UNP parliamentarian Mohammed Mashroof is assassinated along with his driver and 4 year old son.
Timeline of events under "Civilian deaths" issue
Thousands are displaced when the military forces launch a massive operation in the northern Vanni region for control of a key highway that would give it land access to the former LTTE stronghold of Jaffna. The operation is codenamed Jayasikuru or 'Victory Assured'.
The LTTE attacks a bus traveling in Aranthalawa, in the Ampara district killing eleven civilians and injuring 27 others, six of them seriously.
Two bombs explode in a Colombo commuter train killing 64 people and wounding 400 others; the LTTE is blamed for the attack.
A suicide bomb explosion by the LTTE at the Central Bank building in Colombo kills more than 100 civilians. Approximately 1,300 others are wounded.
In protest to the Indian presence, a resurrected JVP orchestrates a second armed uprising.
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.
Bomb explosion kills 113 persons and injures more than 300 in the Pettah market area in Colombo.
128 civilians killed and more than 60 injured following an LTTE attack near Kitulottuwa along the Habarana-Trincomalee road.
Bomb explosion in an Air Lanka plane bound for Male at the Katunayake International Airport kills 17 passengers and injures 24.
Reports that 63 Tamil men were killed after being taken into custody by police commandos belonging to the Special Task Force.
Reports that 48 Tamil passengers travelling from Delft to Nainativu on a ferry were killed by unidentified men. The Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) alleged that navy personnel may have carried out the killings.
One of the first attacks on Sinhalese civilians by Tamil militants. At least 146 men, women and children are killed at the central bus stand at the Anuradhapura town.
Reports that 75 Tamil civilians, including women and children, were killed, allegedly by army personnel in and around Valvettiturai, Jaffna.
Claimed to be the first mass killing of Sinhalese civilians carried out by the LTTE, the 'Kent and Dollar Farm massacres' of reportedly 70 Sinhalese villagers took place in two tiny farming villages in the district of Mullaitivu, North Eastern Sri Lanka.
