1989 in Sri Lanka

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Decades:

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Incumbents

President: J. R. Jayewardene (before January 2nd).
President: Ranasinghe Premadasa (after January 2nd).

Events

The JVP Insurrection comes to an end in 1989.^[1]
Sri Lanka has their 9th parliamentary elections with Ranasinghe Premadasa winning with a total of 125 seats.

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

↑ Owen Bennet (October 2013). "The Patriotic Struggle of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna: A Reappraisal" (PDF). Owen Bennet. Retrieved 12 August 2015.

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

1980 in Asia

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