1999 in Sri Lanka

The following lists events that happened during 1999 in Sri Lanka.

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Events
  • On 16 November 1999, the fourth official presidential elections of Sri Lanka take place. Chandrika Kumaratunga, wins by a 51.12% margin amidst several assassination attempts prior to the campaign.[1][2][3][4]
  • In October 1999 the Oddusuddan offensive took place, it was a military operation in which the Tamil Tigers captured Oddusuddan from the Sri Lankan Army. The Tamil Tigers are believed to have captured large amounts of weapons & ammunitions as well as armoured vehicles in this operation.[5]

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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gollark: How could you possibly think "yes, giving this thing information which will allow arbitrary quantities of money to be withdrawn is an entirely reasonable way to do payments"?!!!?!

References
  1. "REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF 22 DECEMBER 1999". Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive.
  2. "1999 - Presidential Election". Manthree.com. Archived from the original on 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  3. "1999 Sri Lanka Presidential Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com.
  4. "Result of Presidential Election 1999" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  5. "Tigers raise flag at Oddusuddan". TamilNet. 1999-11-02. Retrieved 2009-01-02.


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