2002 in Sri Lanka

The following lists events that happened during 2002 in Sri Lanka.

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Incumbents

Events
  • Sri Lanka participated in the 2002 Asian Games held in South Korea, from September 29 to October 14, 2002. The Sri Lankan athletes won 2 gold medals (grand total of 6), and achieved 21st spot in the event.[1]
  • Hikkaduwa National Park is established on 19 September 2002, this was done to protect the aquatic ecosystem. Formerly a wildlife sanctuary, it now serves as a national tourist attraction full of diverse wildlife.[2]

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: Besides, there are arguably more important divisions nowadays than geographical location.
gollark: At least just be honest and direct about it and directly give people in certain states an arbitrary multiplier.
gollark: It gives the votes to people in evenly split states because of the winner takes all stuff.
gollark: If you want to give people in rural areas more votes for bad reasons the electoral college is a moronically bad way to do it.
gollark: To the people posting compass results for my dataset: my visualiser thing only contains results from some specific 3-axis version for consistency.

References
  1. "Overall medal standings – Busan 2002". ocasia.org. Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  2. Senarathna, P.M. (2009). "Hikkaduwa Jathika Udhyanaya". Sri Lankawe Jathika Vanodhyana (in Sinhala) (2nd ed.). Sarasavi publishers. pp. 211–219. ISBN 955-573-346-5.


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