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1971 JVP insurrection: Marxist insurrection conducted by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the government of Sri Lanka. 1972: Sri Lanka becomes a republic, and country's name Ceylon was changes to Sri Lanka: 1983 24–30 July Black July by the government and Sinhalese mobs; Beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War: 1987 29 July Signing of the ...
"Result of Parliamentary General Election 1994" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-06.
The election signified a major political realignment in Sri Lanka. [10] Dissanayake's victory was the first time a third-party candidate was elected president. This was also the first election where neither of the top two candidates were endorsed by the United National Party or the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
"Result of Parliamentary General Election 1994" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-06.
Few now expect this timeline to hold. Sri Lanka and its bondholders had inked a preliminary deal to restructure $12.5 billion in debt on Thursday, after months of delay and objections from the IMF ...
Two of the leading presidential contenders, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and Marxist-leaning parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake, have expressed interest in reworking Sri Lanka's $2.9 ...
"1947 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. "Table 31 Parliament Election (1947)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Rajasingham, K. T. (20 October 2001). "Chapter 11: On the threshold of freedom". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Asia Times. Archived from the original on 8 November 2001.
"Parliamentary General Election 2004 – All Island Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2012-12-19.