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A small, uninhabited island that is part of Sri Lanka has sparked a political row in India weeks before general elections kick off. Katchatheevu - a strip of land spanning just about 1.9 sq km (0. ...
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .
Battle of Mullaitivu (2009) / 9.266667; 80.81667. The Battle of Mullaitivu was a land battle fought between the Sri Lankan Military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for the control of the town of Mullaitivu in the Northern Theatre of Eelam War IV during the Sri Lankan civil war. The town of Mullaitivu was the last stronghold of ...
8,000 captured (government claim [5] [6]) Eelam War IV is the name given to the fourth phase of armed conflict between the Sri Lankan military and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Renewed hostilities began on the 26 July 2006, when Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets bombed several LTTE camps around Mavil Aru anicut.
Black July is generally seen as the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War between the Tamil militants and the government of Sri Lanka. [17] [20] July became a period of remembrance for the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora community around the world.
The attack took place on 31 January 1996, in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo. A lorry containing about 440 pounds of high explosives crashed through the main gate of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, a seaside high-rise which managed most of the financial business of the country. As gunmen traded fire with security guards, the suicide bomber in the ...
The Sri Lankan anti-Muslim riots were a series of religious riots targeting Muslims that began in the town of Ampara located in Sri Lanka on 26 February 2018, spreading to the Kandy District from March 2 until its end on March 10, 2018. Muslim citizens, mosques, and other properties were attacked by mobs of Sinhalese Buddhists.
Lynching of Priyantha Kumara. Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana was a 49-year-old [2] Sri Lankan man who was lynched by a mob on 3 December 2021 in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan [3] over allegations of blasphemy. [4] Supporters of the Sunni party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were believed to be part of the killing of Kumara, while the TLP officially ...