1985 Valvettiturai massacre

Massacre in Sri Lanka the 1989 Valvettiturai massacre 1985 Valvettiturai massacre Sri Lanka 9 49 N 80 10 E Sri Lanka relief location map.jpg Valvettiturai, Sri Lanka 9 49 N 80 10 E region:LK inline,title Mostly the Sri Lankan Tamil civilians 12 May 1985 70 Sri Lanka The 1985 Valvettiturai massacre happened on May 12, 1985 after 2 landmine attacks killed 10 soldiers and an officer in Valvettiturai. 70 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians from the town of Valvettithurai (abbreviated as VVT), Sri Lanka were rounded up. They were asked to go inside the town library and then the library was blown up by the Sri Lankan Army, killing all of them.Hoole Rajan Sri Lanka: The Arrogance of Power: Myths, Decadence & Murder 2001 University Teachers for Human Rights 955-9447-04-1 p. 214 The LTTE would later apparently retaliate in Anuradhapura.Brown Cynthia Playing the "Communal Card": Communal Violence and Human Rights 1995 Human rights Watch 1-56432-152-5 registration https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1995/communal/ p. 91 In the ensuing weeks dozens more Tamil civilians were also killed.PhD Gassbeek Timmo 2010 Bridging troubled waters? Everyday inter-ethnic interaction in a context of violent conflict in Kottiyar Pattu, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka Wageningen University https://edepot.wur.nl/138278 152 See also List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces References Category:1985 crimes in Sri Lanka Category:Attacks on civilians attributed to the Sri Lanka Army Category:1980s massacres in the Sri Lankan civil war Category:Massacres in 1985 Category:Massacres of Sri Lankan Tamils Category:Sri Lankan government forces attacks in Eelam War I Category:Valvettithurai Category:Terrorist incidents in Sri Lanka in 1985