1988 in Sri Lanka

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Incumbents

President: J. R. Jayewardene

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.

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

↑ David Brewster. "India’s Ocean: the Story of India’s Bid for Regional Leadership. Retrieved 13 August 2014".

"Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.

1980 in Asia

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