Kent and Dollar Farm massacres

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Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
Bodies of civilians massacred by the LTTE lying in Kent Farm
Location	Kent and Dollar Farms, Vavunia, Sri Lanka
Target(s)	Unarmed civilians at Kent and Dollar Farms
Date	November 30, 1984
Attack Type	Massacre
Fatalities	62 killed
Perpetrator(s)	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

Sri Lankan Conflict

Background

• Sri Lanka • History of Sri Lanka

Origins of the Civil War

• Origins of the Civil War
• Black July • Human Rights Issues • Riots and pogroms
• Attributed State terrorism
• Prison massacres
• Tamil militant groups

LTTE

• LTTE • Attributed Terrorist attacks • Child Soldiers
• Attributed assasinations
• Notable Attacks • Expulsion of Muslims from Jaffna

Major figures

• Mahinda Rajapakse
• Velupillai Prabhakaran
• Karuna Amman
• Sarath Fonseka

Indian Involvement

• Operation Poomalai
• Indo-Sri Lanka Accord
• Indian Peace Keeping Force
• Rajiv Gandhi • RAW

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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.

1 Number of casualties
2 Related incidents
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading

[edit] 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.

[edit] Related incidents

Bodies of Sinhalese children who were barbarically killed by LTTE

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

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 died

[edit] See also

Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE

[edit] 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