Sri Lanka

The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (இலங்கை ஜனநாயக சமத்துவ குடியரசு) is a large island nation off the southern coast of India. Once known as Ceylon (until 1972), the country was declared a British crown colony in 1802 and served as an important allied military base during the Second World War. The nation was granted independence in 1948.

Sri Lanka was wracked by civil war from 1983 to 2009, pitting the government forces of the dominant Sinhalese culture against the minority Tamil population. The latter formed their own government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and armed forces, whose primary purpose was to establish an independent state in the north and east sections of the island. In May 2009, the insurrection was officially declared over.

Sri Lankan Camouflage Patterns