Kent and Dollar Farm massacres

The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres was one of the earliest massacres of Sinhalese civilians 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.

Number of casualties

At Dollar Farm, 33 Sinhalese were killed 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 killed, 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.

See also

• List of massacres in Sri Lanka
• List of attacks attributed to the LTTE
• List of attacks attributed to Sri Lankan government forces

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 4, 2003). The Wages of Sin, ISBN 955-8552-01-1

Further reading

• Suicide terrorism: a global threat, Security, Jane's, October 20, 2000
• Kent Farm and Dollar Farm massacre; Pictures of murdered civilians, Lanka Library, June 11, 2006
• LTTE Tamil Tiger Atrocities, 2002