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The following is a list of chronological attacks against civilans and military attributed to the [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers.<ref>{{cite news|first=Rohan |last=Gunaratna |title=Intelligence failures exposed by Tamil Tiger airport attack |date=2001-11-03 |url=http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010903_1_n.shtml |work=Jane's Information Group |access-date=2007-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070303021604/http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010903_1_n.shtml |archive-date=2007-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Consular Information Sheet – Sri Lanka | date=2007-04-11 | publisher=U.S. Department of State | url =https://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1025.html | work =Bureau of Consular Affairs | access-date = 2007-04-27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=Audrey Kurth Cronin |author2=Huda Aden |author3=Adam Frost |author4=Benjamin Jones  |name-list-style=amp | title=CRS Report for Congress, Foreign Terrorist Organizations | date=2004-02-06 | publisher=The Library of Congress | url =http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32223.pdf | work =Bureau of Consular Affairs | access-date = 2007-04-27 }}</ref> The attacks include [[1987 Eastern Province massacres|massacres]], [[Colombo Central Bank bombing|bombings]], robberies, [[Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern province by LTTE|ethnic cleansing]], [[List of military operations of the Sri Lankan Civil War|military battles]] and [[List of people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|assassinations]] of civilian and military targets. The LTTE is a separatist militant group that [[Sri Lankan civil war|fought]] for a separate [[Tamil Eelam|Tamil state]] in the north and east of [[Sri Lanka]] between 1976 and 2009. The rebel group has been banned by 33 countries, including the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Canada]], [[India]], [[Malaysia]], [[Sri Lanka]] and the 27 member nations of the [[European Union]].

In opposition to this list, there is also the [[List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces]].

