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1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers | |
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Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War | |
Location | Eastern Province, Sri Lanka |
Date | 11 June 1990 |
Target | Unarmed Sri Lanka Police officers who had surrendered |
Attack type | Armed massacre, mass shooting, domestic terrorism |
Weapons | Firearms |
Deaths | 600–774 police officers 10 soldiers |
Perpetrators | LTTE |
Execution-style mass murder of unarmed police officers was carried out by the militant organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka on 11 June 1990. Members of the LTTE are alleged to have killed over 600[1] unarmed Sri Lanka Police officers in Eastern Province on that day. Some accounts have estimated the number of killed officers as high as 774.[2]