Four Four Bravo ambush
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title:
Four Four Bravo ambush
text:
Four Four Bravo was the call sign of a fifteen-man Sri Lankan Army patrol, deployed in the Jaffna Peninsula on 23 July 1983. The patrol was ambushed and thirteen of 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 Sri Lankan Civil War.
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description:
Call sign of a Sri Lankan Army patrol, ambushed by Tamil separatists in 1983
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Four_Bravo_ambush
date created:
2009-07-17T16:38:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T15:57:36Z
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