1984 Manal Aru massacres

From 1 December 1984 to 15 December 1984, the Sri Lankan military executed a series of massacres of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians across numerous traditional Tamil villages in the Manal Aru region, which spans the Mullaitivu and Trincomalee districts. The motive behind the massacres was to drive out the local Tamil population from their villages, in order to replace them with thousands of Sinhala settlers The Tamil people whom the military expelled remain permanently uprooted from their land, and a Sinhala colony called Weli Oya was formed in their place.