1998 in Sri Lanka

The following lists events that happened during 1998 in Sri Lanka.

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  • Bolstered by successes in 1997, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam unleash phase 2 of Operation Unceasing Waves on September 1998. The LTTE captures the town of Killinochi in the North East, but lose Mankulam to the Sri Lankan Army.[1]
  • Local government elections were held in Sri Lanka on 29 January 1998 for 17 local authorities on the Jaffna peninsula, in the north of the country.[2][3]

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
gollark: Can you also forbid people from entering protected chunks? You could make protected chunk walls.
gollark: It seems like a fairly obvious purpose.
gollark: Really? I didn't think cryonics was that popular.
gollark: Oh, good point, I didn't realize that that existed and would be a workable way to test that. Guess it's probably fine then.
gollark: I would probably sign up for cryonics if I had the relevant money, which I do not.

References
  1. CNN - Rebels launch heavy assault on Sri Lankan army - October 7, 1998
  2. "TNA urges PM to put off NE local polls". TamilNet. 11 September 2002. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  3. "Local Elections Postponed". Tamil Times. XV (12): 5–6. 15 December 1996. ISSN 0266-4488.


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