Sri Lanka
Practice Relating to Rule 11. Indiscriminate Attacks
In 2011, in its Humanitarian Operation Factual Analysis July 2006–May 2009, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence stated: “The LTTE’s [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s] indiscriminate attacks on civilians … made it clear that no one and nothing was safe from its violence.”
The Ministry of Defence further stated: “On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka defeated the LTTE, bringing to an end three decades of conflict and suffering.”