| 1989 Temple of the Tooth attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection | |
  Kandy Kandy (Sri Lanka) | |
| Location | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| Coordinates | 7°17′38″N 80°38′19″E / 7.29389°N 80.63861°E |
| Date | February 8, 1989 |
| Target | Temple of the Tooth |
Attack type | Attack using small arms |
| Weapons | Guns |
| Deaths | 2–5 |
| Injured | 1+ |
| Perpetrators | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
The 1989 Temple of the Tooth attack was an attack on the Temple of the Tooth Relic, located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The shrine, which is considered sacred to the Buddhists in Sri Lanka, houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha and is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.[1][2][3] It was attacked on 8 February 1989, allegedly by the armed cadres affiliated to Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka.[4][5][6]
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.. but the temple faced the first attack during the insurrection of the radical Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the 1980s.
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