Operation Rana Gosa
| Operation Rana Gosa | |||||||||
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| Part of Sri Lankan civil war | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Sri Lanka Army | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Lt. Gen. Srilal Weerasooriya | Velupillai Prabhakaran | ||||||||
Operation Rana Gosa, (battle cry in Sinhala), was an operation fought during the Sri Lankan Civil War as part of Eelam War III launched on 4 March 1999. The Operation resulted in the Sri Lankan Army re-capturing of 535 square kilometres of territory previously occupied by the LTTE.