1983 Batticaloa Jailbreak, carried out by Tamil militants in September 1983 in Sri Lanka.
Outsider Television went on to produce several documentaries for various television channels, including Dispatches, Enemies Within and Sri Lanka's Killing Fields for Channel 4, Witness and People in Power for Al Jazeera and Panorama for the BBC.
Celestina Dias (11 July 1858–26 March 1933) (née Patthinihennadige Warnadeepthia Kurukulasuriya Rodrigo), also known as Mrs. Jeremias Dias, was the wife of Jeremias Dias of Panadura, who is known for beginning the premier Buddhist School for girls in Sri Lanka, Visakha Vidyalaya, located in Bambalapitiya, Colombo.
It dealt with the complicated issues faced by a politically motivated young man in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka in 1980s.
Grant McCann Erickson is a leading Sri Lankan advertising agency and part of the McCann Worldgroup which has offices in over 130 countries and almost eight decades of multinational experience.
The grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in the highlands of the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka, and in patches of riparian forest along the Kaveri River and in the hill forests in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southern India.
It had a civilian observer mission in Sri Lanka in co-operation with Norway (previously a Nordic mission) and has explosive ordnance disposal personnel from the Icelandic Coast Guard to Lebanon and Iraq.
Abeywardana was born in 1955 to a prominent political family in Matara District, in Southern Province, where his father held local and provincial leadership positions.
The Lyceum International School, popularly known as LIS, is a private International school providing primary and secondary education in Sri Lanka.
Later he became the commanding officer of the 4 (V) Design Ceylon Engineers; Army units in Mannar; Echelon Barracks; Army units in Jaffna; Sri Lanka Army Pioneer Corps and the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, Sri Lanka Armoured Corps.
However it caused much humiliation to the government as Galle was the provincial capital of the Southern Province, the home province of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
A treaty known as the Treaty of Mannar was signed, by which Kayamkulam became a tributary.
Jeh was born in Colombo, Ceylon and emigrated to Australia as a refugee at the age of 15.
Sri Lanka does have the admiral(1) rank, but it is only awarded to the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) or as an honorary rank.
Silavaturai, named after the small partidge (bird) known in Sinhala as "kirava", is a coastal location that served as a supply point for the LTTE in the Mannar (Mannaārama) area.
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The Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph appealed both sides to respect the area as a no-war zone.
Operation Viraat, along with Operation Trishul, was an anti-insurgency operation launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in April 1988 in Northern Sri Lanka, in the provinces of Mannar to Mullaitivu and Elephant Pass to Vavuniya.
The Dutch campaign against the Portuguese began in Jaffna, passing Mannar, Tuticorin and Nagapattinam and ended in South India.
Piliyandala, Sri Lanka is one of the relatively more populated suburbs located in the Colombo District of the Western Province, Sri Lanka and it is surrounded by Moratuwa, Kesbawa, Maharagama, Pannipitiya, Bandaragama, and Kahathuduwa, which are suburbs nearby.
Students are also represented from neighbouring countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka as well as others like Kuwait, South Korea, Thailand and the USA among others.
Kottegoda was born to S. H. P. Kottegoda and Sheela Kottegoda on 6 November 1949, in Kottegoda, Matara, in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
Thereby he was sworn in as the Minister of Education, Sports, Youth, Women and Cultural Affairs in Western Province.
The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Many historians believe that Vijaya landed on the North Western coast of Sri Lanka, in the proximity of Mannar / Putlam.
Born to Arthur (proprietor planter) & Henrietta Weeratunga (née Gurusingha) of Matara and he had one sister, Krishnajina who married Ana Seneviratne ( former Sri Lankan Inspector-General of Police).
The king also had to acknowledge Dutch imperial possessions in Colombo, Matara, Kalpitiya, Galle, Trincomalee, Mannar, and Batticaloa.
He was ordained as a Buddhist monk at the age of 12, and received his education at Migadaya Pirivena,(a monk's school) in Matara.
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Under-21 Cricket T20 was introduced for the first time in the SA Games, with Bangladesh emerged victorious beating Sri Lanka in the closely contested final.
Adele Balasingham moved with her husband initially to Madras in India then on to northern part of Sri Lanka in Jaffna during the early stages of the Sri Lankan civil war that started after the 1983 Black July pogrom.
He entered the Sri Lanka Parliament in February 1989 as a nominated Member on the National List, In 1994, he was elected to parliament from the Kandy District representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was appointed by Chandrika Kumaratunga, his niece as Cabinet Minister for Power and Energy and Deputy Defense Minister.
It was established in 1082 AH/1671 AD by the venerated Muslim savant and saint of the Arwi region (modern-day South India and Sri Lanka), Shaikh Ṣadaqatullāh b.
This rank is used Sri Lanka where the officer is supposed to be in the Sri Lanka Police Service (where it is denoted by one, two or three stars depending on seniority) and the police forces of a number of other Commonwealth countries.
Deshamanya Dr. Badi-ud-din Mahmud (23 June 1904 - 1997) was a Sri Lankan politician.
He has written extensively on this theme, basing his work on studies on Sri Lanka, Cambodia and several other Asian countries.In three interconnected publications, The phantom limb: Failing judicial systems, torture and human rights work in Sri Lanka; Recovering the authority of public institutions: A resource book on human rights in Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka: Impunity, criminal justice and human rights, he analyzed to collapse of rule of law institutions in Sri Lanka.
Major General C.H. Fernando, VSV, psc, SLAC (1930 - ) is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Director of Operations, General Staff; GOC, 2 Division; Commander, Northern Command.
The Common Green Forest Lizard (Calotes calotes) is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and the Shevaroy Hills in India, and Sri Lanka.
