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{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict=Battle of Jaffna (1995)
|partof=the [[Sri Lankan civil war]]
|image=
|caption=
|date=October 17 - December 5, 1995
|place=[[Jaffna]], [[Sri Lanka]]
|casus=
|territory=
|result=Sri Lankan Army victory
|combatant1=[[Image:Coat of arms of Sri Lanka.svg|18px]] [[Military of Sri Lanka]]
|combatant2=[[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]]
|commander1=[[Major General]] (later General) [[Rohan Daluwatte]],<br/> [[Brigadier]] (later Major General) [[Janaka Perera]]
|commander2=
|strength1=10,000
|strength2=Unknown
|casualties1=500 killed (According to Sri Lankan Government claims)<ref name='CBA'>[http://www.comebackalive.com/df/dplaces/srilanka/index.htm Sri Lanka – DangerFinder] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105023657/http://www.comebackalive.com/df/dplaces/srilanka/index.htm |date=November 5, 2007 }}</ref>
|casualties2=Unknown<ref name='CBA'/>
|notes=
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{{Campaignbox Eelam War III}}
{{Campaignbox Sri Lankan Civil War}}

The '''Battle of Jaffna''' was a battle fought from October to December 1995 for the city of [[Jaffna]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/5/newsid_4618000/4618661.stm|title=1995: Jaffna falls to Sri Lankan army|publisher=BBC News|date=December 5, 1995}}</ref>

==Battle==
The city of Jaffna had been for years a major stronghold of the [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] (LTTE). The Tigers viewed the city as the capital of their new independent state. The city was briefly recaptured by the Indian army in 1987 during [[Operation Poomalai]] but the city was later captured again by the Tigers.

The newly-elected president of Sri Lanka, [[Chandrika Kumaratunga]], ordered this offensive after peace talks with the [[Eelam War III|LTTE broke down]] after the Tigers attacked and destroyed Sri Lankan Navy gunboats and fired anti-aircraft missiles at Sri Lankan Airforce AVRO aircraft over Jaffna. Control of the peninsula became vital to the control of [[Jaffna Airport|Palali airbase]].

On October 17, 1995, 10,000 SLA commenced the campaign to Jaffna city (25 miles away) and in a 50-day battle that lasted until December 5, 1995, up to 300 Sri Lankan Army soldiers and over 550 LTTE cadres were killed. In the end the army managed to take the city and the peninsula from the Tigers, thus crippling the LTTE, however most of the LTTE forces managed to retreat into the jungle.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9512/sri_lanka/index.html |title=Sri Lankan army hails capture of Jaffna |publisher=CNN |date=December 5, 1995 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050320065142/http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9512/sri_lanka/index.html |archivedate=March 20, 2005 }}</ref>

==Aftermath==

Initially the Army stated that the battle for Jaffna ended the war and the LTTE would never again be able to fight major battles against the government. It was believed that the insurgency was at its end. However this was not the case, which was apparent when the LTTE attacked an army detachment in Batticaloa district December 23, killing 33 troops. Military sources reported that more than 30 rebels were killed. Over the next seven months the LTTE reorganised and regrouped and in July 1996, the rebels launched [[Operation Unceasing Waves I|Operation Unceasing Waves]], which was the codename for the attack on the military base at [[Mullaitivu]]. More than 1,200 soldiers were killed and the base was destroyed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9604/21/sri.lanka/ |title=Sri Lankan troops continue push into rebel territory |publisher=CNN News |date=April 21, 1996 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050222034901/http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9604/21/sri.lanka/ |archivedate=February 22, 2005 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Battle of Jaffna (2006)]]
*[[List of Sri Lankan Civil War battles]]

==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Battle Of Jaffna (1995)}}
[[Category:Conflicts in 1995|Jaffna]]
[[Category:1995 in Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Battles of Eelam War III|Jaffna]]
[[Category:History of Jaffna District]]
[[Category:October 1995 events in Asia]]
[[Category:November 1995 events in Asia]]
[[Category:December 1995 events in Asia]]
[[Category:Indian Peace Keeping Force]]

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