The first photographs I took as a professional photographer were of the Sri Lankan civil war, in 1987. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were fighting the Sinhalese majority government for a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the country. A second front opened at the same time when a Marxist political party, the JVP, took up arms against the government. The civil war between the government and the LTTE was fought largely as conventional military conflict when compared with the JVP insurgency which was more of a guerrilla campaign, with targeted killings of government officials and their families, followed by arrests and extra-judicial killings by the security services.