What the records say
- When
- 27 Mar 2000 – 20 Apr 2000
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 7.00° N, 81.00° E
- Description
- 2000 battle of the Sri Lankan civil war
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle for the A-9 highway
2000 battle of the Sri Lankan civil war
The Battle for the A-9 highway was fought in March and April 2000 for the control of the Sri Lankan A-9 highway.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In the Spring of 2000, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) launched a series of successful offensives to retake strategic roads in the northern province”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
Part of
Nearby in time and place
- Bindunuwewa massacre25 Oct 2000 · Massacre · Deaths 27
- 2000 SLAF Mi-17 Crash16 Sep 2000 · Air disaster
- Kurunegala train crash19 Aug 2001 · Rail accident
- Mawanella Riots30 Apr 2001 · Riot · Deaths 2
- Катастрофа Ан-12 в Негомбо24 Mar 2000 · Air disaster
- Bandaranaike Airport attack: The Tamil Tigers bomb the Bandaranaike International Airport in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War24 Jul 2001 · Event
- President Chandrika Kumaratunga barely survives an assassination attempt by the LTTE in Colombo18 Dec 1999 · Event
- Tampalakamam massacre1 Feb 1998 · Massacre · Deaths 8