• The Colombo World Trade Centre Bombing was a terrorist attack which occurred on 15 October 1997 and was carried out by the LTTE during the separatist...
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    structures List of world trade centers 1997 Colombo World Trade Centre bombing "World Trade Center". ORCL.lk. Retrieved 8 June 2017. "World Trade Center". Emporis...
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  • The Colombo central bus station bombing was the car bombing of the central bus terminal of Colombo carried out on April 21, 1987, in Pettah, Colombo, Sri...
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  • On 31 January 1996, the LTTE's Black Tigers carried out the Colombo Central Bank bombing that killed 100 people and injured 1400 others. The LTTE was...
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    Institution, the Colombo metropolitan area has a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 in the Municipality. It is the financial centre of the island and...
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  • Daily News "1986: Bomb kills 21 in Sri Lanka". BBC. 3 May 1986. Retrieved 30 April 2008. The Assassination Of Ranjan Wijeratne, Colombo Telegraph "Religious...
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    infrastructure, rather than purely military targets. Strategic bombing often involved bombing areas inhabited by civilians, and some campaigns were deliberately...
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  • destruction, Daily News "1986: Bomb kills 21 in Sri Lanka". BBC. 3 May 1986. Retrieved 25 May 2015. "Commercial Airline Bombing History". aerospaceweb.org...
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  • JOC Bombing: 12 killed and 85 civilians injured after a suicide bombing outside the Joint Operations Command (JOC) building on Flower Road, Colombo 7....
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    Sri Lanka (section Trade)
    the Commonwealth, the SAARC, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, and the Colombo Plan. The United National Party...
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    securities. The headquarters of the CSE has been located at the World Trade Center Towers [6] in Colombo since 1995 and it also has branches across the country...
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    Overseas Realty (category Companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange)
    the proprietor of World Trade Center Colombo and Havelock City. The company was incorporated in 1980 and was listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 1982...
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    Douglas Devananda (category Alumni of Colombo Hindu College)
    before moving to Colombo in 1974. He lived with his paternal uncle K. C. Nythiananda at 17 Francis Road in Colombo 06 and studied at Colombo Hindu College...
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  • Sea Tigers (category Suicide bombing)
    the coast near Colombo, two frogmen belonging to the Sea Tigers were captured by Sri Lanka's army while trying to bomb ships in Colombo Port. News images...
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    prison break 1986 Colombo Telegraph office bombing 1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament 1988 Kathireshan Hindu temple bombing 1989 Temple of...
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    the US government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Philips was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to high school teachers...
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    suicide bomb attacks at the Central Bank in Colombo, killing 90 and injuring 1,400. In October 1997 it bombed the Sri Lankan World Trade Centre and, in...
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    Y-8s and would later use them for bombing, until 1992 when one Y-8 crashed during a bombing mission, when all bombing using transport aircraft were stopped...
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    move to Willis Tower". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2 May 2014. "See One World Trade Center by skyscrapercenter.com". Retrieved 3 July 2020. Photo of Молдавская...
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    Sunday attacks". ColomboPage News Desk. Retrieved 4 March 2021. "Sri Lanka ex-president Sirisena ordered to compensate 2019 Easter bombing victims". the...
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    (ACCT), ASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, United Nations Economic...
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    merchants took over the lucrative trade of elephants from the interior and monopolised the import of goods from Colombo and India, disfranchising the local...
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    experiences from World War I to draw up plans for how to handle a new war. The main concerns included air raids and the subsequent bombing of the Exchange's...
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    re-appeared, and with the consent of the Sinhalese King established a trading post in Colombo. Having initiated contact with Sri Lanka as traders, the Portuguese...
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    damaged briefly by the American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in May 1999. Clinton apologized for the bombing, stating it was accidental. On...
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    sides in the strategic bombings of World War II. They caused firestorms and conflagrations in the bombing of Dresden in World War II and the firebombing...
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    existing base at Colombo in Ceylon became threatened by the Japanese. The Far East Combined Bureau, an outpost of the British codebreaking centre at Bletchley...
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    injured. The church bombings were carried out during Easter services in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo; the hotels that were bombed were the Shangri-La...
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    important commercial centres in the world. After the failure of the Spanish Armada in 1588, there was a huge expansion of maritime trade even though the defeat...
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  • Bonner stated the FBI attributed the bombing and two others to the JDL. In February 1986, the FBI classified the bombing that killed Alex Odeh as a terrorist...
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