Few of LTTE/Tamil Tiger ASSASSINATIONS OF PROMINENT SRI LANKANS

Source : Anonymous Patriot on the web


Assassination of leader of the Tamil United Liberation
Front (TULF) and former Opposition Leader A. Amirthalingam
Date: 13 July 1989Location : Bullers Lane, Colombo
Type of Attack : Shot inside his home

Assassination of Former Foreign Minister and State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijeratne
Date: 2 March 1991
Location : Havelock Town, Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Suicide Vehicle
Casualties : 25 killed, 70 injured

Assassination of Navy Commander Vice Admiral Clancy Fernando
Date: 16 November 1992
Location : Galle Face Road, Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Male suicide bomber
Casualties : 4 Naval personnel killed

ASSASINATION OF SRI LANKA PRESIDENT R. Premadasa
Date: 1 May 1993
Location : Armour Street, Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Male suicide bomber
Casualties : 15 killed, 33 injured

Assassination of PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & Opposition Leader Gamini Dissanayake
Date: 24 October 1994Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Location : Thotalanga, Colombo
Device : Female suicide bomber
Casualties : 56 killed including prominent politicians. 70 injured

Assassination of eminent Tamil intellectual and constitutional expert Dr. Neelan Thiruchelvam
Date: 29 July 1999
Location: Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device: Male suicide bomber

Assassination of Minister C. V. Gooneratne
Date: 7 June 2000
Location : Ratmalana
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Male suicide bomber
Casualties : 29 killed, 65 injured

Assassination of FOREIGN MINISTER Lakshman Kadirgamar
Date: 12 August 2005
Location : At his home, Colombo
Type of Attack : Shot by a sniper gunman

Assassination of Army Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. ParamiKulatunge
Date: 26 June 2006
Location : Pannipitiya
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Male suicide bomber
Casualties : 4 killed, 7 injured

Assassination of Deputy Secretary General of the Government Peace Secretariat Kethesh Loganathan
Date: 12 August 2006
Location : At his home, Dehiwala
Type of Attack : LTTE Pistol Group

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS IN SRI LANKA

Attempted Assassination of Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva
Date: 04 July 1996
Location : Stanley Road, Jaffna
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Suicide bomber
Casualties : 21 killed, 64 injured

Attempted Assassination of SRI LANKA PRESIDENT, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
Date: 18 December 1999
Location : Town Hall, Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Female suicide bomber
Casualties : 21 killed, 100 injured and PRESIDENT LOST ONE EYE

Attempted Assassination of Minister
Douglas Devananda
Date: 07 July 2004
Location : Kollupitiya, Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device: Female suicide bomber
Casualties: 4 killed, 9 injured

Attempted Assassination of Army Commander
Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka
Date: 25 April 2006
Location : Army Headquarters, Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device : Female suicide bomber
Casualties : 9 killed, 12 injured

Attempted Assassination of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
Date : 1 December 2006
Location : Kollupitiya, Colombo
Type of Explosive : High Explosive
Device: Male suicide bomber
Casualties: 2 killed, 12 injured