October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka massacres

Massacre of Sinhalese civilians

October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka massacres

Location| Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Date| October 1995 (+8 GMT)
Target| Sinhalese civilians

Attack type

| Mass murder
Deaths| 120[1]
Injured| Unknown
Perpetrators| Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

The October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka massacres were a series of massacres of the Sinhalese population in the Eastern Province carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the Sri Lankan Civil War.

These massacres occurred at small villages in the Eastern Province.[2] According to Sri Lankan academic Asoka Bandarage, the reason behind the massacres was alleged to be the ethnic cleansing of Sinhalese in the region.[3] The Sri Lankan Army claimed that the massacres were designed to divert the Army's attention away from its offensive in Jaffna.[4]

## Incident

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On October 21, at Boatte, the LTTE had intruded the village at night and hacked to death the sleeping villagers. 26 Sinhalese and 10 Tamils were killed. Another two villages were attacked that day, and in total, 71 were killed.[5]

The next day, the LTTE had invaded Kotiyagala and massacred 19 Sinhalese. One boy had been beheaded and another had his arms dismembered.[5]

By the end of the violence, 120 Sinhalese civilians were killed. Many of the victims were hacked to death with swords and axes. According to the U.S. Department of State, the LTTE also raped a number of women as a terror tactic.[2]

## See also

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* List of massacres in Sri Lanka
* List of attacks attributed to the LTTE
* List of attacks attributed to Sri Lankan government forces

## Notes

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1. ^ Newman, Edward. Understanding Civil Wars: Continuity and change in intrastate conflict. Routledge. p. 183.
2. ^ a b "1995 Human Rights Report: SRI LANKA". Archived from the original on 2005-03-20. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
3. ^ Bandarage, Asoka. The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, Ethnicity, Political Economy. Routledge. p. 164.
4. ^ Jayasinghe, Amal (27 October 1995). "Sri Lanka now in virtual state of war". The Guardian.
5. ^ a b Macfie, Nick (24 October 1995). "Village in shock at Tiger killings". The Guardian. Reuters.

## References and further reading

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* 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 4, 2003). The Wages of Sin, ISBN 955-8552-01-1
* https://web.archive.org/web/20050320003919/http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_sasia/SriLanka.html

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