Date 12 May 1985 Deaths 70 | Target Civilians Perpetrators Sri Lankan Army | |
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Location Valvettiturai, Sri Lanka | ||
The 1985 Valvettiturai massacre happened on May 12, 1985, when 70 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians from the town of Valvettiturai (abbreviated as VVT), Sri Lanka were rounded up. They were asked to go inside the town library and then the library was allegedly blown up by the Sri Lankan Army killing all of them.
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