- Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
Infobox terrorist attack
title=Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
caption=Bodies of civilians massacred by the LTTE lying in Kent Farm
location=Kent and Dollar Farms, Vavunia, Sri Lanka
target=Unarmed civilians at Kent and Dollar Farms
date=November 30 1984
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fatalities=62 killed
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perps=Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres was one of the earliest massacres of Sinhalese civilians carried out by the
LTTE during theSri Lankan Civil War . The massacres took place onNovember 30 1984 , in two tiny farming villages in the district ofMullaitivu in north-eastern 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 usedsubmachine gun s,automatic rifle s and handgrenades to kill civilians. Survivors also reported that LTTE cadres had killed children by bashing their heads against walls.Fact|date=December 2007Related incidents
Some of the related LTTE attacks on civilians between 1984 and 2006 include the
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Kebithigollewa massacre - 62 Sinhalese civilians died
*Gonagala massacre - 54 Sinhalese civilians died
*October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka Massacres - 120 Sinhalese civilians died
*Kallarawa massacre - 42 Sinhalese civilians died
*Dehiwala train bombing - 56 Sinhalese civilians died
*Palliyagodella massacre - 166 Muslim Civilians died
*Central Bank Bombing - 102 civilians died
*Anuradhapura massacre - 146 Sinhalese civilians diedSee also
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Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE References
* 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
*UTHR (15 September 1993) [http://www.uthr.org/SpecialReports/spreport5.htm FROM MANAL AARU TO WELI OYA AND THE SPIRIT OF JULY 1983] SPECIAL REPORT 5.
* T. Sabaratnam [http://www.sangam.org/articles/view2/?uid=975 Pirapaharan, Chapter 40] Operation Green Arrow. Ilankai Tamil SangamFurther reading
* [http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/usscole/jir001020_1_n.shtml Suicide terrorism: a global threat] , "Security, Jane's",
October 20 ,2000
* [http://www.lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=3611& Kent Farm and Dollar Farm massacre; Pictures of murdered civilians] , "Lanka Library",June 11 ,2006
* [http://www.spur.asn.au/ltteatrp.htm LTTE Tamil Tiger Atrocities] ,2002
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