The LTTE attacks a bus traveling in Aranthalawa, in the Ampara district killing eleven civilians and injuring 27 others, six of them seriously.
Archive for April, 2008
Sri Lanka passes the Grant of Citizenship to Stateless Persons Act. All stateless persons of Indian origin lawfully resident in Sri Lanka (who were not amongst the 506,000 who had applied for Indian citizenship under the earlier pacts) were entitled to Sri Lankan citizenship under this Act.
Assassination of Daya Pathirana, the leader of the Independent Students Union (ISU) of the University of Colombo allegedly by the JVP.
The LTTE attacks a bus load of Buddhist monks in Aranthalawa, in the Ampara district. 30 monks and four civilians are killed, fifteen monks were injured.
Sri Lanka ratifies the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
The JVP holds a rally in Jaffna aiming to contest the elections in the North and East.
India advises Sri Lanka that it no longer considered the 1964 and 1974 agreements to be binding as the implementation period had expired. Sri Lanka responds that it still considered the agreements to be in force until all repatriations were completed.
Sirimavo-Gandhi Pact: India and Sri Lanka agree to grant citizenship to the remaining 150,000 Tamils of Indian origin, bringing the total agreed to: Sri Lankan citizenship – 375,000 and Indian citizenship – 600,000.
India and Ceylon reach agreement regarding the issue of stateless 'plantation' Tamils of Indian origin living in Ceylon: Sirima-Shastri Pact.
Government Parliamentary Group meets to assess the country situation and the events that led up to the Emergency.
Tamils in the north and east observe a 'hartal': shops are closed and work stops in protest against the deaths of two Tamils who were killed during the police response to an earlier demonstration.
Campaign in response to the ‘anti Sri’ campaign begins: extremist elements reciprocate with the ‘tarring’ of Tamil name boards in Colombo and elsewhere.
