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The Thirunelveli massacre happened on July 24, 1983, following the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers in an LTTE ambush in Thirunelveli the night before...

its members were killed by the LTTE. This incident sparked the Thirunelveli massacre and the Black July riots and is considered to be the start of the...

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Sri Lanka and its predecessors. (Numbers may be approximate.) All males between 15 and 60 years...

of violence against civilians including numerous instances of civilian massacres, ethnic cleansing, pogroms, forced disappearances, sexual violence, destruction...

Tamil and majority Sinhalese communities of Sri Lanka. 24 July – Thirunelveli massacre: In response to the ambush the day before, truckloads of Sri Lankan...

Chandra Pal, Winch, a British official invited Chidambaram to meet him in Thirunelveli with his political comrade Subramanya Siva. At the meeting, Winch expressed...

On 23 July 1983, the LTTE ambushed the Army patrol Four Four Bravo at Thirunelveli, Jaffna and killed thirteen soldiers. The ambush provided the pretext...

smashing all the shops on the way to Thirunelveli. Over 60 Tamil civilians in Jaffna were subsequently massacred by the rampaging army in revenge. Whereas...

of Thirunelveli, killing an officer and 12 soldiers. Using nationalistic sentiments to their advantage, members of the ruling UNP organized massacres and...

down after being gang raped by Sinhalese soldiers. On 14 March 1998, in Thirunelveli, Jaffna, a 3 month old pregnant Tamil woman was raped by a Sri Lankan...

Labourers massacre was brutal police action on a procession taken out in support of agitating tea estate workers, claimed 17 lives in Thirunelveli, Tamil...

the LTTE ambushed an army patrol and killed 13 Sri Lankan soldiers in Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka. As a response to this were one of the worst government sponsored...

editor Ramakrishna Pillai was arrested and banished from Travancore to Thirunelveli. After the confiscation of the press, Moulavi concentrated more on social...

city is surrounded by Jaffna Lagoon to its west and south, Kokkuvil and Thirunelveli to the north, and Nallur to the east. Jaffna peninsula is made of limestone...

6 February 2012. "Sri Lanka: The Untold Story, Chapter 29 – Prisoners massacred". Asia Times. 2 March 2002. Archived from the original on 31 March 2002...

around 11.30 pm, the LTTE ambushed the Four Four Bravo military patrol in Thirunelveli near Jaffna. Thirteen soldiers were killed on the spot, two died later...

killing of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, generally held responsible for the Amritsar Massacre, on 13 March 1940, by Udham Singh in London. During the Quit India Movement...

him to the hospital. He died on the way. "That massacre upon massacre". "That massacre upon massacre". Amarasingam, Amarnath (September 3, 2015). Pain...

original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2011. Elmo Fernando: LTTE massacre site is haven for Tamil victims Archived 8 November 2012 at the Wayback...