9 January – Tangalle murder and gang rape: The Colombo High Court issues an arrest warrant for United People's Freedom Alliance chairman of Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Sampath Chandra Pushpa Vidanapathirana after he fails to attend a bail hearing.[7][8]
22 January – The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Sri Lanka in Bremen rules that the Sri Lankan state is guilty of genocide against Eelam Tamils, saying that the Sri Lankan military conducted "a oordinated plan whose different components aim at the physical destruction’ of the Tamil people ‘in whole or in part.’"[27][28][29]
23 January
A 20-year-old Australian student is raped at Gendawana Rock near Ambalangoda.[30][31][32]
Four million illegally imported cigarettes worth Rs. 112 million is seized in Orugodawatte by customs officials.[33][34]
4 February – The Australian Public Interest Advocacy Centre publishes the Island of impunity? Investigation into international crimes in the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war report which claims that not only were the Sri Lankan military responsible for most of the alleged war crimes during the final months of the civil war but also that they systematically destroyed evidence war crimes.[45][46][47][48]
5 February – 29 people are injured after a bus veered off the road and toppled over at Dimbulapathana, Hatton.[49][50]
10 February – The body of missing University of Peradeniya student Dikovita Kankanamlage Nishantha is found in bushes near student accommodation.[53][54]
11 February – Five people are killed after a van collides with a stationary tipper truck on the A9 between Mankulam and Kilinochchi.[55][56]
12 February – Sri Lanka drops two places to 165 out of 180 in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index.[57][58]
21 February – Impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake: The Supreme Court over turns the Court of Appeal decision in January 2013 to quash the Parliamentary Select Committee's findings, saying that the Court of Appeal had no jurisdiction over Parliament.[61][62]
British citizen Visvalingam Gobithas, who was convicted in 2012 of supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam after being detained since 2007 without charge, dies in Welikada Prison in what his family describe as suspicious circumstances.[66][67]
7 March – Customs officials in Colombo seize 36 kilograms (79 lb) of heroin, worth about Rs.360 million, at the Rank Container Terminal in Orugodawatte.[74][75]
S. Sathiyasudhan and his young son S. Dinoyan from Sundurampuram are killed after being hit by an express train travelling from Pallai to Colombo as they crossed at a level crossing near Puliyankulam.[78][79]
9 March –
UK broadcaster Channel 4 airs more video which it claims shows Sinhala-speaking soldiers belonging to special forces "laughing and cheering, as they celebrate the deaths of the Tiger fighters and perform acts of grotesque sexual violation on the bodies".[80][81][82]
Four people are killed and two injured in Kataragama after a man stabs several members of his family before setting the house on fire.[83][84]
Two police officers attempt to rape a 27-year-old German tourist at Ella, Badulla District.[88][89]
Kilinochchi magistrates order human rights defender Jeyakumari Balendran to be detained for 16 days under anti-terrorism law and her daughter Vithushaini is placed in care.[90][91][92]
15 March
The second phase of the Southern Expressway, between Pinnaduwa (Galle) to Godagama (Matara), is officially opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.[93][94]
Dulsan Amalan, a former pupil of St. Patrick's College, Jaffna, is killed during clashes between rival supporters during the annual big match between St. Patrick's College and Jaffna College at the Jaffna College's ground in Vaddukoddai.[95][96]
16 March
Human rights defenders Ruki Fernando and Father Praveen Mahesan are arrested in Kilinochchi under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act on suspicion of "inciting racial or religious hatred or disharmony, or violence between ethnic groups".[97][98][99]
Residents of Hanwella protest against contamination of ground water by the Hanwella Rubber Products factory, resulting in violent clashes with the police which lead to the death of Chief Inspector Prasad Siriwardhana, the Officer In Charge of Borella.[100][101]
17 March – Indian broadcaster NewsX airs video which allegedly shows a Sri Lankan soldier claiming that the Sri Lankan military used chemical weapons on civilians.[102][103]
18 March
Human rights defenders Ruki Fernando and Father Praveen Mahesan are released by the Terrorist Investigation Division following widespread international condemnation.[104][105][106][107]
20 March – The Sri Lankan government bans 15 Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora groups, including the BTF, CTC, GTFTGTE and TYO, and 424 individuals as terrorists.[116][117][118]
21 March – A 23-year-old German student is raped at her home in Bambalapitiya.[119][120]
23 March – A 22-year-old Swedish tourist is raped at a hotel in Pelana, Weligama by the former United People's Freedom Alliance chairman of Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Dikkumburage Kulaweera.[121][122]
The United Nations Human Rights Council votes by 23 to 12 to pass resolution 25/1 authorising an international investigation into alleged war crimes during the 2002-09 period, despite opposition from the Sri Lankan government.[125][126][127][128][129]
The Kandy High Court sentences ten people to death for the murder of an autorickshaw driver in Nagala, Rattota on 8 April 2004.[130][131]
28 March
President Rajapaksa orders the release of all Indian fisherman detained for fishing illegally in Sri Lankan waters, as gratitude for India abstaining during the UNHRC vote.[132][133][134]
Three people are killed and nine injured following a head-on collision between a bus and a tipper truck on the Colombo–Kandy road in Tholangamuwa near Warakapola.[135][136]
A group of twenty Buddhist monks disrupt and break up a US-funded seminar for journalists in Polonnaruwa.[137]
