Sri Lanka: January 22, 2000

Archives

  Fighting in the north left seven LTTE rebels dead. During a major search operation in the capital, during the curfew hours, some 3,000 people were detained. Some 5,000 police and soldiers were involved. Most were quickly released, but over 200 were held for further questioning. The curfew was imposed to facilitate the search.

Article Archive

Sri Lanka: Current 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999

X

ad

Help keep us a float!

Your support helps us keep our ship a float. We appreciate anyway you chose to help out. Visit us daily, subscribe, donate, and tell your friends.

You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  2. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
  3. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on X.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close