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Ranwala was employed at the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), working at the Sapugaskanda Refinery.As a trade unionist in the JVP-affiliated Ceylon Petroleum Common Workers' Union, he was the convener of the Trade Union Collective for Conservation of Fuel Resources, leading protests against the state-owned CPC losing its monopoly to the Indian state-owned Lanka IOC in 2002. [2]
The list of parties to the Biological Weapons Convention encompasses the states which have signed and ratified or acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), a multilateral treaty outlawing biological weapons. On 10 April 1972, the BWC was opened for signature.
Treaties concluded or ratified by Sri Lanka. Where appropriate, articles should be placed in the subcategories. Where appropriate, articles should be placed in the subcategories. This category may contain articles about treaties concluded or ratified by Sri Lanka since 22 May 1972, which is the date on which the Dominion of Ceylon became the ...
The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), also known as the Eelam Revolutionary Organisers, is a former Tamil militant group in Sri Lanka. Most of the EROS membership was absorbed into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1990. The other half of EROS that did not join forces with the LTTE due was led by PLO trained ...
The 1989 Valvettiturai massacre occurred on 2 and 3 August 1989 in the small coastal town of Valvettiturai, on the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka. Sixty-four Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were killed by soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force. The massacre followed an attack on the soldiers by rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres. The ...
During the civil war, the Mullaitivu District was hotly contested between the Sri Lankan government and Tamils. The army had evicted Indian Tamil residents of the Kent and Dollar farms and settled Sinhalese there. A day before the Kokkilai massacre, the LTTE massacred the Sinhalese on the farms. However, unlike the farms, Sinhalese residents of ...
A biological hazard, or biohazard, is a biological substance that poses a threat (or is a hazard) to the health of living organisms, primarily humans. This could include a sample of a microorganism, virus or toxin that can adversely affect human health. A biohazard could also be a substance harmful to other living beings. [a]
On 03.12.1984, Sri Lankan military rounded up Manal Aru area and fired randomly at the civilians. Civilians from Manal Aru were chased away by the Sri Lankan military and their houses were set on fire. People who have lived in the villages for generations were thus displaced.