Year 1992

Welikanda genocide against Muslims

On 29th April 1992, over 400 LTTE terrorists stormed three Muslims villages in Plonnaruwa district namely, Karapola , Alanchipothana and Muthugala and carried out one of the most barbaric genocide against Muslims in the world.

Shortly after midnight the gang of terrorists swooped down on the sleeping villages and carried out a house-to-house massacre killing 130 civilians and injuring over 71 others. Majority of the victims were woman and children. According to the eyewitness accounts, LTTE had used large number of child soldiers in this attack and mainly tasked them to kill women and children with sharp weapons. Several houses were set ablaze by the terrorists with burning the residents alive and most of the other houses were looted after murdering their residents.

In the year 1991, village massacres reduced in numbers as hundreds of thousands of Sinhalese were driven out from their homes by the terrorists. Yet, there were few Muslim villages that did not heed the orders of LTTE, in Polonnaruwa that were also wiped out with this attack.