The Indian intervention in theSriLankan Civil War was the deployment ofthe Indian Peace Keeping Force in SriLanka intended to perform a peacekeeping...
Parliamentary elections were held in SriLanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. Theelections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been...
Parliamentary elections were held in SriLanka on 21 July 1977. Theresult was a landslide victory for the United National Party, which won 140 ofthe 168 seats...
TheSriLankan Civil War (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya; Tamil: இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர், romanized: Ilaṅkai...
the minority throughout the rest ofthe country. 70% ofSriLankan Tamils in SriLanka live in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Modern SriLankan Tamils...
languages and ethnicities. The Sinhalese people form the majority ofthe population, followed bytheSriLankan Tamils, who are the largest minority group...
Police Commission. The current Inspector Generalof Police (Acting) is Deshabandu Tennakoon. During theSriLankan civil war, the police service became...
The Rajapaksa family (Sinhala: රාජපක්ෂ, romanized: Rājapakṣa) is a SriLankan family that is prominent in politics. It was one ofSriLanka's most powerful...
number as stateless people. Bythe 1990s most of these had been given SriLankan citizenship. Most are Hindus with a minority of Christians and Muslims amongst...
a SriLankan politician who is the 9th and current President ofSriLanka. He also holds several ministerial positions, including the Minister of Finance...
establishment of the Kingdom of Tambapanni in the 6th century BCE bythe earliest ancestors ofthe Sinhalese. The first SriLankan ruler ofthe Anuradhapura Kingdom...
National Party rule and a revival of SriLankan democracy. Democracy in SriLanka had seemed doomed as the presidencies of J.R. Jayewardene and Ranasinghe...
began in March 2022 against the government ofSriLanka. The government was heavily criticized for mismanaging theSriLankan economy, which led to a subsequent...
Terrorism in SriLanka has been a highly destructive phenomenon during the 20th and 21st centuries, especially so during the periods oftheSriLankan Civil...
The 8th Parliament ofSriLanka was a meeting ofthe Parliament ofSriLanka, with the membership determined bytheresultsofthe 1977 parliamentary election...
intervention in theSriLankan Civil War 1987–1989 JVP insurrection 15 February – 1989SriLankan parliamentary election: SriLanka holds their 9th parliamentary...
born 20 June 1949) is a former SriLankan politician and military officer, who served as the eighth President ofSriLanka from 18 November 2019 until his...
1967) is a SriLankan politician. He is the current Leader ofthe Opposition ofSriLanka and Member of Parliament for Colombo District. He is the current...