What the records say
- When
- 28 Mar 1984
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 9
- Coordinates
- 9.74° N, 80.03° E
- Description
- 1984 massacre of civilians in Sri Lanka
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Chunnakam market massacre
1984 massacre of civilians in Sri Lanka
The Chunnakam market massacre was a massacre of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan military in Chunnakam, a suburb of Jaffna in the Northern Province, Sri Lanka, in 1984. This was the second such massacre carried out in the town, during the same year after 20 Tamil youth were massacred by the Sri Lankan military at the local Police station just two months earlier.
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