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1990 in Sri Lanka

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Other events of 1990 Timeline of Sri Lankan history

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

Contents

Incumbents

  • President: Ranasinghe Premadasa

    • 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.
  • 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.

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