==Notable and deadliest attacks{{ref|Note1|*}}==
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! width="30%" | Attack !! width="20%" | Date !! width="40%" | Location !! width="10%" | Death toll !! width="5%" | Sources
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| [[1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers]] || 11 June 1990 || [[Eastern Province, Sri Lanka|Eastern Province]] || 600–774 Police officers ||<ref name="lank1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2011/6/67843.html |title=Recalling the saddest day in Lankan Police history |access-date=2011-06-12 |year=2011 |work=Lanka Newspapers |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615103423/http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2011/6/67843.html |archive-date=2011-06-15 }}</ref><ref name="rivira">{{cite web|url=http://www.rivira.lk/2011/06/12/ranabima.htm|title=Killing of 774 policemen|access-date=2011-06-12|year=2011|work=Rivira|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615061339/http://www.rivira.lk/2011/06/12/ranabima.htm|archive-date=2011-06-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Battle of Mullaitivu (1996)]] || 18 July 1996 || [[Northern Province, Sri Lanka|Northern Province]] || 1,498 officers and soldiers [[Killed in action|KIA]] or [[Missing in action|MIA]] (including unknown number of surrendered per the military, 50 police and 80 civilians)  ||<ref name="Hashim">{{cite book |last1=Hashim |first1=Ahmed |title=When Counterinsurgency Wins: Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers |date=2013 |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania Press]] |location=Philadelphia |isbn=978-0-8122-4452-6 |pages=104–105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFHEMaLZx6gC}}</ref><ref name="StateDep1996">{{cite web |title=U.S. Department of State Sri Lanka Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996 |url=https://1997-2001.state.gov/global/human_rights/1996_hrp_report/srilanka.html#:~:text=In%20the%20July%20attack%20on,troops%20who%20attempted%20to%20surrender. |website=state.gov |publisher=US State Department |access-date=23 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="TT150896">{{cite magazine |last1=Sivaram |first1=S. D. |title=Mullaitivu: A Shattering Blow War Strategy |magazine=[[Tamil Times]] |date=15 August 1996 |volume=XV |issue=8 |pages=11–12 |url=http://noolaham.net/project/36/3544/3544.pdf |location=Sutton, U.K. |issn=0266-4488 |access-date=3 September 2011}}</ref><ref name="SR">[http://sundaytimes.lk/961013/sitrep.html Situation Report, By Iqbal Athas]</ref><ref name="SO10032019">{{cite news |last1=Borham |first1=Maneshka |title=Soldiers missing in action: Anguished families still knocking on doors |url=https://archives1.sundayobserver.lk/2019/03/10/news-features/soldiers-missing-action-anguished-families-still-knocking-doors |access-date=2 July 2023 |publisher=Sunday Observer}}</ref>
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| [[1987 Eastern Province massacres]] || 29 September 1987 – 8 October 1987 || [[Eastern Province, Sri Lanka|Eastern Province]] || 200+ ||<ref name="rubin">{{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=Barnett |title=Cycles of Violence: Human Rights in Sri Lanka Since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement |publisher=Human Rights Watch |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=b7F-dUh5_j8C&pg=PA52 |access-date=8 December 2018|isbn=9780938579434 |year=1987 }}</ref>
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| [[Kattankudy mosque massacre]] || 3 August 1990 || [[Kattankudy]], [[Batticaloa District]]  || 147 ||<ref name='xin-8/4/90-mmtt'>
''[[Xinhua]]'', 147 Muslims Massacred by Tamil "Tigers" in Sri Lanka, Colombo, ''August 4, 1990''</ref>
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| [[Anuradhapura massacre]] || 14 May 1985 || [[Anuradhapura]], [[Anuradhapura District]] || 146 ||<ref>
{{cite news | title=Timeline of the Tamil conflict | date=2000-09-04 | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/51435.stm | work =BBC News | access-date = 2007-05-16 }}</ref>
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| [[Aluth Oya massacre|Habarana bus massacre]] || 17 April 1987 || [[Habarana]], [[Anuradhapura District]] || 127 ||<ref name=GOSL>[http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/6bdc202089eb97848025671a00590c8c?OpenDocument Letter sent by the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the Centre for Human Rights], [[Government of Sri Lanka]], 9 August 1994</ref>
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| [[October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka massacres]] || 16 October 1995 || [[Eastern Province, Sri Lanka|Eastern Province]] || 120 ||
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| [[Eravur massacre]] || 11 August 1990 || [[Eravur]], Batticaloa District || 116-173 ||<ref name="india abroad eravur">{{cite news |title=Tamils Suspected in Massacre |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/362647438 |agency=Reuter|access-date=23 February 2021 |publisher=India Abroad |date=17 August 1990|id={{ProQuest|362647438}} }}</ref><ref name='hrw 1991'>{{cite report|title=Human Rights in Sri Lanka: An Update|publisher = Asia Watch|date= 12 March 1991|url=https://www.hrw.org/reports//pdfs/s/srilanka/srilanka913.pdf|access-date=23 February 2021}}</ref>
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| [[Central Bus Station Bombing]] || 21 April 1987 || Pettah, [[Colombo]], [[Colombo District]] || 113 ||<ref name="Reuters2008">{{cite news |title=CHRONOLOGY-Major bombings in Sri Lanka blamed on Tamil Tigers |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP55046/ |access-date=18 April 2024 |work=[[Reuters]] |date=6 October 2008}}</ref>
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| [[Palliyagodella massacre]] || 15 October 1991 || Palliyagodella, [[Polonnaruwa District]] || 109 ||<ref name=GOSL/><ref name=bubblebursts>{{cite web |url=http://www.uthr.org/BP/volume1/Chapter6.htm |title=1987: THE BUBBLE BURSTS, Chapter 6. |access-date=2006-12-31 |work=UTHR(J) }}</ref>
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| [[2006 Digampathana bombing]] || 16 October 2006 || Digampathaha, [[Matale District]] || 99–103 soldiers ||<ref>{{cite news  | title = Analysis: Sri Lanka military setbacks | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6045866.stm | work = [[BBC]] | date = 2006-10-16 | access-date = 2006-11-04 | first=Dumeetha | last=Luthra}}</ref><ref>https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=19928 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
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| [[Central Bank bombing]] || 31 January 1996 || [[Colombo]], [[Colombo District]] || 91 ||<ref name="bbc1"/>
