Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
1410-1411 - Shipwreck. South China Morning Post. 4 Nov 2017. Stephen Chen. Hunt for the Ming dynasty Admiral Zheng He, lost treasure ship. Indian ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka. A massive vessel sank 600 years ago. Treasure ship with gold, gems and artefacts sank to the bottom of the ocean. A fleet of Chinese Admiral Zheng He. Chinese treasure ships.
1708 - G+. al Jazeera. 11 April 2017. The story of Hendala leprosy hospital, built in 1708. Sri Lanka's oldest leprosy hospital.
13 Nov 1781 – British troops occupied Negapatam Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 13 Nov 2015).
1820-40 – Surviving archives, the national register of archives database. Documented a large number of slaves, on illegal vessels, many of the slaves were children. Ceylon tea plantation graves. (Who do you think you are. Sept 2013. UK. p32).
1890 - Thomas Lipton from Glasgow. Lipton went to Ceylon Sri Lanka. Scotsman James Taylor from Kincardinesha. Tea plantations in Ceylon, London Tea. Ceylon estates, tea was grown, gathered, shipped and packed under Liptons control, Lipton yellow label. (Who do you think you are mag. June 2016).
July 1916 - The Diary of Australian soldier William Barry in Sri Lanka, Egypt and France. A POW in the battle of Fromelles in July 1916. POW Madan Akhan, a Hindu officer from India and Ronald Ondatji from Sri Lanka. (History today. Dec 2015).
1924-49 - CL Pujitha. Gunawardana. Colombo. Nugegoda Sri Lanka. Permua 1990.
1925 - Telegraph cables were laid under oceans. The British tapped and monitored the cables from the mid 1920s. Govt code and cypher school. Cable and wireless company, cables monitored. Edward Tavis intercepts in New Zealand and Canada. Codebreakers. Cypher base at HMS Anderson in Colombo Sri Lanka. Y services for wireless, morse code, encrypted telegraph. (Sinclair McKay. The spies of winter 2016).
1945 - Hugh Alexander spent two months at the codebreaking center in Colombo Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon. Bamboo roof cryptological. (Sinclair McKay. The spies of winter 2016).
Sept 1945 - Japanese bombing attack on the base of HMS Anderson in Colombo Ceylon/Sri Lanka. HMS Anderson was still in Burma after the Japanese Sept 1945 attack, huts, palm roofs. Tall radio transmitters, British wren Jean Valentine. Breaking Japanese codes. Tea plantations, teleprinters. Laurence Roberts. Microwave transmitters. Clive Rooke. Codebreakers went to Burma/Myanmar. 1947 as India got Independence. (Sinclair McKay. The spies of winter. 2016).
10 February 1948 – The opening of Sri Lanka’s first parliament, six days after independence from the UK. Sri Lanka was then called Ceylon. Sri Lanka since 1972. (Empires children. ©2009 Anton Gill).
Late 1950s - Late 1945 Commander Travis, second deputy capt Edward Hastings. India intel. Listening station, interception, intel radio wireless operators. Morse code. Late 1950s Alan Sillitoe. Fuel rationing during the British winter. Sillitoe was in Colombo Sri Lanka. HMS Anderson, 18 years old, Malaya rubber trees, earphones, jungle. Intercepting messages, morse code. Rangoon, Singapore, Saigon Vietnam, Karachi Pakistan, Hong Kong and Bangkok Thailand, transmitters. (Sinclair McKay. The spies of winter. 2016).
Dec 1956 – GCHQ was just opening a large secret SIGINT station covering the Indian ocean. At Perkar in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), worth 2 billion pounds. Ceylon PM was Solomon Bandaranaike. It was a vast aerial farm covering more than 400 acres. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).
1981 – Sinhalese burned the Tamil library of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. Destroying one of south Asia's great repositries of culture and history. Manuscripts, palm leaf scrolls and books. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).
1983-2009 – The UN asked the Sri Lankan government to act on missing people. Disappearances from the civil war, the government and LTTE. More than 16,000 missing people. Reuters. 19 Nov 2015.
6 Oct 1989 - Death squads beheaded 18 people in Sri Lankan massacre. Globe and mail. Toronto Canada. Global issues in context.
31 January 1996 – Tamil Tigers attacked members of the Liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE, rammed an explosives laden truck into the central bank in Colombo Sri Lanka, killing 90 civilians and injuring more than 1,400 others, including 2 US citizens.
1998 – Sri Lankan New Year plate. (Trade me NZ. Antiques cultural ethnic. 7 April 2016. Auckland $10).
26 Dec 2004 – A 9.2 earthquake and tsunami. (Zee news. 11 Sept 2014).
12 August 2005 – In Colombo, suspected Tamil Tigers assassinated the Sri Lankan foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar.
