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The Anuradhapura massacre occurred in Sri Lanka in 1985 and was carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This was the largest massacre of Sinhalese civilians by the LTTE to date; it was also the first major operation carried out by the LTTE outside a Tamil majority area.
The attack happened on 22 October 2007. At 3:15 AM a group of 21 LTTE commandos, most of them Black Tigers, who are known to be suicide bombers, attacked the air base. Shortly after the attack started the Tigers were supported by two light aircraft from the Air Tigers which conducted a bombing run on the base and escaped undamaged. [3]
[1] [2] [3] The attacks include massacres, bombings, robberies, ethnic cleansing, military battles and assassinations of civilian and military targets. The LTTE is a separatist militant group that fought for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka between 1976 and 2009.
Date Attack Location Sinhalese Tamils Muslims Death toll Sources May 5: Wilpattu Village Massacre: Wilpattu, a Sinhalese village in Anuradhapura District, was the target of a raid of an armed group of LTTE cadres, who killed 18 villagers that included women and children.
LTTE acquired its first light aircraft in the late 1990s. Vaithilingam Sornalingam alias Shankar was instrumental in creating the Air Tigers. [136] [137] It carried out nine air attacks since 2007, including a suicide air raid targeting Sri Lanka Air Force headquarters, Colombo in February 2009. LTTE was the only rebel organisation to have an ...
The Sri Lankan Civil War was in a conflict on the island-nation of Sri Lanka.Between 1983 and 2009 there was an intermittent civil war, predominantly between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist militant organisation who during this time fought for the creation of an independent state named Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the island.
On October 22, 2007 a raid on SLAF Anuradhapura by LTTE resulted in 8 SLAF aircraft destroyed on the ground and another 10 damaged. A SLAF Bell 212 that was deployed for air defense during the attack crashed due to mechanical problems killing its crew. [4] 27 November 2009: A Mil Mi-24 crashed in Buttala in the Monaragala district killing all 4 ...
Up to the defeat of the LTTE, the Black Tigers carried out over 300 missions, most of them at sea. [42] The Black Tigers operated in three distinct ways: conventional combat on land and at sea, guerrilla attacks, and assassinations or bombings. Most of these attacks involved military objectives in the north and east of the country.