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| Alanchipothana massacre || 29 April 1992|| Alanchipothana, [[Polonnaruwa District]] || 69 ||<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.uthr.org/Reports/Report11/chapter7.htm |title= Massacres In The Polonnaruwa District |year= 2006|publisher= UTHR(J) }}</ref>
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| [[Kurukkalmadam massacre]] || 13 July  1990 || [[Kurukkalmadam]], Batticaloa District || 68-168 ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome to UTHRJ: Report 7, Chapter 2 |url=https://uthr.org/Reports/Report7/chapter2.htm#e |website=uthr.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=FROM BURNING HOUSES TO BURNING BODIES |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ASA3748632021ENGLISH.pdf |website=Amnesty}}</ref><ref>{{cite report|title = Refugee Status Appeals Authority|url=https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/467907292.pdf|date = 19 April 2006}}</ref>
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| [[Kebithigollewa massacre]] || 15 June 2006 || Kebithigollewa, [[Anuradhapura District]] || 66 ||<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5298470.stm |title=Military 'killed Lanka aid staff' |access-date=2006-08-30 |work=BBC News | date=August 30, 2006}}</ref>
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| [[Dehiwala train bombing (1996)]] || 24 July 1996 || [[Dehiwala]], [[Colombo District]] || 64 ||<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E7D71038F937A3575AC0A960958260|title=Tamil Arrested in Sri Lanka Train Bombing|work=The New York Times|date=1996-09-04}}</ref>
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| [[Kanthan Karunai massacre]] || 30 March 1987 || [[Jaffna]], [[Jaffna District]] || 63 ||<ref name="thenewsminute">{{cite web |url= http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/colonel-kittu-ruthless-long-forgotten-ltte-fighter-tamil-movie-wants-celebrate-46663
|title= Colonel Kittu, A long forgotten ruthless leader, a Tamil movie wants to celebrate|date=2016-08-17}}</ref>
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| [[Kent and Dollar Farm massacres]] || 30 November 1984 || [[Mullaitivu District]] || 62 ||<ref name="geno">{{cite news | url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/05/29/fea50.pdf | title=LTTE genocide at Kent and Dollar Farms | work=Daily News | date=29 May 2009 | access-date=21 April 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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| [[JOC bombing]] || 21 June 1991 || Flower Road, [[Colombo]] || 60 ||<ref>{{cite news |title=Sri Lanka Bomb Said to Kill Up to 60 (Published 1991) |work=The New York Times |date=22 June 1991 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629110759/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/22/world/sri-lanka-bomb-said-to-kill-up-to-60.html |archive-date=2023-06-29 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/22/world/sri-lanka-bomb-said-to-kill-up-to-60.html}}</ref>
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| [[Lionair Flight 602]] || 29 September 1998 || off the coast of [[Mannar District]] || 55 ||<ref name="ASN">{{ASN accident|id=19980929-0|type=Criminal Occurrence|access-date=21 April 2012}}</ref>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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| [[Kallarawa massacre]] || 25 May 1995 || [[Kallarawa]], [[Trincomalee District]] || 42 ||<ref name="sunt2">{{cite news | url=http://sundaytimes.lk/981004/news2.html | title=Lighting a candle in the storm | work=The Sunday Times | date=4 October 1998 | access-date=21 April 2012 | author=Kamalendran, Chris}}</ref>
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| [[Aranthalawa Massacre]] || 2 July 1987 || Aranthalawa, [[Ampara District]] || 35 ||<ref name='so-6/3/07-atwe'>{{cite news | title=LTTE's gun culture continues | date=2007-06-03 | url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2007/06/03/main_Editorial.asp | work=The Sunday Observer | access-date=2007-06-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630174939/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2007/06/03/main_Editorial.asp | archive-date=2007-06-30 | url-status=live }}</ref>
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| Erakkandy massacre || 2 July 1997 || Erakkandy, [[Trincomalee District]] || 34 ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Tides Of Violence |url=https://piac.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TIDES-OF-VIOLENCE-FINAL-3-PIAC.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sri lanka Briefly |url=https://srilankabriefly.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/War-Crimes-of-LTTE-1.pdf}}</ref>
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| Bogamuyaya massacre || 23 January 1991 || Bogamuyaya, [[Ampara District]] || 29 ||<ref>{{cite web  |title=WORLD : Rebels Slaughter 29 in Sri Lanka |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-23-mn-817-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=23 January 1991}}</ref>
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| Buttala bus bomb || 16 January 2008 || [[Buttala]], [[Monaragala District]] || 28 ||<ref>{{cite web |last1=correspondent |first1=Randeep Ramesh, South Asia |title=Tamil Tigers kill 28 with bus bomb |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/16/terrorism |website=The Guardian |language=en |date=16 January 2008}}</ref>
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| [[2008 Piliyandala bus bombing]] || 25 April 2008 || [[Piliyandala]], [[Colombo]] || 26 ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Sri Lanka fears more bombings as bus toll hits 26 {{!}} France 24 |url=http://www.france24.com/en/20080426-sri-lanka-fears-more-bombings-bus-toll-hits-26 |date=21 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521041148/http://www.france24.com/en/20080426-sri-lanka-fears-more-bombings-bus-toll-hits-26 |archive-date=21 May 2008 }}</ref>
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| [[2008 Moratuwa bus bombing]] || 	6 June 2008 || Katubedda, [[Moratuwa]] || 23 ||<ref>{{cite news |title=Deadly blasts hit Sri Lanka buses |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7439193.stm |date=6 June 2008}}</ref>
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|  Assassination of [[C. V. Gunaratne]] || 8 June 2000 || [[Ratmalana]], [[Colombo District]] || 22 ||<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/08/srilanka Sri Lanka suicide bomber kills 22], The Guardian</ref><ref>[http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=political/disciplined-and-respected-political-culture-soon-president Disciplined and respected political culture soon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628224334/http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=political%2Fdisciplined-and-respected-political-culture-soon-president |date=2015-06-28 }}, Daily News</ref>
