1991 in Sri Lanka
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The following lists events that happened during 1991 in Sri Lanka.
Incumbents
Events
- The First Battle of Elephant Pass took place on July 1991 for the purpose of controlling the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass, which was of strategic importance as it was attached to the northern mainland known as Wanni with the Jaffna Peninsula.[1]
- The UNP Minister of Defense, Ranjan Wijeratne, is killed in a car bomb. The LTTE is supposedly responsible for it.[2]
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
- ↑ Asia Times
- ↑ "On This Day 2 March - 1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast". BBC. 2 March 1991. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
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