Kokilai massacre

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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

• Indian Peace Keeping Force • Rajiv Gandhi • RAW

See also

• Military of Sri Lanka • TMVP • EPDP • Notable assassinations This box: view • talk • edit

The Kokilai massacre was carried out by the LTTE, an organization which has been banned in 29 countries including the US, Australia, EU, India and Canada due to its terrorist activities. This incident sent shock waves across the island and heralded the beginning of a series of massacres carried out by the LTTE to drive out Sinhalese from the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.

[edit] Incident

The Kokilai village massacre is an incident on December 1, 1984 in which LTTE cadres massacred 11 Sinhalese civilians. This attack occurred on the day after the Kent and Dollar Farm massacres. Most of the victims were Sinhalese fishermen, were shot to death by LTTE cadres.

[edit] See also

• Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE
• Suicide terrorism: a global threat, Security, Jane's, October 20, 2000
• LTTE Tamil Tiger Atrocities, SPUR, 2002

[edit] References and further reading

• 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