices inside the making of India's Foreign Policy" the Indian media has stated.
The book has stated that during 1983-2009 around 80,000 -100,000 lost their livesvdue to the war.Among them were 30,000-50,000 civilians ,23,790 Sri Lanka Army personal , 27,693 LTTE Rebels and 1155 members of Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF).
The final stages of war created a little over 300,000 refugees or internally displaced persons(IDP'S) and had also left around 1.6 million land mines in the north and eastern provinces.
The former Indian National Security Advisor Menon has stated from his book that LTTE Leader prabhakaren had left his Sri Lankan Tamil community gutted and brutalized by his war.
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