The 1989 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 sacred to the Buddhists in Sri Lanka, houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha and is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.[1][2][3] It was attacked on 8 February 1989, allegedly by the armed cadres affiliated to Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka.[4][5][6]
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^"Elephants, acrobats enliven ancient Sri Lankan Buddhist festival". Barefoot SriLanka. daladamaligawa.org. Retrieved 9 April 2012. .. but the temple faced the first attack during the insurrection of the radical Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the 1980s.
^Samarasinghe, Sonali (2 December 2001). "Residence of the Diyawadana Nilame attacked". The Sunday Leader. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
^Karunakharan, P. (28 August 2008). "Main highlight of Lanka's cultural calendar". Daily News. Archived from the original on 16 September 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
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