LTTE aircraft and ground troops, in a two pronged assault, attack the Sri Lankan air force base in Anuradhapura.
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Sri Lankan senior defence officials state that the latest military campaign against the LTTE could continue for a further two to three years.
A suicide attack by LTTE on Colombo's international airport, results in several deaths of armed personnel and destroyed or damaged 26 commercial and military aircraft. The attack marked the eighteenth anniversary of Black July.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike returns to power. From 1970 onwards, Bandaranaike pursues a kind of ‘socialist agenda’, through inter alia nationalisation of large companies.