2 April – 14 people including Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the leader of the Bodu Bala Sena, charged with attacking the Cavalry Church in Thalahena, Malabe in 2008 are acquitted by Colombo High Court.[140][141]
18 April – Ten people are killed when the tractor they were travelling on topples into the ZD canal in Aluthoya, Aralaganwila, Polonnaruwa District.[162][163]
19 April – Five people are killed when the van they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into Detagamuwa tank in Kataragama.[164][165]
21 April – British tourist Naomi Coleman is arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport and threatened with deportation because she had hurt "others' religious feelings" by having a tattoo of Buddha on her arm.[166][167]
24 April – Parliament passes the controversial Strategic Development Project Act Gazette No. 01 (extraordinary gazette no. 1847/35) which gives approval for Dhammika Perera's $300 million 500 room Queensbury Resort (The Queensbury Leisure Limited) at D. R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo, an "Integrated Super Luxury Tourist Resort" with "associated facilities"" which opponents claim includes casinos.[170][171][172]
25 April – Parliament passes the controversial Strategic Development Project Act Gazette No. 02 (extraordinary gazette no. 1847/36) and Strategic Development Project Act Gazette No. 03 (extraordinary gazette no. 1847/37) which give approval for John Keells Holdings' $650 million Water Front Resort (Waterfront Properties (Private) Limited) at Glennie Street/Justice Akbar Mawatha, Colombo and Kerry Packer's $350 million 400 room Crown Resort (Lake Leisure Holdings (Private) Limited) at D. R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo respectively, two "Integrated Super Luxury Tourist Resorts" with "associated facilities"" which opponents claim includes casinos.[173][174][175][176]
28 April – Seven people are sentenced to death by the Nuwara Eliya High Court for the 1994 murder of R. M. Sumanadasa in Nildandahinna.[177][178]
30 April – A head-on collision between two trains on the Northern Line at Pothuhera injures 68 people.[179][180]
May
4 May – Three members of the same family are hacked to death and two others injured in Achchuveli.[181][182]
Police officer Chandana Sampath is shot dead and his colleague Ajith Weerasuriya is injured after being abducted near Kurunegala.[185][186]
7 May – Three new Supreme Court judges - Sisira J. De Abrew, Sarath De Abrew and controversially Priyantha Jayawardena - are sworn in before President Rajapaksa at Temple Trees.[187][188]
8 May
Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella says the government won't oppose a casino in James Packer's Crown Resort, contrary to what the government and President Rajapaksa had said previously.[189][190]
Colombo High Court sentences former Deputy Commissioner of Inland Revenue Gnanasiri de Soyza Jayathilake to 102 years rigorous imprisonment to be spent in three years and fines him Rs.12 billion for committing Rs. 4 billion VAT fraud.[191][192]
9 May
A Muslim owned supermarket in Aluthgama is attacked and burnt down by a mob led by Buddhist monks.[193][194]
18-year-old Sandun Malinga, who had been arrested on 7 May for treasure hunting in Bogahalanda forest reserve, dies after being assaulted by police officers from Kandeketiya Police Station.[195][196][197]
12 May – Peliyagoda Urban Council member Chamila Sandaruwan is shot dead in Kelaniya.[198][199]
The main suspect in the shooting of a police officer in Kurunegala on 6 May is shot dead by the police whilst in their custody.[210][211]
22 May – A Transparency International workshop at the Deer Park Hotel, Giritale, Polonnaruwa District for Tamil speaking journalists is abandoned following threats and intimidation from the Sri Lankan military.[212][213]
30 May – Police officer Suminda Saman, who had issued a fine on Deputy Minister Hemal Gunasekara on 20 May for speeding on the Southern Expressway, is attacked in Dodamgoda near Kalutara by a group of goons associated with Gunasekara.[218][219][220][221]
June
2 June – Students at the University of Ruhuna campus in Matara are attacked by a mob of government supporters led allegedly by Deputy Minister and former international cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya.[222][223][224]
3 June – At least 22 people are killed and over 27,000 displaced due to floods and landslides in south western Sri Lanka over the last few days.[225][226]
4 June – Bus conductor Prabhath Chandana is shot dead in Tangalle by two unidentified men on a motor cycle.[227][228]
7 June – A Transparency International workshop at the Goldie Sands Hotel, Negombo for Tamil speaking journalists is abandoned following threats and intimidation by a group of "protesters".[229][230]
8 June – Journalists from the abandoned Transparency International in Negombo are forced to leave the Galadari Hotel, Colombo following threatening calls.[231]
A drunk police officer shoots dead motorcyclist Subash Indika at Pasyala, Gampaha District.[234][235][236]
12 June – A Sinhalese mob attack Muslim shops in Aluthgama following an alleged attack on a Buddhist monk.[237][238]
16 June – Anti-Muslim riots: At least three people are killed and 80 injured in riots in Kalutara District.[239][240] A fourth person is killed in Welipenna.[241][242]
19 June
Moderate Buddhist monk Watareka Vijitha, who had threatened by the Bodu Bala Sena, is abducted and assaulted in the Bandaragama area.[243][244][245][246]
Anti-Muslim riots: Muslim businesses across the country stage a hartal on as protest against the riots.[247][248][249]
20 June – The Kamaal Mosque in Navanthurai, Jaffna District is attacked by unidentified persons.[250][251]
21 June – The Muslim owned No-Limit clothing store in Panadura is destroyed by fire in the early hours, causing Rs.400 million in damage.[252][253][254][255]
October
24 October – The Sri Lankan parliament pass a law banning land purchases by foreigners. The new act will allow foreigners to acquire land only on a lease basis of up to 99 years with an annual 15 percent tax on the total rental paid upfront.[256][257]
29 October – a 3 km long landslide in Badulla kills at least 16 and leaves 200 missing.
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