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GENOCIDES Commited by the LTTE
Massacre in Anuradhapura
The LTTE launched its first major attack on civilians in the sacred city of Anuradhapura. It took place on May 14, 1985 when LTTE killed 146 Sinhalese men, women and children in Anuradhapura. The LTTE entered the city by a hijacked bus and as they entered the bus station, they opened fire indiscriminately on people waiting for buses. Thereafter, LTTE cadres stormed Sri Maha Bodhi and killed Nuns, Monks and civilians inside the shrine. The attack was aimed at triggering a backlash against the Tamils in order to prove that Sinhalese are racists. Before withdrawing, the attackers entered the Wilpattu National Park and killed 18 Sinhalese in the forest reserve.
 
Arantalawa massacre
On June 2, 1987, LTTE massacred 33 young Monks and the Chief Priest Ven. Hegoda Indrasara Thera at Aranthalawa in Ampara. The group of Buddhist priests were on a pilgrimage to Kelaniya. As the bus reached Arantalawa, the bus driver sensed danger when he saw wooden logs blocking the road. Twenty LTTE terrorists emerged from the jungle wielding swords, knives and machine guns.

They climbed into the bus and butchered the priests.
 
LTTE bombs Sri Dalada Maligawa - One of the UNESCO designated World Heritage Sites
At 0600 hrs Sri Lankan time on 25 January 1998 the Tamil Tiger terrorists blasted a high powered truck bomb in the city centre of Kandy, Sri Lanka’s ancient capital, killing scores of people and damaging the most revered 1000 year old world heritage site-the Temple of the Tooth.

According to news from Kandy the number killed and injured is about 20 but not confirmed due to tight security measures clamped down by the police and other security services.

The temple houses the tooth relic of Lord Buddha, jealously guarded from generation to generations by the Sinhalese kings and Buddhist laity. The tooth relic is considered by the Sinhalese as the ultimate symbol of sovereignity over the Island and is venerated by Buddhists world over. All important visiting dignitaries to Sri Lanka from the Buddhist world and other countries consider a visit to the Temple of the Tooth as a must.

From the commencement of the separatist terrorism by the Tamil Tigers one of their objective was to vandalise Buddhist temples and destroy ancient sites of Sinhalese civilization. Hundreds of Buddhist temples were razed to the ground in the Northern part of Sri Lanka by Tamil Tigers replacing them with Hindu temples. They have killed thousands of Buddhists and hundreds of Buddhist monks in their campaign of ethnic cleansing in Northern Sri Lanka and some parts of the Eastern Province.In addition to theses heinous crimes, the Tamil Tiger terrorists have been on a killing spree choosing cities and places important to Sinhalese Buddhists in their attempt to create a blacklash on the Tamils to attract world sympathy and to de-rail the Sri Lankan government’s military offensive to wipe out Tamil Tigers.

The attack on the sacred Temple of the Tooth clearly shows the barbaric nature of the Tamil Tigers.They have no respect for places of worship and world heritage sites such as Kandy which is a veritable storehouse of the ancient Sinhalese civilization.Tamil Tigers have been known as the Pol-Pots in Sri Lanka and they continue to show their lack of respect to human lives and gains of civilization.