Operation Riviresa

Operation Riviresa
	Part of Sri Lankan Civil War
Date	17 November – 5 December 1995; (18 days);
Location	Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Result	Sri Lankan Military victory
Belligerents
Sri Lanka Army; 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	3,000
Casualties and losses
500+Killed & 650 Wounded	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.

[1] 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.

[CBA1-2] Issue Papers, Extended Responses and Country Fact Sheets

[3] "1995: Jaffna falls to Sri Lankan army". BBC News. 5 December 1995.

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