Memorial of Aranthalawa Massacre Memorial of Aranthalawa Massacre , also known as Monument of Aranthalawa Buddhist monks (Sinhala: අරංතලාව භික්ෂු ඝාතන ස්මාරකය), is a memorial site situated in the village of Aranthalawa in Ampara District, Sri Lanka. It has been built to commemorate the killing of thirty-one Buddhist monks and three civilians in the village of Aranthalawa on 2 June 1987, by the cadres of "Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam" (LTTE), a Tamil secessionist group designated as a terrorist organization by a number of countries including India, the United States and the European Union (DeVotta, 2007; McCargo & Senaratne, 2020). The "Aranthalawa massacre", as this incident came to be known, is considered an event of violence that made clear the LTTE's capacity for ruthless action (Das et al., 2000).
Buddhist monks of the Theravada tradition are incapable of defending themselves. Therefore, the harming of monks is considered to be one of the great offences in Buddhism. The incident
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