WASHINGTON: Vigilante groups in Sri Lanka were in some cases, credibly linked to Sri Lankan security forces, U.S. state department has said in its annual report to congress on patterns of global terrorism.
In 1989, the department said, political violence in Sri Lanka reached post-independence highs, with over 8,500 persons killed, majority of them civilians.
The department said, “Tamil militant factions, including the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Maoist Janatha Vimukhti Peramuna (JVP) a Sinhalese group, were reportedly responsible for acts of domestic terrorism during 1989,”
Article extracted from this publication >> May 11, 1990
