MASSACRE OF SRI LANKA POLICE

CONFLICT

• A separatist group that didn't like
• How the Government was running its social group

THE MASSACRE

• They killed over 600 unarmed
• Sri Lanka police officers

BUILD UP TO THE MASSACRE

• On June 7, 1990, a vehicle carrying Army .
• personnel from Vavuniya to Mullaitivu was fired by the LTTE
• One soldier died and 9 injured. But Defense Ministry instructed
• to take no action

MORE BUILD UP

• Batticaloa police locked up a Muslim youth,
• allegedly found in a compromising position
• The tailor was a youth worked for the LTTE
• Police refused telling that the person had been moved
• The LTTE they abducted 2 Tamil police officers.