What the records say
- When
- 1 Dec 1984
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 41,579
- Coordinates
- 9.00° N, 80.95° E
- Description
- carried out by the LTTE in December 1984
Placed at the town its title names, Kokkilai.
Kokkilai massacre
Massacre of Sinhalese at Kokkilai in 1984 by the LTTE
The Kokkilai massacre was a massacre of Sinhalese civilians carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the coastal village of Kokkilai. It was the group's second massacre of Sinhalese civilians.
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