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| [[Air Lanka Flight 512]] || 3 May 1986 || [[Bandaranaike International Airport]], [[Gampaha District]] || 21 ||<ref name="r1">
{{cite news | title =  1986: Bomb kills 21 in Sri Lanka | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/3/newsid_2481000/2481291.stm | work = [[BBC]] | date = 3 May 1986 | access-date = 2008-04-30 }}</ref>
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| [[Havelock Road bombing]]/Assassination of [[Ranjan Wijeratne]]|| 2 March 1991 || Havelock Road, Colombo || 19 ||<ref>[https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/the-assassination-of-ranjan-wijeratne/ The Assassination Of Ranjan Wijeratne], Colombo Telegraph</ref>
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| [[1998 Temple of the Tooth attack]] || 25 January 1998 || [[Temple of the Tooth]], [[Kandy]] || 17 ||<ref name="bbc1">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/50366.stm | title=Eleven die in Sri Lankan temple suicide bomb |work=BBC | date=25 January 1998 | access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="col">{{cite news | url=http://www.colombopage.com/archive_09/January2565223RA.html | title=Religious ceremonies to commemorate the LTTE attack on Temple of tooth in Sri Lanka | work=Colombo Page | date=25 January 2009 | access-date=11 April 2012 | location=Sri Lanka | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093342/http://www.colombopage.com/archive_09/January2565223RA.html | archive-date=2 April 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="nubin">{{cite book | title=Sri Lanka: Current Issues and Historical Background | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Iudi2JJLaUAC | publisher=[[Nova Publishers]] | author=Nubin, Walter | year=2003 | location=New York | page=11 | isbn=978-1-59033-573-4}}</ref>
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| [[Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi]] ||  21 May 1991 || [[Sriperumbudur]], [[Chennai]], in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]] || 15 ||<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5122032.stm Tamil Tiger 'regret' over Gandhi], BBC</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2504000/2504739.stm 1991: Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv Gandhi], BBC</ref>
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| [[1997 Colombo World Trade Centre bombing]] ||  15 October 1997 || [[Colombo]], [[Colombo District]] || 15 ||<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/british-tourists-wounded-in-tamil-tiger-bomb-blast-1236155.html British tourists wounded in Tamil Tiger bomb blast]</ref>
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| [[2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs]] || 6 January 2007 || [[Hikkaduwa]], [[Galle District]] || 15 ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Gulfnews: Bus bomb kills 15 in southern Sri Lanka |url=http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/01/07/10095117.html |website= |date=29 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929130937/http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/01/07/10095117.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Akuressa suicide bombing]] || 10 March 2009 || [[Akuressa]], [[Matara District]] || 14 ||<ref>{{cite news |title=Sri Lanka 'suicide bomb kills 14' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7934095.stm |date=10 March 2009}}</ref>
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| Assassination of [[Ranasinghe Premadasa]] ||  1 May 1993 || Armour Street, [[Colombo]] || 11 ||<ref>{{cite news |title=Suicide Bomber Kills President of Sri Lanka (Published 1993) |work=The New York Times |date=2 May 1993 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409031717/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/02/world/suicide-bomber-kills-president-of-sri-lanka.html?pagewanted=1 |archive-date=2023-04-09 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/02/world/suicide-bomber-kills-president-of-sri-lanka.html?pagewanted=1 |last1=Gargan |first1=Edward A. }}</ref><ref>[http://www.cfr.org/separatist-terrorism/liberation-tigers-tamil-eelam-aka-tamil-tigers-sri-lanka-separatists/p9242 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (aka Tamil Tigers) (Sri Lanka, separatists)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626112457/http://www.cfr.org/separatist-terrorism/liberation-tigers-tamil-eelam-aka-tamil-tigers-sri-lanka-separatists/p9242 |date=26 June 2015 }}, Council on Foreign Relations</ref>
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| [[Fort railway station bombing]] ||  3 February 2008 || [[Fort railway station]], [[Colombo]] || 11 ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Suicide Bomb Hits Sri Lankan Rail Station  |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/suicide-bomb-hits-sri-lankan-rail-station/ |website= [[CBS News]]|date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924160619/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/suicide-bomb-hits-sri-lankan-rail-station/ |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[1984 Kokkilai massacre (LTTE)|Kokilai massacre]] || 1 December 1984 || [[Kokilai]], [[Mullaitivu District]] || 11 ||
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| [[Gomarankadawala massacre]] || 23 April 2006 || Gomarankadawala, [[Trincomalee District]] || 6 ||<ref name="sunt">{{cite news | url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/060430/index.html | title=Gomarankadawala: "We need more security say villagers | work=The Sunday Times | date=30 April 2006 | access-date=21 April 2012 | author=Gunananda, A.T.M.}}</ref>
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| [[2009 suicide air raid on Colombo]] || 20 February 2009 || [[Colombo]], [[Colombo District]] || 2 LTTE pilots ||<ref name='australian-nottamed'>{{cite news | publisher = The Australian | title = Kamikaze raid shows the Tamil Tigers have not been tamed | url = http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25091354-25837,00.html | date = 2009-09-22 | access-date = 2009-02-23 | first = Amanda | last = Hodge | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090508100212/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25091354-25837,00.html | archive-date = 2009-05-08 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
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=== Notes ===

