Incident
On October 21, at Boatte, the LTTE had intruded the village at around 1 a.m. and hacked to death the sleeping villagers. [6] [7] Sinhalese witnesses said that the LTTE was accompanied by Tamil villagers who had pointed out Sinhalese homes. The militants knocked on the doors of Sinhalese houses and then broke in. Most Sinhalese managed to escape to the jungle, but those who did not were shot or hacked to death. After this, the LTTE looted the houses. A Mahaweli official claimed that neither the army nor homeguards had engaged the assailants. A fact-finding mission by the International Center for Ethnic Studies observed that, even though Tamil and Sinhalese houses were side-by-side, only the latter were targeted. The LTTE left at around 2:30 a.m. with the Tamil villagers. The Mahaweli Authority stated that two women were raped and 29 Tamil families had fled into the jungle. [7] Approximately 26 Sinhalese and 10 Tamils were killed. Another two villages were attacked that day, and in total, 71 were killed. [6]
On the same day, the LTTE attacked Padaviya in the Anuradhapura District and Mangalagama in the Amparai District, killing 19 and 16 civilians respectively. [8]
The next evening, the 50 LTTE cadres invaded Kotiyagala and massacred 19 villagers. One boy was beheaded and another had his arms dismembered. [6]
By the end of the violence, 120 Sinhalese civilians were killed. Many of the victims were hacked to death with swords and axes. According to the U.S. Department of State, the LTTE also raped a number of women as a terror tactic. [2] Even though there had been armed home guards in the villages, none were killed. [8]
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