1988 in Sri Lanka

The following lists events that happened during 1988 in Sri Lanka.

1988
in
Sri Lanka

Decades:
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
See also:

Incumbents

Governors

Chief Ministers

Events

  • In the north and east, soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force battled Tamil Tiger rebels.[1]
  • In the south, government death squads are engaged with equally brutal militants of the radical JVP party.
  • Sri Lanka starts their 9th parliamentary elections.

Deaths

Notes

a. ^ Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). Pg.353, Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security, Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research. ISBN 955-8093-00-9

References

  1. David Brewster. India's Ocean: the Story of India's Bid for Regional Leadership. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. "Ex-Senator Killed" (PDF). Tamil Times. VII (4): 4. March 1988. ISSN 0266-4488.
  3. Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2000). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. p. 862. ISBN 978-0-7876-4067-5.
  4. Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar (1988–89). "The Tamil Militants-Before the Accord and After". Pacific Affairs. 61 (4): 603–619. doi:10.2307/2760524. JSTOR 2760524.
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