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| [[Gonagala massacre]] || 18 September 1999 || Gonagala, [[Ampara District]] || 54 ||<ref name="sunt3">{{cite news | url=http://sundaytimes.lk/990919/frontm.html | title=Pre-dawn horror in Ampara: 54 killed as LTTE unleashed terror on villagers | work=The Sunday Times | date=19 September 1999 | access-date=21 April 2012 | author=Kamalendra, Chris}}</ref> |
| [[Gonagala massacre]] || 18 September 1999 || Gonagala, [[Ampara District]] || 54 ||<ref name="sunt3">{{cite news | url=http://sundaytimes.lk/990919/frontm.html | title=Pre-dawn horror in Ampara: 54 killed as LTTE unleashed terror on villagers | work=The Sunday Times | date=19 September 1999 | access-date=21 April 2012 | author=Kamalendra, Chris}}</ref> |
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| Assassination of [[Gamini Dissanayake]] [[Ossie Abeyagoonasekera]] || 24 October 1994 || Thotalanga, Colombo || 52 ||<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/25/world/latest-killing-of-a-sri-lanka-politician-fits-a-familiar-pattern.html Latest Killing of a Sri Lanka Politician Fits a Familiar Pattern], The New York Times</ref><ref>[http://www.ceylontoday.lk/71-15434-news-detail-gamini-dissanayake-the-last-of-men.html Gamini Dissanayake, the last of men] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626151455/http://www.ceylontoday.lk/71-15434-news-detail-gamini-dissanayake-the-last-of-men.html |date=2015-06-26 }}, Ceylon Today</ref> |
| Assassination of [[Gamini Dissanayake]] [[Ossie Abeyagunasekera]] || 24 October 1994 || Thotalanga, Colombo || 52 ||<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/25/world/latest-killing-of-a-sri-lanka-politician-fits-a-familiar-pattern.html Latest Killing of a Sri Lanka Politician Fits a Familiar Pattern], The New York Times</ref><ref>[http://www.ceylontoday.lk/71-15434-news-detail-gamini-dissanayake-the-last-of-men.html Gamini Dissanayake, the last of men] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626151455/http://www.ceylontoday.lk/71-15434-news-detail-gamini-dissanayake-the-last-of-men.html |date=2015-06-26 }}, Ceylon Today</ref> |
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| Mahakongaskada massacre || 10 October 1988 || [[Medawachchiya]], [[Anuradhapura District]] || 44 ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Year 1988 LTTE Atrocities |url=http://defence.lk/LTTE/atro.asp?id=1988 |website= |date=28 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528015829/http://defence.lk/LTTE/atro.asp?id=1988 |archive-date=28 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |
| Mahakongaskada massacre || 10 October 1988 || [[Medawachchiya]], [[Anuradhapura District]] || 44 ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Year 1988 LTTE Atrocities |url=http://defence.lk/LTTE/atro.asp?id=1988 |website= |date=28 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528015829/http://defence.lk/LTTE/atro.asp?id=1988 |archive-date=28 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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