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The Madhu School bus bombing, also known as Thadchanamadhu claymore attack, was the bombing of a school bus carried out on January 29, 2008, in rebel LTTE controlled area in Thadchanamadhu in Mannar, Northern province of Sri Lanka. The bombing killed 17 Tamils, including 11 school children, and injured at least 14 more people.
The Eastern University massacre was the arrest and subsequent mass murder of 158 minority Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who had taken refuge in the Eastern University campus close to the city Batticaloa on 5 September 1990. A witness identified Sri Lankan Army personnel as the perpetrators.
Attacks on schools in Sri Lanka. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. B. School bombings in Sri Lanka ...
Heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides and downed trees in many parts of Sri Lanka, killing at least six people and forcing authorities to close schools in some areas, officials said Friday.
Eastern Sri Lanka massacres: 16 October 1995: Villages in Eastern Sri Lanka: 120: LTTE [264] Padaviya massacre 21 October 1995: Padaviya, Anuradhapura: 19: LTTE [264] Boatta massacre Botalla, Polonnaruwa: 36: LTTE [264] Central Bank bombing: 31 January 1996: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo: 91: LTTE [105] Kumarapuram massacre / Trincomalee ...
The Chencholai bombing (also spelled Sencholai) took place on August 14, 2006, when the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed what it said was a rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) training camp, killing 61 girls aged 16 to 18.
The following is a list of attacks on civilians attributed to armed groups under the control of the Sri Lankan government, which includes the Sri Lankan Army, Sri Lankan Navy, Sri Lankan Air Force, Sri Lankan Police Service, state-backed mobs and paramilitary groups (Home Guards, EPDP, PLOTE, TMVP, Ukussa, Black Cats etc.).
From 1985 to 1989, Sri Lanka responded to violent insurrection with equal violence against the Sinhalese majority as part of the counterinsurgency measures against the uprising by the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party. [9]