Massacre in October 1987 during the Sri Lankan Civil War
Jaffna hospital massacre
Location of Sri Lanka
Location
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Date
October 21–22, 1987 (+6 GMT)
Target
Sri Lankan Tamil patients, nurses, doctors and staff of the hospital[1][2]
Attack type
Shooting, grenade explosion[2][3]
Weapons
Firearms, grenades
Deaths
60[4]–70[2]
Injured
50+ (estimated)
Perpetrators
Indian Peace Keeping Force soldiers deployed in Sri Lanka[2][5][6]
The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Peace Keeping Force entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60 and 70 patients and staff.[4] The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,[7] the government of Sri Lanka,[1] and independent observers such as the University Teachers for Human Rights[3] and others[2][5][6][8] have called it a massacre of civilians.
However, the Indian Army maintains that the soldiers were fired upon[9] and the Indian army officer in charge of the military operations, Lt. Gen. Depinder Singh, claimed that these civilians were killed in a crossfire between soldiers and rebels.[10] Soldiers responsible for this massacre were not prosecuted by the Indian government.[3]
^ abDayasri, Gomin (2008-04-26). "Eminent Persons' displayed lack of independence". Ministry of Defense, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2008-12-19. These crimes against humanity include the Mass Murders committed by the IPKF at the Jaffna Hospital on the 20th October 1987 when they entered the hospital and indiscriminately murdered patients, doctors, nurses and attendants by shooting and exploding grenades indiscriminately
^ abcdeKrishna, Sankaran (2005). Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 190–2. ISBN 0-8166-3330-4.
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^ abSomasundaram, Daya; Jamunanantha, CS (2002). de Jong, Joop (ed.). Trauma, War, and Violence: Public Mental Health in Socio-Cultural Context. Springer. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-30646709-7.
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^"Jaffna Hospital massacre". LTTE peace secretariat. 2006-11-22. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
^International Committee of the Fourth International
Fourth International Vol. 15 No. 1 (March 1988), Mass Murder in Jaffna, Rajiv Gandhi’s Dirty War Against Tamil Eelam https://www.wsws.org/en/special/library/fi-15-1/09.html
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