Kent and Dollar Farm massacres | |
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Location | Kent and Dollar Farms, Vavuniya, Sri Lanka |
Date | 30 November 1984 |
Attack type | Massacre |
Weapons | Submachine guns, automatic rifles, hand grenades |
Deaths | 82 killed (including civilians, home guards, military personnel) |
Perpetrators | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) |
The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres were the first massacres of Sinhalese civilians carried out by the LTTE during the Sri Lankan Civil War.[1] The massacres took place on 30 November 1984, in two tiny farming villages in the Mullaitivu district in north-eastern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government labeled this as an attack on civilians by the LTTE.[2]