Suicide bomber kills Major General Parami Kalutunge and three others at a military base in Colombo.
Timeline of events under "Assassinations" issue
A suicide bomber attacks the main military compound in Colombo, killing at least eight people and injuring some 27 others, including the commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka.
Tamil journalist working for the ‘Sudar Oli’ newspaper S. Sugirdharajan, is gunned down in Trincomalee. Sugirdharajan is the third Tamil journalist to have been killed in the past 12 months.
Joseph Pararajasingham, TNA parliamentarian, is assassinated while attending mass.
State of emergency declared after Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar is assassinated. The LTTE is accused of carrying out the killing.
Tamil language TV news presenter and journalist, Relangi Selvarajah, and her husband are shot dead by unknown gunmen in Colombo.
'Taraki' Sivaram, a Tamil journalist and political analyst with Tamilnet, is murdered in Colombo.
8 people are shot dead in a suburb of Colombo. The LTTE claims that they were top aides of Karuna, whom they accuse of working with the army - a charge the military denied.
Kumar Ponnambalam, Tamil parliamentarian and President of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, is assassinated.
President Kumaratunga narrowly escapes a suicide bomb attack with injuries, including the loss of one eye, during an election rally.
Dr. Neelan Thiruchelvam, Tamil constitutional lawyer and parliamentary member of the TULF, is assassinated by a suicide bomber in Colombo. The attack is blamed on the LTTE.
A bomb blast at the Municipal Council kills Pon Sivapalan, who took over as mayor of Jaffna after the death of Mrs Yogeshwaran. Some of Jaffna top military leaders were killed along with him.
Rev. Chandra Fernando, human rights activist and priest, is killed.
Sarojini Yogeshwaran, the first female mayor of Jaffna, is assassinated by suspected LTTE gunmen.
Army Brigadier Larry Wijeratne is killed by a suicide bomber.
