1988 in Sri Lanka

← 1987 1986 1985 1988 in Sri Lanka → 1989 1990 1991
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	Other events of 1988 Timeline of Sri Lankan history

The following lists events that happened during 1988 in Sri Lanka.

Incumbents

• President: J. R. Jayewardene

Events

• In the north and east, soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force battled Tamil Tiger rebels.
• In the south, government death squads are engaged with equally brutal militants of the radical JVP party.
• Sri Lanka starts their 9th parliamentary elections.

Notes

a. ^{^} Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). Pg.353, Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security, Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research. ISBN 955-8093-00-9

References

• "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-02.