page_title: 2012 in Sri Lanka
section_title: January to March
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 in Sri Lanka / Events / January to March
caption_attribution_description: English: UN Human Rights Council 19th regular session 22 March 2012 vote on resolution 19/2 on reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka. &#160;&#160; For &#160;&#160; Against &#160;&#160; Abstain Used File:BlankMap-World.png as template.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2012 in Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: 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".
caption: 22 March: United Nations Human Rights Council passes resolution 19/2 on Sri Lanka
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