title: 1993 in Sri Lanka
text: # 1993 in Sri Lanka
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1993 in Sri Lanka.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Ranasinghe Premadasa (until 1 May); Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (starting 1 May)
  * Prime Minister: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (until 7 May); Ranil Wickremesinghe (starting 7 May)
  * Chief Justice: G. P. S. de Silva
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Central Province – P. C. Imbulana (until May); E. L. Senanayake (starting May)
  * North Central Province – E. L. Senanayake
  * North Eastern Province – Nalin Seneviratne (until 30 November); Lionel Fernando (starting 30 November)
  * North Western Province – Montague Jayawickrama (until 13 October); Karunasena Kodituwakku (starting 13 October)
  * Sabaragamuwa Province – Noel Wimalasena (until 1993); C. N. Saliya Mathew (starting 1993)
  * Southern Province – Abdul Bakeer Markar (until December); Leslie Mervyn Jayaratne (starting December)
  * Uva Province – Tilak Ratnayake (until March); Abeyratne Pilapitiya (starting March)
  * Western Province – Suppiah Sharvananda
  
  ### Chief Ministers
  
  * Central Province – W. M. P. B. Dissanayake
  * North Central Province – G. D. Mahindasoma
  * North Western Province – Gamini Jayawickrama Perera (until 19 October); G. M. Premachandra (starting 19 October)
  * Sabaragamuwa Province – Abeyratne Pilapitiya (until March); Jayatilake Podinilame (starting March)
  * Southern Province – M. S. Amarasiri (until October); Amarasiri Dodangoda (starting October)
  * Uva Province – Percy Samaraweera
  * Western Province – Susil Moonesinghe (until 16 March); Chandrika Kumaratunga (starting 21 May)
  
  ## Events
  
  * Lalith Athulathmudali, the former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and Deputy Minister of Defence of Sri Lanka was killed at 8:10 p.m. Sri Lanka Time (2.10 p.m. UTC) on 23 April 1993 in Kirulapana.
  * The Jaffna lagoon massacre occurred on January 2, 1993, when a Sri Lankan Navy Motor Gun Boat and a number of smaller speed boats intercepted a number of boats transporting people between the south and north shores of the Jaffna Lagoon in the Northern province in Sri Lanka, and attacked them under the glare of a spot light. Roughly 100 civilians and militants were killed.
  * The Battle of Pooneryn was a battle fought on 11 November 1993 for the town of Pooneryn.
  * Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated on 1 May 1993, during a May day rally, by an LTTE suicide bomber. Little more than a week before, Lalith Athulathmudali had also been assassinated.
  