1992 in Sri Lanka
Incumbents
=Governors=
- Central Province – P. C. Imbulana
- North Central Province – E. L. Senanayake
- North Eastern Province – Nalin Seneviratne
- North Western Province – Montague Jayawickrama
- Sabaragamuwa Province – Noel Wimalasena
- Southern Province – Leslie Mervyn Jayaratne
- Uva Province – Abeyratne Pilapitiya
- Western Province – Suppiah Sharvananda
=Chief Ministers=
Events
- Sri Lankan Civil War
- Eelam War II
- 29 April – A series of attacks on civilians occur in the villages of Alanchipothana, Karapola, Madurangala and Muthugal in the eastern Polonnaruwa District, killing 157.{{cite web|title=Sri Lanka: Deliberate killings of Muslim and Tamil villagers in Polonnaruwa|url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=CBABB2C2398D0E9B802569A6006028CF|publisher=Amnesty International|access-date=2015-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222090212/http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=CBABB2C2398D0E9B802569A6006028CF|archive-date=2011-02-22|url-status=dead}}{{cite web| title = SRI LANKA:When will justice be done?| publisher = Amnesty International| date = 2007| url = http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=20111862A3924158802569A6006050A3| accessdate = 2007-07-19| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070714022250/http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=20111862A3924158802569A6006050A3| archive-date = 2007-07-14| url-status = dead}}{{cite web|title=Chapter 7 - MASSACRES IN THE POLONNARUWA DISTRICT|url=http://www.uthr.org/Reports/Report11/chapter7.htm|work=Report 11|publisher=University Teachers for Human Rights|access-date=2015-08-07|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190245/http://www.uthr.org/Reports/Report11/chapter7.htm|url-status=dead}}
- 9 August – Mylanthanai massacre: 35 Sri Lankan Tamils, including 14 children, are killed in the village of Mylanthanai in the Batticaloa District. The rest of the village's population is displaced, and to this day the town remains a ghost town.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/2515295.stm|title=Mylanthanai case|accessdate=2006-01-08 |work=BBC | date=November 26, 2002}}
Notes
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:a. {{note label|a|a|none}} 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}}
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