Permanent historical factsheet

State of Emergency

Name: State of Emergency – Sri Lanka factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Sri Lanka · Government / Government of Sri Lanka. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records

1983Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1983

Junius Richard Jayawardene1983

Colombo · Government / Government of Sri Lanka

Decalres a state of emergency following Tamil-Sinhalese unrest

Names involved

Junius Richard Jayawardene

Provenance

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