INDIA
PAKISTAN
NEPAL
BHUTAN
BANGLADESH
SRI LANKA
Terrorism Update
Latest
S.A.Overview
Publication
Show/Hide Search
 
    Click to Enlarge
   

Terrorism-related Incidents in Colombo - 2004

2004

No.

Date

Description

1

March 27

Sri Lanka's former Hindu Affairs Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for Jaffna, Thiyagarajah Maheswaran is shot at and seriously wounded by unidentified assailants in downtown Colombo.

2

July 25

Seven suspected cadres of the LTTE faction led by 'Colonel' Karuna and a Sinhalese person are shot dead at a house in Kottawa, 15 kms from Colombo.

3

July 31

An anti-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam intelligence operative, Kandiah Yogarasa alias `PLOTE Mohan' is shot dead on Duplication Road in Colombo city by suspected LTTE militants.

4

August 23

A former LTTE cadre, identified as R. Kugananthan, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Wellawatte, a largely Tamil suburb of Colombo.

5

September 23

Somasundaram Varnakulasingham, a central committee member of the EPDP, is shot dead at Vihara Lane in Wellawatte by suspected LTTE cadres.

6

October 25

A suspected cadre of the 'Colonel' Karuna faction killed and two others injured as unidentified gunmen open fire in Wellawatte.

7

November 4

A former member of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Velayutham Dayalakumar, is killed by suspected LTTE cadres at a Colombo suburb.

 

 

 

 

 

 
Copyright © 2001 SATP. All rights reserved.