Late 2006 – Wikipedia. List of people who disappeared mysteriously. Thiruchzlvam Nihl Jim Brown age 34. A Sri Lankan Tamil Catholic priest. Motorbike in Allaipiddy. Armed men, a forced disappearance.
4 August 2006 – Battle rages between Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government. At least 22,000 people have been displaced. 10 civilians were killed by an artillery shell. Monitors are leaving and residents are being shelled on both sides. BBC TV
8 August 2006 – Car bomb kills 2 in Sri Lanka Colombo by Anjana Pasricha New Delhi India. VOA.
10 August 2006 – Heavy fighting and many people displaced. VOA. Patricia Nunan. New Delhi India.
12 August 2006 – Sri Lankan peace coordinator assassinated. VOA. AP. AFP. Reuters.
11 September 2006 – Bomb hidden with dead body explodes in Sri Lanka 6 wounded.
17 September 2006 – Claymore explosion injures 4 in Thampalakamam.
9 October 2006 – Tamil party warns of all out war if the government troops attack rebel territory.
12 October 2006 – Vehicle bomb kills three in Sri Lanka, bomb exploded inside a passenger van in northern Sri Lanka killing the driver and two others.
18 October 2006 – 100 Sri Lankan navy sailors killed in largest Tamil rebel attack since 2002. A suicide bombing on a navy convoy in north central Sri Lanka.
9 November 2006 – Suspected Sri Lankan rebels kill a security guard in a raid, military finds powerful bomb.
15 November 2006 – Sri Lankan military suspected rebel bomb killing soldier.
19 November 2006 – Bomb blast and gunfire kill 8 in N Sri Lanka.
27 November 2006 – Major attack in Colombo recovered seven Claymore mines and 10kg explosives, reportedly from the suburbs of Colombo. A suspected suicide bomber was also taken into custody by the army. A parcel containing high explosives was found near an air base.
15 Dec 2006 – Wikipedia. A list of people who disappeared mysteriously. Sivasubramaniam Raveendranath age 55. Sri Lankan Tamil. Attending a conference in Colombo.
4 February 2007 – Possible links between LTTE and al Qaeda. Merchant commercial shipping links. Military balance 2007 IISS. Sunday Times UK. ©2006 Sri Lankan army.
21 February 2007 – Two separate bomb blasts in Sri Lanka killed 3 people and wounded 19. The first bomb was attached to a parked bike in the town of Oddamavadi killed two police officers and two civilians. The second attack was in Jaffna when a hand grenade was thrown at a passing military convoy, missing, but exploded near a school injuring 5 people. (Stratfor intel summary).
27 February 2007 – Sri Lanka. US ambassador slightly injured in attack on his helicopter AP. CNN.
2000 – Sex slavery. Trafficking in Sri Lankan women to the Middle East by Chandanie Watawala. Modern slavery Sri Lanka has the second highest number of disappearances in the world, second only to Iraq.
November 2010 – Sri Lanka legalized gambling in November 2010. AFP. TTR. weekly.
17 Jan 2011 – Jon Lee Anderson. Death of the tiger. Sri Lanka's brutal cruelty over its Tamil insurgents. The New Yorker.
17 March 2011 – International paedophile ring. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3473266/Worlds-biggest-paedophile-ring-smashed.html
17 April 2011 – Sri Lanka committed war crimes, says UN. The Independent UK.
26 November 2012 – Catholic Brother on sex charges, flees to Sri Lanka. Bernard Kevin McGrath aged 65 on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka wanted by Australia for sex crimes, rape and molesting young children. New Zealand Newswire. Yahoo news.
4 December 2012 – Sri Lankas in new challenge to boat regime. Rick Morton and Sid Maher'. The Australian immigration and boat people.
17 July 2013 – Sri Lanka gambling hot spot TTR weekly Colombo. AFP. Sri Lanka legalized gambling in November 2010.
6 September 2013 – Sri Lanka rolls the dice on mega casinos. Financial times by James Crabtree in Colombo
12 September 2013 – Sri Lanka to approve setting up of foreign funded casinos. IBN live. Press trust of India.
13 September 2013 – Sri Lanka approves two casinos. Colombo Australian James Packer. AFP. TTR weekly.
13 September 2013 – Australian James Packer wins casino deal in Sri Lanka. AFP
19 Oct 2013 – Crown confirms discussions with Sri Lankan govt casinos. Colin Kruger. The Canberra Times ACT. James Packers casino operation Crown ltd.
6 June 2014 – Don’t come down to milk Mafia. Sri Lanka Daily mirror. Powdered milk Mafia.
5 July 2014 – Scoop.co.nz. Tribunal to end killings at police stations. Asian human rights community says. Recent killings at police stations in Sri Lanka
8 July 2014 – TVNZ One news. Return of asylum seekers to Sri Lanka blocked. 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka. 32 women and 37 children to Australia. Judge Susan Crennan.
