What the records say
- When
- 10 Jun 1986
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 33
- Coordinates
- 7.00° N, 81.00° E
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Mandaithivu sea massacre
Mandaithivu sea massacre was a civilian massacre of ethnic Tamils by members of the Sri Lankan Navy off the coast of Mandaitivu island of the Jaffna Peninsula. 33 civilians, all of them fishermen mostly from Gurunagar, who had been fishing at sea were attacked, tortured and murdered by Sri Lankan Navy personnel on 10 June 1986.
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