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In November 1984, alleging Tamils as terrorists, the Superintendent of Police in Vauvuniya Arthur Herath raided and drove away the residents of Kent and Dollar Farm. Subsequently, Sinhala ex-convicts and prisoners were settled there. [7] The settlement of prisoners was used to further harass Tamils into leaving the area.
Sri Lankan Civil War. Eelam War I; 28 January – A bomb explodes in Hotel Lanka Oberoi in Colombo.One employee is killed. [1]4 December – 1984 Mannar massacre: The Sri Lanka Army perpetuates a brutal massacre of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians in the town of Mannar, claiming the lives of roughly 107–150 ethnic Tamils.
13 August 1984: Vavuniya: 6 + Army [54] August 1984 Mannar massacre: 13 August 1984: Mannar: 90: Army [55] Kaithady massacre: 14 August 1984: Kaithady, Jaffna: 9: Army [56] 1984 Point Pedro massacre: 2 September 1984: Point Pedro, Jaffna: 18: STF, Army [57] [58] [59] Mallavi junction massacre: 6 September 1984: Mallavi, Mullaitivu: 5: Army [60 ...
1984 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
Harischandra Wijayatunga was born in 1931 at Madamulla (Sinhala: මැඩෑමුල්ල) in Minuwangoda, Sri Lanka.His father, Wijayatunga Mudalige Don Bastian Wijayatunga, was an Ayurvedic eye physician, landed proprietor and a planter (coconut and paddy) and his mother was Amarawathie Jayasinghe.
The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was an accord signed in Colombo on 29 July 1987, between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene.The accord was expected to resolve the Sri Lankan Civil War by enabling the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act of 1987.
The seized drug would have been worth up to NZ$3.8 million, about $2.2 million USD, said the New Zealand Customs Service in a news release Woman Attempting to Smuggle 22 Pounds of Meth Wrapped as ...
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]