: *.{{Note|Note1}}This is not the complete list, refer to the attacks by decades for a complete list of attacks

==Attacks by decade==
Below are the deadliest attacks from each decade.

===1970s===
{{Main article|List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 1970s}}

;1979
{| class="wikitable" style="width:75%;"
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! width="10%" | Date !! width="40%" | Attack !! width="15%" | Location !! width="5%"| Sinhalese !! width="5%"| Tamils !! width="5%"| Muslims !! width="5%" | Death toll !! width="5%" | Sources
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| || S. A. Emmanuel of Chankanai, Thaadi Thangarajah of Kondavil, A. Krishnagol of Velvettiturai, T. Poopalasingham of Chunnakam and A. Sivarajah of Thondamannar are executed by the LTTE for providing evidence against them to the police. || [[Jaffna District]]||||5||||5||<ref name="carneval">{{cite book |last= Pathak |first= Saroj |title= War Or Peace in Sri Lanka |publisher=Popular Prakshan |date=January 2005 |isbn= 978-81-7991-199-0}}</ref>
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| || PC Gnanasambandan, PC Sivanesan, Inspector Guruswamy, S. Swarnarajah and his wife are executed by the LTTE.|| [[Jaffna District]]||||5||||5||<ref name="carneval"/>
|-
|}