10 July 2014 – Human trafficking ring suspected. 3 news NZ. Asylum seekers were trying to get to New Zealand. Australian boat people.
18 July 2014 – Lanka web. Missing persons commission, an international panel to investigate war crimes.
29 Aug 2014 – Sir Lanka supports move to investigate war the missing. IRIN news Laithweeratunga missing persons.
17 Sept 2014 – Sri Lanka and China sign agreement for cooperation. Daily news Colombo. Socialist republic of Sri Lanka and peoples republic of China.
30 Sept 2014 – How the JVP seized power in the universities. Daily news Colombo. Socialist students union SSU was founded on 16 Nov 1964.
16 Oct 2014 – Sri Lanka’s grand tourism plan. Yahoo Maktoob news. The beach resort of Negombo is a paedophile haven, where hotels turn a blind eye to European paedophiles.
21 Oct 2014 – Sri Lanka opposition unions demand pay increase. Yahoo news. Colombo AP. Trade unions protest. Gulf.
30 Oct 2014 – Sri Lanka landslide 10 dead and more than 150 missing at Koslanda. The Independent UK. Tea plantation, a monsoon triggered the mudslide and buried workers and their homes.
30 Oct 2014 – PM expresses grief at loss of life in Sri Lankan landslide. United news of India. New Delhi. 200 people are missing after a massive landslide at tea plantations, workers
30 Oct 2014 – Sri Lanka, dozens trapped in landslide. EFE news service. Search for 192 people still missing after a landslide in the south, 6 bodies were recovered.
21 Dec 2014 – OpDeathEaters on Twitter. The mass graves of murderd, abused children have been uncovered in Canada, the US, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Slovenia and Ireland.
29 Jan 2015 – Australia detains 157 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers. Held at the high seas for a month last year. Economic Times. Daily Times.
28 Feb 2015 – Sri Lankan police question a naval officer over missing people. Outlook. TamilNet. Disappearances of several people during the war with LTTE.
4 Nov 2015 – Sri Lakan icon of colonialism 17th century Dutch in Jaffna. NDTV.
19 Nov 2015 – The UN asks the Sri Lankan government to act on missing people. Disappearances from the 1983 to 2009 civil war. The government and LTTE, there are more than 16,000 missing people. Reuters.
25 May 2016 – BBC UK. Sri Lankan missing persons, disappeared. Thousands of people are still missing 7 years after the Tamil Tigers war. Missing people from the Tamil conflict. India Today. The Wire. Daily Mail. 20,000 war missing from the Tamil conflict.
6 June 2016 – VOA. A soldier was killed in an arms depot blast.
8 June 2016 – 65,000 people who went missing during the civil war as dead. First Post. Colombo Sri Lanka. People are still missing, seven years after the civil war ended. The Sri Lankan govt is giving certificates for the missing. Washington Post. Economy Next.
3 July 2016 – 100 Tamil refugees on a ferry headed for New Zealand. Trafficking. The Indian coast guard stopped them. Stuff.co.nz
31 Jan 2017 - Six New Zealanders were hurt in a Sri Lankan accident. Colombo car crash. Stuff NZ.
30 March 2017 - Police.govt.nz. Zombie Democracy. 2 April 2017. A Sri Lankan man was killed in a car crash on 30 March 2017. In South Waikato New Zealand. 56 year old Gamini Vithanage.
15 April 2017 - NZ Herald. A rubbish dump collapse killed 10 people in Sri Lanka.
16 April 2017 - Guardian UK. Hundreds of people feared buried in Sri Lankan rubbish dump landslide. Colombo emergency. Search for missing people. 19 bodies found.
3 May 2017 - Natural news. Sri Lanka massive avalanche. Sri Lankan garbage pile collapse.
28 May 2017 - Brass tack. Hard real news. G+. Sri Lanka seeks international help after deadly flooding landslides. Reuters.
28 May 2017 - G+. Brass tack. Hard real news. Sri Lankan floods. 500,000 people displaced. Death toll rises. BBC UK.
29 May 2017 - Floods in Sri Lanka displace half a million people. New York times. Floods, mudslides. More than 150 people are reported dead. The worst torrential rains since 2003.
31 May 2017 - G+. Griffin Walker. Landslides in Sri Lanka kill 180 people and more than 100 people are missing. 75,000 people are displaced. The Big wobble.
6 July 2017 - G+. Griffin Walker. Health alert as Sri Lankas worst dengue outbreak kills 225 people and infects more than 76,000 people in 2017. Video. Strange sounds.org.
11 Aug 2017 - The Sri Lankan foreign minister resigns over corruption charge. Reuters. Lanka business online.
19 Oct 2017 - Bright fireball, sonic boon over Sri Lanka. Griffin Walker. G+. A Bright fireball and sonic boom was reported over Sri Lanka. The Watchers.
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