What the records say
- When
- 2 Jun 1987
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 37
- Coordinates
- 7.53° N, 81.48° E
- Description
- 1987 Buddhist monk massacre
Aranthalawa massacre
1987 Buddhist monk massacre
The Aranthalawa massacre was the massacre of 33 Buddhist monks, most of them young novice monks, and four civilians by cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization on June 2, 1987, close to the village of Aranthalawa, in the Ampara District of Eastern Sri Lanka.
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