1990 in Sri Lanka

The following lists events that happened during 1990 in Sri Lanka.

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Events
  • On 11 June 1990, members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a were responsible for the killing of over 600 unarmed Sri Lanka Police officers in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.[1]
  • Eelam war 2 begins following the attack the Sri Lankan government placed an embargo on food and medicine entering the Jaffna peninsula and the air force relentlessly bombed LTTE targets in the area. The LTTE responded by attacking Sinhalese and Muslim villages and by massacring civilians.


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
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References
  1. "Recalling the saddest day in Lankan Police history". Lanka Newspapers. Lanka Newspapers. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2011-06-12.


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