1991 in Sri Lanka

none 1991 The following lists events that happened during 1991 in Sri Lanka. Incumbents President: Ranasinghe Premadasa Prime Minister: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chief Justice: Parinda Ranasinghe then Herbert Thambiah then G. P. S. de Silva Governors 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 Central Province – W. M. P. B. Dissanayake North Central Province – G. D. Mahindasoma North Western Province – Gamini Jayawickrama Perera Sabaragamuwa Province – Abeyratne Pilapitiya Southern Province – M. S. Amarasiri Uva Province – Percy Samaraweera Western Province – Susil Moonesinghe Events Sri Lankan Civil War Eelam War II 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.http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DG27Df02.html Asia Times 2015-08-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20150129013754/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DG27Df02.html 2015-01-29 unfit 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.On This Day 2 March - 1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_4201000/4201675.stm BBC 2 March 1991 17 June 2011 The South Asian Games are held in Colombo.Bell Daniel Encyclopedia of International Games 17 March 2016 McFarland 978-1-4766-1527-1 512 https://books.google.com/books?id=gjPECwAAQBAJ&pg=PA512 en 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 1991 in Category:1990s in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Category:Years of the 20th century in Sri Lanka