===1980s===
{{Main article|List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 1980s}}

;1985
{| class="wikitable" style="width:75%;"
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! width="10%" | Date !! width="40%" | Attack !! width="15%" | Location !! width="5%"| Sinhalese !! width="5%"| Tamils !! width="5%"| Muslims !! width="5%" | Death toll !! width="5%" | Sources
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| 14 May || '''[[Anuradhapura massacre]]''': LTTE gunmen shoot dead 146 Sinhalese civilians and injure 85 others as they were praying at [[Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi]], a sacred Buddhist shrine in [[Anuradhapura]]. ||[[Anuradhapura]], [[Anuradhapura District]]||146|| || ||146||<ref name="BBC, Tamil timeline">
{{cite news |title=Timeline of the Tamil conflict |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/51435.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2000-09-04 |access-date=2007-12-15}}
</ref>
|}

===1990s===
{{Main article|List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 1990s}}

;1990
{| class="wikitable" style="width:75%;"
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! width="10%" | Date !! width="40%" | Attack !! width="15%" | Location !! width="5%"| Sinhalese !! width="5%"| Tamils !! width="5%"| Muslims !! width="5%" | Death toll !! width="5%" | Sources
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| 11 June || '''[[1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers]]''': Over 600 unarmed police officers are shot dead by the LTTE in Police Stations across eastern Sri Lanka || [[Eastern Province, Sri Lanka|Eastern Province]] || || || || 600–774 ||<ref name="lank1"/><ref name="rivira"/><ref name="US State Department">
{{cite news|url=http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/erc/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_sasia/SriLanka.html |title=Sri Lanka Human Rights Practices, 1995 |work=US State Department |publisher=[[US State Department]] |date=March 1996 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050320003919/http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_sasia/SriLanka.html |archive-date=2005-03-20 }}</ref>
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| 3 August || '''[[Kattankudy mosque massacre]]''': 147 Muslim males were gunned down in two mosque during evening prayers by the LTTE. || [[Kattankudy]] ||  || || 147 || 147 || <ref name='xin-8/3/90-mmtt'>''[[Xinhua]]'', 147 Muslims Massacred by Tamil "Tigers" in Sri Lanka, Colombo, ''August 3, 1990''</ref>
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| 11 August || '''[[1990 Eravur massacre]]''': Dozens of Muslim villagers killed by the LTTE in Eravur. || [[Eravur]] || || || 116-173 || 116-173 || <ref name="india abroad eravur"/><ref name="vancouver sun eravur">{{cite news |last1=Ahamath |first1=Anosh |title='Give Arms or Cyanide': Muslims beg for protection after massacre in Sri Lanka |url=http://proquest.com/docview/243520425?pq-origsite=primo |access-date=23 February 2021 |publisher=The Vancouver Sun |date=14 August 1990}}</ref><ref name="nyt eravur">{{cite news|title=Rebels Reported to Kill 119 in Sri Lanka |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/13/world/rebels-reported-to-kill-119-in-sri-lanka.html |access-date=9 February 2021 |agency=Associated Press |work=The New York Times|date = 13 August 1990}}</ref>
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===2000s===
{{Main article|List of attacks attributed to the LTTE, 2000s}}

;2006
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| 16 October || '''[[2006 Digampathana bombing]]''': A suicide bomber in a truck kills 103 [[Sri Lanka Navy]] sailors on buses going on, or returning from, leave at a transit point and wounds over 150 other sailors. Several civilians may also have died. || Digampathana, [[North Central Province, Sri Lanka|North Central Province]] || 103 || || || 103 ||<ref name="usatoday1">USA Today: [https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-10-17-sri-lanka_x.htm?csp=34 Fighter jets pound suspected rebel camp after suicide bombing kills 95 sailors], October 17, 2006</ref>
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==Attacks by type==

===Suicide bombings===
{{Main article|Suicide bombings in Sri Lanka}}

===Assassinations===
{{Main article|List of people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam}}

==See also==
* [[List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces]]
* [[List of people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]]

==References==
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{{Sri Lankan Civil War}}
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