Misplaced Pages

Kent and Dollar Farm massacres

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Iwazaki (talk | contribs) at 01:55, 2 March 2007 (Revert to revision 111917540 dated 2007-03-01 21:29:42 by Snowolfd4 using popups). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 01:55, 2 March 2007 by Iwazaki (talk | contribs) (Revert to revision 111917540 dated 2007-03-01 21:29:42 by Snowolfd4 using popups)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
File:Dollar Farm Massacare.jpgBodies of civilians massacred by the LTTE lying in Kent Farm
LocationKent and Dollar Farms, Vavunia, Sri Lanka
DateNovember 30 1984
TargetUnarmed civilians at Kent and Dollar Farms
Attack typeMassacre
Deaths62 killed
PerpetratorsLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009)
Origins
Combatants
 Sri Lanka
LTTE
Other militants (list)
 India
Sri Lanka Paramilitary groups
Phases
Major battles
Major events
Leaders
Sri Lanka
Military
Army
Navy
Air Force
Civilian
LTTE
Militant
Political
India
Military
Civilian
Aftermath
Related topics

The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres was one of the earliest massacres of Sinhalese civilian carried out by the LTTE during the Sri Lankan Civil War. The massacres took place on November 30 1984, in two tiny farming villages in the district of Mullaitivu in north-eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE had claimed that the North East of Sri Lanka was the exclusive homeland of Tamils, and began their campaign of ethnic cleansing in the 1980's. The Sinhalese and Muslim communities of the Northern Province and Eastern Province of Sri Lanka suffered severe loss of lives and property as a result of numerous civilian massacres carried out by the LTTE for the purpose of ethnically cleansing the North East of Sri Lanka.

Number of casualties

At Dollar farm, 33 Sinhalese were murdered and several others were injured in the shooting carried out by the cadres of LTTE. On the same day at Kent farm, another 29 Sinhalese civilians were massacred, thus increasing the total death toll to 62. Among the civilian casualties were men, women and children. The LTTE operatives used submachine guns , automatic rifles and hand grenades to kill civilians. Survivors also reported that LTTE cadres had killed children by bashing their heads against walls.

Related incidents

File:Kids were in kent.JPG
Bodies of Sinhalese children who were barbarically killed by LTTE

Some of the related LTTE attacks on civilians between 1984 and 2006 include the

See also

References

Further reading

Categories: