The
Kokkilai massacre was carried out by the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; ta, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், translit=Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, si, දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි, t ...
.
Incident
The
Kokkilai village massacre is an incident on December 1, 1984, in which
LTTE
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; ta, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், translit=Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, si, දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි, t ...
cadres
massacred 11
Sinhalese
Sinhala may refer to:
* Something of or related to the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka
* Sinhalese people
* Sinhala language, one of the three official languages used in Sri Lanka
* Sinhala script, a writing system for the Sinhala language
** Sinha ...
civilians. This attack occurred on the day after the
Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres were one of the earliest massacres carried out by the LTTE during the Sri Lankan Civil War. The massacres took place on 30 November 1984, in two tiny farming villages in the district of Mullaitivu in north-e ...
. Most of the victims were Sinhalese fishermen, were shot to death by LTTE cadres.
References and further reading
*
Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). ''Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security'',
Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research.
*
Gunaratna, Rohan. (October 1, 1987). ''War and Peace in Sri Lanka: With a Post-Accord Report From Jaffna'',
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
: Institute of Fundamental Studies.
* Gunasekara, S.L. (November 4, 2003). ''The Wages of Sin'',
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