Kent and Dollar Farm massacres

Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
Kent and Dollar Farm massacres
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]

^ Rubin, Barnett R. (1987). Cycles of Violence: Human Rights in Sri Lanka Since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. Human Rights Watch. p. 112.
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[1] Rubin, Barnett R. (1987). Cycles of Violence: Human Rights in Sri Lanka Since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. Human Rights Watch. p. 112.

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