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Events from the year 2012 in Sri Lanka. Incumbents President – Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister – D. M. Jayaratne Chief Justice – Shirani BandaranayakeGovernors Central Province – Tikiri Kobbekaduwa Eastern Province – Mohan Wijewickrama North Central Province – Karunarathna Divulgane Northern Province – G. A. Chandrasiri North Western Province – Tissa Balalla Sabaragamuwa Province – W. J. M. Lokubandara Southern Province – Kumari Balasuriya Uva Province – Nanda Mathew Western Province – Alavi MoulanaChief Ministers Central Province – Sarath Ekanayake Eastern Province – Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan (until 18 September); M. N. Abdul Majeed (starting 18 September) North Central Province – Berty Premalal Dissanayake (until 24 September); S. M. Ranjith (starting 24 September) North Western Province – Athula Wijesinghe Sabaragamuwa Province – Maheepala Herath Southern Province – Shan Wijayalal De Silva Uva Province – Shasheendra Rajapaksa Western Province – Prasanna RanatungaEvents January to March 6 January – Tangalle murder and gang rape: Five men, including Sampath Chandra Pushpa Vidanapathirana, the United People's Freedom Alliance chairman of Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha, are remanded until 20 January. 20 January – Tangalle murder and gang rape: Five suspects, including Sampath Chandra Pushpa Vidanapathirana, the United People's Freedom Alliance chairman of Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha, are remanded until 3 February. 24 January – 31 are injured during riots at the Magazine Prison (near Welikada Prison), Colombo. 31 January – Kahawatte murders: P. Nayana Nilmini and her daughter Kavindhya Chathurangi Sellahewa killed in their home in Kahawatta. 21 February – Tangalle High Court sentences Buddhist monk Gomadiye Sarana and Makumburage Wijesiri to death for stabbing Makumburage Dharmadasa on 10 January 2000. 24 February – A government report claims that 7,934 people (excluding security forces) were killed in the Northern Province during the final phase (January to May 2009) of the civil war, a departure from the government's previous claim of "zero civilian casualties". 14 March – Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. 16 March – Thieves steal ancient coins, rings, swords and other historic artefacts from the National Museum of Colombo. 20 March – Monks Pitigala Jinasiri and Borelasgamuwe Gunarathana stabbed to death at Kotte Raja Maha Viharaya. 22 March – The United Nations Human Rights Council votes by 24 to 14 to pass resolution 19/2 on Sri Lanka despite opposition from the Sri Lankan government. 23 March – Government minister Mervyn Silva threatens to "break the limbs" of some journalists and human rights workers whom he labelled "traitors".April to June 6 April Australian Premakumar Gunaratnam is abducted from his home in Kiribathgoda, just days before he was due to launch the Frontline Socialist Party, a breakaway faction of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Dimuthu Attygalle is abducted from a suburb of Colombo. 9 April – Premakumar Gunaratnam walks into the Colombo Crimes Division, Dematagoda, claiming he had been kidnapped. 10 April Dimuthu Attygalle appears at a Front Line Socialist Party press conference in Madiwela, claiming she had been abducted and interrogated by the police. Premakumar Gunaratnam is deported to Australia. 18 April – Easwarathasan Ketheeswaran, a refugee who had been sent back to Sri Lank from the UK, is killed at Iyankerni, Trincomalee. 20 April – Around 2,000 Buddhist protesters, including monks, try to storm a mosque in Dambulla. 22 April – Government orders the removal of the mosque in Dambulla. 26 April – Muslims in eastern Sri Lanka strike over threats to a mosque in Dambulla. 3 May Canadian Anthonypillai Mahendrarajah (Andrew Mahendrarajah Antonipillai) is hacked to death in Kaagnchipuram Lane, Paranthan. Diamonds, gold rings and other jewellery worth millions of dollars stolen in Greece by Janaka Weerasinghe (alias Upul Ranga Perera) and shipped to Colombo is seized by Sri Lanka Customs. 21 May – Former presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka is released from prison after receiving a conditional pardon from his opponent President Mahinda Rajapaksa but is barred from contesting or voting at elections for seven years. 30 May – Kahawatte murders: Sisters Hethuge Dayawathi and Hethuge Thilakwathi burnt to death in their house in Warapitiya, Kahawatta. 6 June – Stuart Cosgrove, a senior executive at Channel 4, and his wife Shirani Sabaratnam are refused entry into Sri Lanka because Channel 4 "harmed Sri Lanka's reputation". 7 June – Lalani Pushpa Kumari and her daughter Senara Nilmini are stabbed to death at their house in Weerahela, Tissamaharama. 27 June – Provincial council election: Eastern Provincial Council, North Central Provincial Council and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council dissolved by their governors. 28 June – Vavuniya prison riot: Prisoners, protesting against the transfer of fellow inmate Saravanabhavan to Anuradhapura prison, take three prison guards hostage. 29 June Vavuniya prison riot: Special Task Force storm the prison and release the three hostages but 30 prisoners are injured. Police raid the offices of the Sri Lanka Mirror and Sri Lanka X News websites in Colombo for publishing anti-government material, arresting nine people and confiscating equipment.July to September 4 July – Vavuniya prison riot: Ganesan Nimalaruban (Nimalarooban), one of 28 prisoners who had been transferred to Mahara prison, dies at Colombo North Teaching Hospital. 6 July – Frederica Jansz, editor of The Sunday Leader newspaper, is threatened and insulted by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. 9 July – Public health inspector Mohammed Faleel is clubbed to death as he inspects houses for dengue in the Thampalakamam area. 18 July – Kahawatte murders: U.G. Premawathie and her daughter H. D. Pushpakumari and murdered and burnt in their house in Kahawatte. 20 July – Lawyers boycott courts over threats by Government minister Risad Badhiutheen to kill Mannar magistrate Anthonypillai Judeson. 5 August – 37 Chinese fishermen are arrested by the Sri Lanka Navy off eastern Sri Lanka for fishing illegally. 7 August – The 37 Chinese fishermen arrested for fishing illegally are released. 8 August – Vavuniya prison riot: Mariadas Navis Dilrukshan (Dilrukshan Muthurasa), who had been in a coma since the riot, dies at Ragama Hospital. 19 August – The Kapilavastu relics arrive in Sri Lanka for a three-week exposition. 20 August – Three French tourists are arrested in Galle for taking pictures of themselves with Buddha statues and pretending to kiss one of them. 21 August – Three French tourists are given suspended six-month prison sentences for "wounding the religious feelings of Buddhists" by taking pictures of themselves with Buddha statues and pretending to kiss one of them. 23 August – The government closes all universities in the country amidst a strike by lecturers. 23 August – .... 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