The following lists events that happened during 1991 in Sri Lanka.
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Incumbents
edit- President: Ranasinghe Premadasa
- Prime Minister: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
- Chief Justice: Parinda Ranasinghe then Herbert Thambiah then G. P. S. de Silva
Governors
edit- 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
editEvents
edit- Sri Lankan Civil War
- 10 July–9 August – The First Battle of Elephant Pass took was fought between the Sri Lankan army and the LTTE over control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass, which was of strategic importance as it connected to the northern mainland of Vanni with the Jaffna Peninsula.[1]
- 2 March – Havelock Road bombing: UNP Minister of Defense Ranjan Wijeratne is killed in a car bombing. The LTTE is allegedly responsible for the attack.[2]
- The South Asian Games are held in Colombo.[3]
Notes
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Asia Times". Archived from the original on 2015-01-29. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
- ^ "On This Day 2 March - 1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast". BBC. 2 March 1991. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
- ^ Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 512. ISBN 978-1-4766-1527-1.
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