Correct Option: B

In 2000, Norway was invited by a joint venture between the Sri Lankan government headed by President Kumaratunga and the Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) to take the role of facilitator in the peace process. In 2002, a cease-fire agreement was established between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers. In 2006, the cease-fire agreement was renewed by incoming President Mahindra Rajapaksa. However, in 2008, the Sri Lankan government headed by President Mahindra Rajapaksa axed the peace deal. The Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) with the majority of the officers from Norway had to leave the country. Subsequently, the Tamil Tigers were totally defeated by the Sri Lankan government in May 2009. Norway’s peace efforts in Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2009 produced nothing functional but the ephemeral cease-fire agreement with broader implications between the two warring parties. Norway’s role in the Sri Lankan peace process is by and large a failed undertaking on the subject of bringing an end to the civil war.