Kalmunai massacre

Kalmunai massacre
LocationEastern Province, Sri Lanka
Date20 June 1990
TargetSri Lankan Tamil Civilians
Deaths160-250
PerpetratorsSri Lanka Army Muslim Home Guard

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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