List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces information
The following is a list of attacks on civilians attributed to armed groups under the control of the Sri Lankan government, which includes the Sri Lankan Army, Sri Lankan Navy, Sri Lankan Air Force, Sri Lankan Police Service, state-backed mobs and paramilitary groups (Home Guards, EPDP, PLOTE, TMVP, Ukussa, Black Cats etc.). This list does not contain assassinations which are listed in a separate article.
The Sri Lankan Armed Forces which was almost exclusively made up of Sinhalese[1][2][3][4] ethnicity during 30 year old Sri Lankan Civil War and the two JVP insurrections, has engaged in several counts of violence against civilians including numerous instances of civilian massacres, ethnic cleansing, pogroms, forced disappearances, sexual violence, destruction of property and assassination of civil leaders.[5] Incidents of torture, extra judicial killings and sexual violence have also persisted in the post war period especially against Tamils and other ethnic and sexual minorities.[6][7][8][9]
Sri Lanka has also experienced attacks against civilians attributed to non state actors, such as the List of attacks attributed to the LTTE and the List of attacks on civilians attributed to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.
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^Kenneth Bus. "Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka". Retrieved 4 October 2023.
^"Sri Lanka - Ethnic Composition of the Armed Forces". www.country-data.com. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
^Thangavelu, V. "At Manal Aru ( Weli Oya ) Sinhalese State Ethnically Cleansed Tamils". Nakkeran. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^"Genocide Against Tamil People: Massacres, Pogroms, Destruction of Property, Sexual Violence and Assassinations of Civil Society Leaders" (PDF). People's Tribunal on Sri Lanka (PTSL). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^"Sri Lanka: Forced Anal Exams in Homosexuality Prosecutions". Human Rights Watch. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^Frances Harrison (8 September 2021). "Alive from the abyss: continuing abductions and torture in Sri Lanka". Journalists for democracy in Sri Lanka. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
^"Press Release: Sri Lankan security forces torturing and raping young Tamils" (PDF). International Truth and Justice Project. 8 September 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
^Srinivasan, Meera (5 August 2013). "Three killed as Sri Lankan Army clamps down on protesters". The Hindu.
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