1984 in Sri Lanka

none 1984 The following lists events that happened during 1984 in Sri Lanka. Incumbents President – J. R. Jayewardene Prime Minister – Ranasinghe Premadasa Chief Justice – Neville Samarakoon then Suppiah Sharvananda Events Sri Lankan Civil War Eelam War I 28 January – A bomb explodes in Hotel Lanka Oberoi in Colombo. One employee is killed.https://books.google.com/books?id=b7F-dUh5_j8C&pg=PA38 Cycles of Violence: Human Rights in Sri Lanka Since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement Rubin Barnett R. Human Rights Watch 1987 978-0-938579-43-4 38 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. The attack was in response to an incident when three army jeeps hit a land mine, killing one soldier.Brown (edit) Cynthia Playing the "Communal Card": Communal Violence and Human Rights 1995 Human Rights Watch 1-56432-152-5 registration https://archive.org/details/playingcommunalc00brow p. 91 Notes a. a a none Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). Pg.353, Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security, Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research. 955-8093-00-9 References 1980 in Category:1980s in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Category:Years of the 20th century in Sri Lanka