• The Murunkan massacre of Inspector Bastianpillai and his team of police officers was the mass murder of a team of CID officers of the Sri Lanka Police...
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  • The massacre provoked revenge riots in the Gal Oya valley, instigated by police officers. 26 Tamils were killed by Sinhalese mobs. Murunkan massacre Gunaratna...
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  • The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Sri Lanka and its predecessors. (Numbers may be approximate.) All males between 15 and 60 years...
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  • and bus passengers were attacked. Villages around Mannar town such as Murunkan and Parappankadal were also attacked. Immediately after the incident, the...
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  • 19 killed in blast Revisiting Tamil Tiger massacres in Sri Lanka, Sunday Observer List of Muslims massacred by Tiger Terrorists from March 6, 1988 to...
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  • of violence against civilians including numerous instances of civilian massacres, ethnic cleansing, pogroms, forced disappearances, sexual violence, destruction...
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    Northern Province. It has an area of 1,996 square kilometres (771 sq mi). Murunkan (English = cracked earth) is due to the black clay surface which is cracked...
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    the year 1975. He served as parish priest first at Manipay and later in Murunkan and Madhu in Mannar district. During military offensives by the Sri Lankan...
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  • formation of the CID TULF desk which lead to some of its members being massacred at Murunkan. Thereafter the Police Special Branch functioning under the Intelligence...
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  • List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 1970s (category Massacres in Sri Lanka)
    mutilated and their car is set on fire after its radio equipment is taken. Murunkan, Mannar District 3 3 May Inspector Pathmanathan is killed in his home....
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  • Methodist farm known Jeevothayam Methodist Center in a nearby village called Murunkan in the Mannar district. He was engaged in social and pastoral work with...
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    Tamil bakery was set on fire about a mile away from the police station in Murunkan. A Tamil watcher of the government farm had been attacked by 2 people who...
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