The civil war prevented house-to-house enumeration from taking place in most of the Northern Province from the mid-1980s onwards.
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Virtually the entire population of the Jaffna peninsula fled to the Vanni in 1995 to escape the military onslaught by the Sri Lankan military as they tried to recapture the peninsula from the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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