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The following lists events that happened during 1992 in Sri Lanka.
Incumbents
- President: Ranasinghe Premadasa
- Prime Minister: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
- Chief Justice: G. P. S. de Silva
Governors
- Central Province – P. C. Imbulana
- North Central Province – E. L. Senanayake
- North Eastern Province – Nalin Seneviratne
- North Western Province – Montague Jayawickrama
- Sabaragamuwa Province – Noel Wimalasena
- Southern Province – Leslie Mervyn Jayaratne
- Uva Province – Abeyratne Pilapitiya
- Western Province – Suppiah Sharvananda
Chief Ministers
Events
- Mylanthanai massacre takes place on 9 August 1992 when 35 minority Sri Lankan Tamils, including 14 children, at Mylanthanai in Batticaloa District in Sri Lanka, were killed.[1]
- A series of attacks take place on civilians in the villages of Alanchipothana, Karapola, Madurangala and Muthugal in eastern Polonnaruwa District, Sri Lanka on 29 April 1992 leaving 157 dead.[2][3][4]
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
References
- ↑ "Mylanthanai case". BBC. November 26, 2002. Retrieved 2006-01-08.
- ↑ "Sri Lanka: Deliberate killings of Muslim and Tamil villagers in Polonnaruwa". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ↑ "SRI LANKA:When will justice be done?". Amnesty International. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-07-14. Retrieved 2007-07-19.
- ↑ "Chapter 7 - MASSACRES IN THE POLONNARUWA DISTRICT". Report 11. University Teachers for Human Rights. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
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