Year 1986

Mahadivulwewa Village massacre

By the mid 1986 the terrorist group that had started itself as a band of cutthroats and robbers developed itself to a mass murdering organization. The so-called border villages were gradually moving out of the North and East as more and more villages in Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Monaragala districts were also becoming border villages

On 25th May 1986, a group of LTTE terrorists armed with firearms, swords, clubs and knives stormed Mahadivulwewa village in Anuradhapura district during the midnight hours. The terrorists broke into the civilian houses and butchered the sleeping villagers. Children were tortured and chopped while their parents watching, pregnant mothers were ripped their wombs open with swords, and elderly were burnt alive.

Mutilated bodies of 20 civilians including women and children were found. Over 20 housed were set ablaze by the terrorists