Aranthalawa Masacre
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Number of deaths | 37 |
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Locations | Sri Lanka |
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ID | 3085083 |
About Aranthalawa Masacre
The Aranthalawa massacre was the massacre of 33 Buddhist monks, most of them young novice monks, and four civilians by cadres of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization on June 2, 1987, close to the village of Aranthalawa, in the Ampara District of Eastern Sri Lanka.