The October 1995 massacres were carried out by the

LTTE The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; ta, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், translit=Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, si, දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි, t ...

, an organization which has been banned in 33 countries including the US, Australia, EU, India and Canada due to its

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

activities. These massacres occurred at small villages in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka. These massacres formed part of a series of massacres aimed at driving Sinhalese civilians from the Eastern province of Sri Lanka in the process of

ethnic cleansing Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer ...

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During these massacres, 120 Sinhalese civilians were killed by LTTE cadres. The dead included men, women and children. Many of the victims were hacked to death with swords and axes. The LTTE also raped a large number of women as a terror tactic.

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References and further reading

* Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). ''Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security'',

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

: 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'', * https://web.archive.org/web/20050320003919/http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_sasia/SriLanka.html Massacres in 1995 October 1995 events in Asia October 1995 crimes Massacres in Sri Lanka Mass murder of Sinhalese Mass murder in 1995 Terrorist incidents in Sri Lanka in 1995 {{Terrorism-stub

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