Aranthalawa Massacre (1987-06-02)

See: Sri Lankan Civil War, Aranthalawa, Sri Lanka, UTC, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Massacre, Buddhist Monks, Buddhist Novitiate, Ampara District.

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(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranthalawa_massacre Retrieved:2023-12-28.
- The Aranthalawa massacre was the massacre of 33 Buddhist monks, most of them young novice monks, and four civilians by cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization (the LTTE, commonly known as the Tamil Tigers) on June 2, 1987, close to the village of Aranthalawa, in the Ampara District of Eastern Sri Lanka. The massacre is among the most notorious and devastating atrocities committed by the LTTE during the history of the Sri Lankan Civil War, and continues to be commemorated 35 years on.