ABSTRACT
The Sri Lankan armed forces that had been steadily encroaching on the Tamil Tigers de facto state for more than three years eventually cornered the Tiger leadership and wiped them out. The war that had cost more than 100,000 lives and billions of rupees was finally over. The crushing of the Tamil Tigers by the Sri Lankan Security Forces is a rare event in the history of counter-insurgency. The insurgency that had dragged on for nearly few decades and one that had frequently been dismissed as an unwinnable war had ended with the government forces annihilating the insurgents. The arrival of the World Wide Web has also provided scope for a considerable amount of writing by professional and amateur analysts. The works of Paul Moorcraft and Ahmed S. Hashim while being far more professional and objective in their approach than Gota's War tend to be more preoccupied with the last phase of the war than the conflict as a whole.
