Gamini Dissanayake, a former UNP minister and presidential election candidate, along with several other senior members of the party are killed by LTTE suicide bomber.
Timeline of events under "LTTE attacks" issue
President Premadasa is assassinated in LTTE suicide bomb attack during a UNP party rally.
A group of senior army officers including General Denzil Kobbekaduwa are killed in a land mine explosion.
New wave of fighting breaks out between government troops and the LTTE in what is dubbed as ‘Eelam War II’.
Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated in a suicide bombing in India; the LTTE is implicated.
Defense Minister Ranjan Wijeratna is assassinated.
The LTTE attacks at least two mosques in Kaththankudi, Batticoloa. The attacks took place while the prayers were being conducted. The twin attacks left an estimated 116 people dead.
The LTTE takes over areas vacated by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in the North and East. Violence between the Sri Lankan army and the LTTE escalates.
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.
Former TULF MPs, V. Dharmalingam and A. Alalasundaram, are assassinated by the LTTE.
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.
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.
