Fighting continued throughout the 1990s, and was marked by two key assassinations carried out by the LTTE: those of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991,
and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993, using suicide bombers on both occasions.
On July 6, 2019, The first model village built with Indian assistance under the Model Villages Program was jointly inaugurated by Minister of Housing and Construction and
Cultural Affairs Sajith Premadasa, former President Chandrika Bandaranayke Kumaratunga
and Acting High Commissioner of India Shilpak Ambule at Ranidugama in Gampaha in Sri Lanka.