Kalmunai massacre
1990 series of mass killings in Sri Lanka / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kalmunai massacre refers to a series of mass killings that occurred in June 1990 in Kalmunai, a municipality within the Ampara District of Sri Lanka's Eastern Province. The massacre of Tamil civilians was allegedly carried out by the Sri Lankan Army in retaliation for an earlier massacre of Sri Lankan police officers. The University Teachers for Human Rights, a human rights organization, put the number of dead in the second massacre at 250, while a local Member of Parliament claimed that at least 160 people were killed.[1][2][3][4][5]
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Location | Eastern Province, Sri Lanka |
Date | 20 June 1990 |
Target | Sri Lankan Tamil Civilians |
Deaths | 160-250 |
Perpetrators | Sri Lanka Army Muslim Home Guard |
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