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v t e Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009)
Origins	Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism Sinhala Only Act 1956 1958 Vaddukoddai Resolution 1977 1981 Burning of Jaffna Library Black July
Combatants	Sri Lanka Army (LRRP) Navy Air Force Police Special Task Force Home Guards Attacks on civilians Assassinations LTTE Divisions Air Tigers Sea Tigers Black Tigers Attacks in the 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Assassinations Suicide bombings Other militants (list) ENDLF ENLF EPRLF EROS PLOTE TELO  India Indian Peace Keeping Force Paramilitary groups EPDP TMVP
Phases	Eelam War I Indian intervention Eelam War II III IV Eastern / Northern theatres
Major battles	Kokkilai Vadamarachchi Poomalai Pawan Jaffna University Helidrop Balavegaya 1st Elephant Pass Pooneryn Riviresa 1st Mullaitivu Weli Oya Sath Jaya Vavunathivu Jayasikurui Thandikulam–Omanthai 1st Kilinochchi Oddusuddan A-9 highway 2nd Elephant Pass Bandaranaike Airport attack Point Pedro Jaffna Thoppigala Vidattaltivu 2nd Kilinochchi 2nd Mullaitivu Puthukkudiyirippu
Major events	Air Lanka Flight 512 Indo-Sri Lanka Accord Expulsions from Northern province Assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi Assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa Temple of the Tooth attack Lionair Flight 602 Bandaranaike Airport attack Expulsions from Colombo 2009 suicide air raid on Colombo
Leaders	Sri Lanka Military Army Tissa Weeratunga Nalin Seneviratne Hamilton Wanasinghe Cecil Waidyaratne G. H. De Silva Rohan Daluwatte Srilal Weerasooriya L. P. Balagalle Shantha Kottegoda Sarath Fonseka Navy Asoka de Silva H. A. Silva Clancy Fernando D. A. M. R. Samarasekara H. C. A. C. Thisera Daya Sandagiri Wasantha Karannagoda Air Force Dick Perera Andibuduge Fernando Makalandage Gunawardena Oliver Ranasinghe Jayalath Weerakkody Donald Perera Roshan Goonetileke Civilian J. R. Jayewardene Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa LTTE Militant Velupillai Prabhakaran Pottu Amman Soosai Karuna Amman Political Selvarasa Pathmanathan Anton Balasingham S. P. Thamilselvan India Military Harkirat Singh Ashok K. Mehta Kulwant Singh Depinder Singh Dalvir Singh Krishnaswamy Sundarji Civilian R. Venkataraman Rajiv Gandhi V. P. Singh Jyotindra Nath Dixit J. Jayalalithaa M. Karunanidhi Vaiko
Aftermath	Genocide Films NPC resolution LLRC Reactions (Protests) Remembrance Day UN Panel on Accountability War crimes Chemical weapons
Related topics	Casualties Assassinations Massacres Child soldiers Disappearances Office on Missing Persons Human rights Popular culture Terrorism Non-state State PTA Sexual violence Sixth Amendment Thirteenth Amendment 1988 Maldives coup attempt 1987–1989 JVP insurrection
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Pottuvil massacre is disputed event in the ongoing Sri Lankan civil war. It happened on Monday, 18 September 2006, when 10 unarmed minority Muslim civilians in the Eastern provencial town of Pottuvil were murdered. All the men were aged between 19-35 and were in the area to repair a broken irrigation system, three of the men were decapitated and the others shot or hacked to death.

Initially a BBC report stated that some members of the community accused the Special Task Force of involvement in this incident. The local Muslim population staged protests demanding the removal of the STF(Special Task Force)Officer and they questioned how the LTTE could infiltrate into an area carrying swords kill 10 people and then leave without the STF spotting them and no encounter between the LTTE and the STF took place.Rauff Hakeem,the leader of the SLMC ,initially wanted an international commission to probe the incident.

However according to Sri Lankan government sources the local Muslim community took back those accusations and have expressed their conviction that the LTTE carried out the massacre. According to the government their claims were further strengthened by F.I. Meera Mohideen, the sole survivour of the attack, who in a later interview released by the Ministry of Defence, stated

This group of persons were wearing T shirts similar to the ones worn by Tamil Tigers. They spoke fluent Tamil. I can definitely say that they were Tamil Tigers

. Link to Video.

See also

• Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
• Gonagala massacre
• Kokilai massacre

References

1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5355088.stm
2. http://www.themorningleader.lk/20060920/news.html
3. http://www.themorningleader.lk/20060927/interviews.html
4. http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20060922_02

External links

• Muslims protest against massacre
• The morning leader report

• Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE
• Terrorist incidents in 2006
• 2006 in Sri Lanka
• Civilian massacres in Sri Lanka