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2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. Three of the major targets. Clockwise from upper left: The Kingsbury; Shangri-La Hotel; St. Anthony's Shrine. On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS -related terrorist suicide bombings.
This bombing, and one in July on a train that killed more than 70, caused tourism to plummet 40% in Sri Lanka. Until 2006, the Central Bank bombing was the deadliest LTTE bombing of the civil war.
During the Sri Lankan Civil War militant groups, paramilitary groups and government security forces were accused of assassinating many public figures on suspicion of being sympathizers or informants, in retaliation for killings and attacks, to eliminate competition from rival groups, or to stifle dissent. [1] The following is a list of notable assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War ...
The 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack was an attack on the Temple of the Tooth Relic, located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The shrine, which is considered to be important to the Buddhists in Sri Lanka, houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha, and is also a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site. [1] [2] In 1998, it was attacked by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist militant ...
Colombo central bus station bombing. The Colombo central bus station bombing was the car bombing of the central bus terminal of Colombo carried out on April 21, 1987, in Pettah, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 80-pound (36 kg) bomb killed at least 113 people and left a 10-foot (3 m) crater in the ground.
Assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa. Ranasinghe Premadasa, the 3rd President of Sri Lanka, was assassinated on 1 May 1993. Premadasa, along with 23 others, were killed in an explosion set off by an LTTE suicide bomber during a May Day rally held in the country's capital of Colombo. The rally was organised by Premadasa's ruling political party ...
War crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War are war crimes and crimes against humanity which the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) have been accused of committing during the final months of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009. [11] The war crimes include attacks on civilians and civilian buildings by both sides; executions of ...
Ponnampalam Memorial hospital. Ponnampalam Memorial hospital is located in Puthukudiyiruppu in Mullaitivu District .It was run by the LTTE in rebel controlled areas. [1] [2] It was bombed by the Sri Lankan airforce and the hospital was destroyed. [3] [4] [5] Human Rights Watch accused the Sri Lankan military of shelling hospitals in the Safe ...