1989 in Sri Lanka

Decades:	; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s;
See also:	Other events of 1989; Timeline of Sri Lankan history;

The following lists events that happened during 1989 in Sri Lanka.

Incumbents

President: J. R. Jayewardene (until 2 January); Ranasinghe Premadasa (starting 2 January)
Prime Minister: Ranasinghe Premadasa (until 2 January); Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (starting 2 January)
Chief Justice: Parinda Ranasinghe

Governors

Governor of Central Province: E. L. B. Hurulle
Governor of North Central Province: Dingiri Bandara Welagedara (until May); E. L. Senanayake (starting May)
Governor of North Eastern Province: Nalin Seneviratne (until 31 January); Montague Jayawickrama (starting 1 February)
Governor of North Western Province: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Governor of Sabaragamuwa: Noel Wimalasena
Governor of Southern Province: Abdul Bakeer Markar
Governor of Uva: P. C. Imbulana (starting May)
Governor of Western Province: Suppiah Sharvananda

Chief Ministers

Events

Sri Lankan Civil War
- Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War
1987–1989 JVP insurrection^[1]
15 February – 1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election: Sri Lanka holds their 9th parliamentary elections, with the ruling United National Party winning with a total of 125 seats.

Notes

a. ^{^} Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). Pg.353, Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security, Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research. ISBN 955-8093-00-9

References

^ Owen Bennet (October 2013). "The Patriotic Struggle of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna: A Reappraisal" (PDF). Owen Bennet. Retrieved 12 August 2015.

"Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-23.

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[JVP-1] Owen Bennet (October 2013). "The Patriotic Struggle of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna: A Reappraisal" (PDF). Owen Bennet. Retrieved 12 August 2015.

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