Protesters demonstrate outside London's Houses of Parliament against alleged human-rights abuses in Sri Lanka on April 7, 2009. Oli Scarff / Getty ImagesWar's End Hasn't Stilled the World's Young Tamil Voices -- Time Magazine
Sri Lanka's 26 years of civil war effectively ended on May 19 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issued photo of slain Tamil Tiger head Velupillai Prabhakaran, lying on a muddy patch of ground with wide eyes and a fractured skull. His life's end terminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's decades-long fight for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority — about 10% of the population — and a cycle of violence that Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and religions have been living with for decades.
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