The Canada national cricket team toured Sri Lanka in May 2001 season and played eight one-day matches against various provincial teams in Colombo, Galle, Moratuwa and Gampaha.
For the same year, 69.7% of referrals were from the following 10 countries: Iran (267), Sri Lanka (233), Afghanistan (108), Democratic Republic of Congo (90), Turkey (79), Pakistan (56), Uganda (52), Iraq (48), Nigeria (45) and Sudan (39).
The tree most commonly used is the gamboge tree (genus Garcinia), including G. hanburyi (Cambodia and Thailand), G. morella (India and Sri Lanka), and G. elliptica and G. heterandra (Myanmar).
It has made its way to several areas of the world including Sri Lanka, Indochina, and many of the U.S. Pacific Islands.
The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhist faith under the patronage of emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE, and then during the reign of Indo-Greek king Menander (r. 165/155–130 BCE) is described in the Mahavamsa, an important non-canonical Theravada Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century, in the Pali language.
Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrema, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, qfi, SLAF is a Sri Lankan fighter pilot and the current Commander of the Sri Lankan Air Force.
1975: Rupa Rathnaseeli, a 22 year old female student of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka became paralyzed as a result of jumping from the second floor of the hostel "Ramanathan Hall" to escape the physical ragging carried out by older students.
He spoke glowingly during a banquet held in his honour, commenting on the number of whaleships sent to the Southern Oceans, Milford's status as a primary seaport on the west coast of Britain, and culminated in comparing the harbour with that of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka as to be the two best he had ever seen.
In 1986, Hawksley was expelled from Sri Lanka where he had reported on a number of government atrocities in its conflict with Tamil separatists.
Division One of the 2011 EAP Trophy is due to be held in Papua New Guinea in July, with the winner due to progress to the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, the final qualification tournament for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 due to be held in Sri Lanka.
Indian army conducts joint special forces exercise and training with the special forces of countries such as US, Sri Lanka, Russia, France, Bangladesh, Thailand at this school.
Indradasa Hettiarachchi was a former Minister of Industries and Member of Parliament representing Horana in the Kalutara District, Sri Lanka.
IIT, Informatics Institute of Technology (formerly IICS, Informatics Institute of Computer Studies) is a private higher educational institute in Sri Lanka which specializes in Information Technology.
Irakkandi Bridge is the third longest bridge in Sri Lanka with a length of 300m metres.
From the late 1950s he lived in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), where his father had been Governor-General, as a Hindu yogi under the name Santhaswami.
The Kandalama Reservoir (also erroneously known as the Kandalama Lake) is a reservoir in Kandalama, Sri Lanka.
Nyanananda was born in 1940 to a Buddhist family in Galle District in Sri Lanka.
From October 1910 to December 1911, Scherman and his wife Christine undertook an extended research trip to Ceylon (today Sri Lanka), Burma (today Myanmar), and India (today India and Pakistan).
The name Marakkalage derives from the type of craft Marakkar (Marakkalam in Tamil means Wooden Ship) used in trade and warfare by the rulers of the Kuru Mandala coast (the region of the Kurus) and Sri Lanka.
As a child, during the era of Syenda Taher Saifuddin, he began the recitation of the Quran in Saifee Villa; Colombo, Sri Lanka.
He was the former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice (1970–1977), Professor of Law at University of Hong Kong (1984-1997), Ariel F Sallows Professor of Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (1992-1993), and Executive Director of Transparency International (1997-2000).
An all-rounder of note in domestic cricket, he is the brother of former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga, Sanjeeva Ranatunga and Dammika Ranatunga.
Panushanth Kulenthiran (born 26 July 1990 in Jaffna) is a Sri Lankan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or striker for Italian side A. S. D. Monreale Calcio and the Tamil Eelam national team.
In the 1960s Clarence Wijewardena was mentored by the pioneer Radio Ceylon broadcaster, Vernon Corea who helped him to reach the pinnacle of fame in the music world in Sri Lanka.
Post-conflict history of Sri Lanka is the history of Sri Lanka from the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War, in 2009, to the present.
Mapalagama Liyanage Neville Kingsley Pierre De Silva ( Professor Kingsley De Silva) 'born on October 26, 1932 in Kandana, Sri Lanka, was one of the leading Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Sri Lanka
Other overseas assignments include serving as Deputy Principal Officer in Cape Town, South Africa; Economic Officer in Libreville, Gabon; Political Officer in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Vice Consul in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Sadamali Kumuduni Dolawatte (born 10 February 1983, Colombo) is a Sri Lankan cricketer who has captained the Sri Lankan women's team in eight one-day internationals, six of them at the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup.
Later Siri Gunasinghe became a university lecturer and taught at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada where he was a Professor in the Department of History in Art.
;Sri Lankan civil-war hunger strike: In September 2008, Sarathkumar organized a one-day hunger strike, protesting the deaths of several Tamils in Sri Lanka and the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War.
Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Stigmatogobius sadanundio is a species of goby native to south Asia from India to Indonesia including Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands.
They were expelled in 1964 after demanding a discussion of the significance of the Sri Lankan LSSP's entry into the government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
In 1971 a Lieutenant Colonel, he saw combat during the 1971 Insurrection as coordinating officer, Moneragala District and later took command of the Ceylon Army General Service Corps and the Ceylon Army Pioneer Corps.
Tissa Wewa is one of the main lakes in Sri Lanka in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura built by King Devanampiyatissa.
In partnership with World Vision, Trek Bicycle and local government, World Bicycle Relief provided 24,3676 bicycles in Sri Lanka to men, women and children in greatest need following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Yasodara Devi Balika Maha Vidyalaya is a girls' school located in Gampaha district in Sri Lanka.