Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people assassinated by Sri Lankan government forces
Article complies with ,  and .  have been provided. Article is third in a series of Sri Lankan assassinations lists by perpetrators, the other two being '''List of people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam''' and '''List of people assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna'''. If this list is , , ,  and , so are the other two lists. Nominator claims that this list is  and  but then suggests that most of the entries could be included on List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces, a contradiction. And "''armed forces of a country have the right to defend its territory and it is inevitable to prevent the assassinations of militants during a war or insurrection''" and "''many of the entries in the list includes assassinations caused due to sudden provocation of individuals, which cannot be attributed to the entire forces of a country, because those assassinations were not pre-planned and have not provided any military or political advantage to their cause during a war or insurrections''" - not sure which Wikipedia policies cover this
— User:Obi2canibe, 12:01, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:NOR||WP:NPOV||WP:RS||WP:POVFORK||WP:SALAT||WP:NOT||WP:REDUNDANT||WP:SOAPBOX||WP:SYNTH||WP:OR (Wikipedia:Verifiability)