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| Operation Riviresa | |||||||
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| Part of Sri Lankan Civil War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Sri Lanka Navy |
 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Major General (later General) Rohan Daluwatte Brigadier (later Major General) Janaka Perera Brigadier Neil Dias Brigadier P.A. Karunathilaka Commodore H.R Amaraweera - Northern Naval Area Commander |
Velupillai Prabhakaran | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 25,000[1] | 3,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 500+ Killed & 650 Wounded[2] | 438 Killed [LTTE claimed] | ||||||
Operation Riviresa (Operation Sunrays), was a combined military operation launched by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in Jaffna. Starting on 17 October 1995, the primary objective of the operation was the capture of the city of Jaffna and rest of the Jaffna peninsula from the LTTE (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the Tamil Tigers). It is believed that Operation Riviresa was the largest and most successful military operation in Sri Lankan Armed Forces during the Third Eelam War.[3]
- ^ Clarke, Michael (1997). Studies, Centre for Defence (ed.). Brassey's Defence Yearbook 1997. London; Washington: Brassey's. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-85753-215-9.
- ^ Issue Papers, Extended Responses and Country Fact Sheets
- ^ "1995: Jaffna falls to Sri Lankan army". BBC News. 5 December 1995.