1985 Trincomalee massacres
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title:
1985 Trincomalee massacres
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The 1985 Trincomalee massacres refers to a series of mass murder of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan military and Sinhalese home guards in Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka. In a succession of events that spanned over two months, hundreds of Tamil civilians were massacred and thousands were driven out by the Sri Lankan military and Sinhalese mobs in order to colonize the area. Almost every Tamil settlement in the district was destroyed during this well-orchestrated campaign to drive out the local
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1985 Massacres
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Trincomalee_massacres
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2014-01-13T19:48:10Z
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2024-09-12T12:20:13Z
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