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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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The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres took place on November 30 1984, at two Sinhalese farming settlements in the district of Mullaitivu. The attack is widely attributed, by both Sinhalese and Tamil groups, to the LTTE and was conducted as part of a cycle of revenge killings that had been inflicted on Tamil and Sinhalese civilian communities by both the Sri Lankan military and the Tamil militants respectfully. The LTTE however have not yet acknowledged involvement in the attack.

Background to the Massacre

During the late 70s and early 80s calls for a separate state intensified from the Tamil minority of Sri Lanka. The Government accelerated it's sponsored rehabilitation of Sinhalese people into Tamil areas, a move viewed by the separatist factions as an attempt to shift the demographics of the areas and to weaken their bid for those lands. They further went on to claim that these settlements were being used as launching pads for attacks into neighboring Tamil communities. The Government in turn argued that the members of the settlement were armed for the purpose of 'self-defense'.

Tamil political groups and international organizations such as Amnesty International considered the Kent and Dollar Farms to part of such colonization schemes. The location of the settlement had originally been a refugee site holding Indian Tamils who had fled anti-Tamil riots in the Hill Countries in 1977. According to Tamil groups it was the Government sponsored settlement of 450 Sinhalese ex-convicts and their families, along with military violence against Tamil communities in the area that resulted in revenge killings being conducted by the Tamil militants.

Sinhalese factions argue that the massacre was an act of ethnic cleansing, conducted to remove the Sinhalese population from Tamil 'homelands'.

Number of casualties

33 Sinhalese were killed and several others injured in the shooting carried out by the attackers on Dollar Farm. On the same day at Kent farm, another 29 Sinhalese civilians were massacred, thus increasing the total death toll to 62. Civilian casualties included men, women and children. The attackers had allegedly used submachine guns , automatic rifles and hand grenades.

See also

• State terrorism in Sri Lanka
• Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE

Citations

1. Sivanayagam, S. Sri Lanka: Witness to History, Sivayogam, UK, 2005
2. Amnesty International report on Sri Lanka: "Disappearances" (AI Index: ASA 37/08/86)
3. University Teachers for Human Rights, Special Report No.5

References and further reading

• Suicide terrorism: a global threat, Security, Jane's, October 20, 2000
• Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security, Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research. ISBN 955-8093-00-9
• Gunaratna, Rohan. (October 1, 1987). War and Peace in Sri Lanka: With a Post-Accord Report From Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Institute of Fundamental Studies. ISBN 955-8093-00-9
• Gunasekara, S.L. (November 04, 2003). The Wages of Sin, ISBN 955-8552-01-1

• Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE
• Terrorist incidents in the 1980s
• Civilian massacres in Sri Lanka
• War crimes in Sri Lanka