1990 in Sri Lanka

← 1989 1988 1987 1990 in Sri Lanka → 1991 1992 1993
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 1990 Timeline of Sri Lankan history

The following lists events that happened during 1990 in Sri Lanka.

Incumbents[]

• President: Ranasinghe Premadasa

Governors[]

• Central Province – E. L. B. Hurulle (until 1 February); P. C. Imbulana (starting 1 February)
• North Central Province – E. L. Senanayake
• North Eastern Province – Nalin Seneviratne
• North Western Province – Karunasena Kodituwakku
• Sabaragamuwa Province – C. N. Saliya Mathew
• Southern Province – Leslie Mervyn Jayaratne
• Uva Province – P. C. Imbulana (until January); Tilak Ratnayake (starting February)
• Western Province – Suppiah Sharvananda

Chief Ministers[]

• Central Province – W. M. P. B. Dissanayake
• North Central Province – G. D. Mahindasoma
• North Eastern Province – Varatharaja Perumal (until 10 March)
• North Western Province – Gamini Jayawickrama Perera
• Sabaragamuwa Province – Abeyratne Pilapitiya
• Southern Province – M. S. Amarasiri
• Uva Province – Percy Samaraweera
• Western Province – Susil Moonesinghe

Events[]

• On 11 June 1990, members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a were responsible for the killing of over 600 unarmed Sri Lanka Police officers in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.^[1]
• On 20 June 1990, the town of Kalmunai was allegedly subjected to intense shelling by the Army. As a result, the LTTE withdrew from the town. Subsequently, once the Army had occupied the town, the massacre of civilians began. The UTHR said that the number of people who were killed or disappeared by the Sri Lankan Army was in excess of 1,000 and alleged that over 250 were killed. ^{[2] [3]}
• Eelam war 2 begins following the attack the Sri Lankan government placed an embargo on food and medicine entering the Jaffna peninsula and the relentlessly bombed LTTE targets in the area. The LTTE responded by attacking Sinhalese and Muslim villages and by massacring civilians.

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